Behind the unique lighting approach of the Oscar nominated The White Ribbon with Christian Berger, AAC. By Bob Fisher

Christian Berger, AAC earned a 2009 Academy Award nomination and claimed top honors in the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards competition for The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band – Eine Deutsche Kindergeschichte). It was the first time that a black-and-white film with English subtitles has been nominated for both Oscar and ASC Awards for cinematography.

In The White Ribbon, director Michael Haneke (Caché, Funny Games) transports audiences to Germany in 1914, where a mysterious series of brutal acts occurs in a small village. A teacher at the village school is trying to understand what is motivating the brutality and what lessons she should be teaching her students. The unspoken subtext is that the audience is previewing the birth of Nazism.

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