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Of Course I Am A Child Of European Culture. There Are A Number Of Great Directors From Which I Learned, But There Is Nobody In Particular I Got Inspired From.

The Film [the White Ribbon] Does Try To Use German Fascism As An Example, But Not Specifically Fascism... The Results Of German Fascism. It Shows How People Are Prepared Or Indoctrinated For An Ideology... People Who Are Already In A State Of Repression Who Have Been Humiliated By Society And Who Clasp At A Straw That's Offered To Them. And How That's Then Developed Into A Form Of Indoctrination.

When Ideas Lead To Ideology, That's A Very Dangerous Thing. Ideology Then Leads To Creating The Image Of An Enemy, And It Leads To The Murder And Massacre.

In Terms Of Cinema And Filmmaking, There Are Certainly The Unexpected Gifts That The Actors Bestow On You. Film Is Always A Question Of Compromises With Respect To What You Originally Intended.

Because In The Feudal System Of That Period At Least 80% Of People Lived In Villages, So It's Very Simple To Get A Cross-section Of Society In A Single Village. You Get The Microcosm Of The Social Macrocosm.