Storyline

From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.

Plot Keywords

year 1914, sexual abuse, repression, fatal accident, patriarchy, patriarch, verbal abuse, widower, father daughter incest, rural setting, missing child, death of wife, manor house, brutality, teenage girl, church choir, classroom, evil child, farm worker, father son relationship

Short Review

Suffice it to say that I don't understand the rave reviews that this picture received, and I was not a happy camper when I left the theater.

Trailer

Streaming Service

1. Amazon Video : From $2.99 to rent, From $12.99 to buy

2. Apple iTunes : Track Price: 12.99, Track Rental Price: 3.99, Collection Price: 12.99, Track Hd Price: 12.99, Track Hd Rental Price: 3.99, Collection Hd Price: 12.99

3. Vudu : [SD - Buy: 13.99, Rent: 2.99] [HDX - Buy: 13.99, Rent: 3.99]

4. Microsoft Store : Rent From $3.99