The film starts with the local doctor and his horse trip over a piece of string tied across the road. A series of strange events continue to happen in the rural village of pre world war 1 Germany were the film is set.The wife of a farmer is killed when she falls out of the barn door,a young boy is beaten up and tied upside down,a barn is set on fire,a mentally retarded boy is blinded in a fierce assault..The narrator in the film who happens to be the school teacher falls for a young nanny who works for the village Baron. It is a patriarchal society in which repressive and puritanical rules are rigidly enforced, everyone knows their place and, if they forget, the club of religion is used to make sure that they remember. In the meantime, acts of cruelty toward women and children are kept secret.The Pastor physically punishes his children for the slightest of mistakes,even he tied the hands of his son so that he could not masturbate.The highly "respected" doctor sexually abuses even his own daughter.Is the strange things happening, the fight back of those young children against all the abuses..May be the film doesn't give the proper answer,but can always find an answer for yourself...
Hard to watch but is very good..8.5/10
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