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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The Pastor asks one of his sons if he masturbates. When the son admits that he does, the father has his hands tied to his bed at night.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Before beginning his tale, the school teacher [[LampshadeHanging admits]] that he doesn't know the full story and that some parts of his story consist of rumors sourced from other villagers, hence why some parts of the film are viewed from the other villagers' perspectives.

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* UnreliableNarrator: Before beginning his tale, the school teacher [[LampshadeHanging admits]] that he doesn't know the full story and that some parts of his story consist of rumors sourced from other villagers, hence why some parts of the film are viewed [[ThirdPersonFlashback from the other villagers' perspectives.perspectives]].

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* SpiritualSuccessor: Whoever conceived this film must have been a reader of the Swiss psychologist Alice Miller, whose 1980 book ''Am Anfang war Erziehung'' (in English ''For Your Own Good'') paints a detailed account of the kind of brutal, humiliating, authoritarian approach to parenting portrayed in this film as it was historically promoted and practiced in Germany, and theorizes that exposure to this over generations led to German society idolizing a dictator like Hitler and carrying out his orders to murder millions.



* UnreliableNarrator: Possibly.

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* UnreliableNarrator: Possibly.Before beginning his tale, the school teacher [[LampshadeHanging admits]] that he doesn't know the full story and that some parts of his story consist of rumors sourced from other villagers, hence why some parts of the film are viewed from the other villagers' perspectives.

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* DrivenToSuicide: A peasant hangs himself, probably because his family is in financial trouble. The baron fired the whole family after the peasant's son destroyed the cabbages.

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* DrivenToSuicide: A peasant Felder, a peasant, hangs himself, probably because his family is in financial trouble. The baron fired the whole family after the peasant's Felder's son destroyed the cabbages.


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* ThatLiarLies: The baron asks the baroness if she slept with the man she met in Italy. She answers that she did not. The baron tells her that she is a liar.

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* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: The sentence is uttered by one of the policemen who question Erna about her alleged prophetic dreams.

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