Makes Bergman look like a Disney cartoon : The White Ribbon

Haneke's (sp?) "The White Ribbon" is a totally unusual and completely engrossing movie, even at nearly 2.5 hours, and I'm going to give a lot away so if you haven't seen it, do so before reading this any further. It's a movie in which evil doings permeate a small village in early 20th-century Austria (I think, maybe Germany) - the village doctor badly injured when someone sets up a tripwire for his horse, a boy abducted and abused, a boy with Downs severely beaten, a man hangs himself, a woman falls through floorboards to her death, an angry field hand destroys crops, a girl mutilates a pet bird, and so forth. There are implications that these evens are caused by one person, and as the movie progresses just about everyone in the village is suspect: kids are strange and mean, as in say Lord of the Flies or any of the movies about possession, the minister is a martinet and totally cruel to his children, the doctor is an embittered horrible soul, the baron is mean and a martinet, and so forth. Ultimately, it is clear that no single person could have done all these things, and you suddenly (or maybe gradually) realize that the whole village is sick and capable of any sort of atrocity - and all are responsible - it's a geopolitical allegory, without the allegorical trappings. Beautiful to watch in a start and mysterious way (it's in b/w), and some of the scenes of nastiness and marital strife and verbal cruelty are painful to watch and powerful and make Bergman look like a Disney cartoon.