The film, subtitled "A German Children's Story," tells of a disturbing series of violence in a small, Protestant village in northern Germany on the eve of the First World War. The strange accidents in the village gradually take on the character of ritual punishments, and the question of who and why eventually calls the entire community into question.
Text source: PM Staatstheater Darmstadt
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