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Punishment and Crime | 61www.jrfm.eu 2018, 4/1, 47–61 of kindness, the works of mercy that remain unrewarded, unbalanced. Those moments of compassion that the characters perform, a kind gesture, a subtle touch, remain unanswered; they have no implications for the logic of events, and just because of that they are what matters, and what remains. Maybe our belief in a Just World is shattered through this film, but belief in the power of kindness is restored. That belief helps us endure this film. But it brings only small relief after a prolonged stay in the Unjust World. BIBLIOGRAPHY Blumenthal-Barby, Martin, 2014, The Surveillant Gaze. Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, October Magazine 147, 95–116. Bordwell, David, 1985, Narration in the Fiction Film, London: Routledge. Breger, Claudia, 2016, Cruel Attachments, Tender Counterpoints. Configuring the Collective in Mi- chael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, Discourse 38, 2, 142–172. Davie, Grace, 2013, The Sociology of Religion. A Critical Agenda. Los Angeles: Sage, 2nd ed. Lerner, Melvin J., 1980, The Belief in a Just World. A Fundamental Illusion, New York: Plenum. Niven, Kumar/Swiatek, Lucyna, 2012, Representations of New Terror: “Autoanomie” in the Films of Michael Haneke, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48, 3, 311–321. Piaget, Jean, 1948, The Moral Judgment of the Child. Glencoe: Free Press. Smith, Murray, 1995, Engaging Characters. Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Stewart, Garrett, 2010, Pre-War Trauma. Haneke’s The White Ribbon, Film Quarterly 63, 4, 40–47. Van der Pol, Gerwin, 2015, Spectator’s Trust as an Indicator of Film Authorship. Is Vinterberg a Film Auteur?, Studies in European Cinema 12, 1, 19–34. Williams, James S., 2010, Aberrations of Beauty. Violence and Cinematic Resistance in Haneke’s The White Ribbon, Film Quarterly 63, 4, 48–55. FILMOGRAPHY Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (Even Dwarfs started small, Werner Herzog, DE 1970). Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, DE/AT/FR/IT, 2009). Die Siebtelbauern (The inheritors, Stefan Ruzowitzky, AT/DE 1998). Dogville (Lars von Trier, NL/DK/UK/FR/FI/SE/DE/ IT/NO 2003). The Baby of Macon (Peter Greenaway, NL/FR/UK/DE 1993).