“The White Ribbon,” writer/director Michael Haneke’s dark drama about a village of vicious adults and possibly homicidal children in pre-World Word I Germany, won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last May and was on many film critics’ “Best of” lists. Much of the credit for the film’s stark, emotionally-charged look goes to Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger, a frequent Haneke collaborator and recent nominee by the American Society of Cinematographers for outstanding achievement in a feature film for 2009 for his work on “The White Ribbon.” Speakeasy recently spoke to Berger about the film.

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