Original: Dass weisse band
Over a northern German village is iced over on a sweltering summer day.
Upstairs lives the baron in his castle, downstairs the people, on the stairs pastor, doctor, steward.
The village suffers from a dreary patriarchal terror.
The vicar torments and humiliates the children and crushes them under a sense of guilt.
The souls of the perpetrators of violence never open up.
They act as rigid autocrats, keeping the village in line through guilt, shame and neatness.
Among the children, their frustrations find an outlet in sneaky reprisals.
The baroness does not last in this place forgiven by "malice, jealousy, stupidity and rudeness.
A budding Nazi generation.
It is about perverted idealism, humiliation and repression as a universal breeding ground for terror.
I.t.t. Abundance, indulgence and affirmation.