Katha at 2016-06-01 06:19:14:
64. SCHOOL. INT/DAY ***
CORRIDOR.
Marie, Martin, Paul, Georg, and a couple of other children are waiting at the classroom door. They remain silent. They're listening.
NARRATOR: After this intricate atrocity committed on the retarded boy, even the Baron was finally convinced that it would be more intelligent to call upon the professional help of the county’s police force.
So a few days later a couple of plainclothes policemen arrived and, after a visit to the several of the crime scenes, started to ask in various homes if anyone had noticed anything suspicious.
CLASSROOM
The two detectives question Liesl in the presence of the schoolteacher and become more and more aggressive. Liesl ends up crying.
NARRATOR: After learning of Hansi’s torture, I didn’t think at first of what Liesl had told me. When it came back to my mind, I at first hesitated to tell the authorities about it. Because of such an absurd coincidence, I didn’t want to jeopardize the reputation and inner peace of the steward’s family.
But when I heard that Hansi might loose his eyesight because of his injuries, one afternoon I made Liesl come to school and tell the police officers about her dream.
FIRST POLICE OFFICER: ...Thank God, we’re not as stupid as you might think.
LIESL (crying, desperate): But I only dreamt it.
PAUSE. The officers exchange an impatient look with the schoolteacher, who himself doesn't really know what to think of Liesl’s story. He looks at her thoughtfully. The police officer turns to the girl again:
FIRST POLICE OFFICER: Now listen carefully! I’ll give you a last chance: you tell me, who told you about the plan to torture the boy, and we won’t tell anybody who told us. All right?
Liesl shakes her head desperately, crying again. The police officer looks at the schoolteacher. The latter doubts whether he should speak up. He feels sorry for the girl. Finally, he says:
SCHOOLTEACHER: She’s already dreamed of something that has come true.
FIRST POLICE OFFICER (ironic): Is that so? And what was it, if I may ask?
SCHOOLTEACHER (wanting to spare her talking about it): Something that happened in her family.
FIRST POLICE OFFICER (just as before): I see. Something to do with her family. And have you checked if it was true?
SCHOOLTEACHER (irritated): No.
The police officer looks at him, grunts with disdain, and turns to his colleague:
FIRST POLICE OFFICER (scornfully): Well, all that may be true. Maybe we’re really dealing here with an authentic clairvoyant, and we don’t realize how lucky we are. Maybe we only need to ask her, who’s behind all this. The we send her to bed, she dreams a bit, and tomorrow she tells us who did it. How about that? Everything’s possible, isn’t it?
Suddenly, he yells at the girl:
Stop crying!
Liesl jumps up with fear. The police officer stands right in front of her:
Your deceitful whining won't work with me. I’ve got other ways to make you talk. I don’t believe in witches and magicians, let alone that a chubby little girl like you has supernatural hallucinations. Therefore you'd better get used to the idea of telling the truth, because you won’t bet rid of me until you've come clean. Is that clear? All right, and now we’re going to visit your parents to see what they think of your version of the story.
He pulls the girl to her feet. She's thoroughly intimidated, and sniffles faintly. Then he leads her toward the door, at the same time turning to the schoolteacher:
I'd be grateful if you came too.
The schoolteacher finds the policeman’s behavior toward the child exaggeratedly aggressive, but he follows reluctantly:
SCHOOLTEACHER: Of course.
The police officer opens the door to the
CORRIDOR
and almost bumps into a group of pupils that have assembled there.
FIRST POLICE OFFICER: Oooops! What do we have here?
MARIE (kindly): Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Sir.
CHILDREN (as before): Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Sir.
Obviously the schoolteacher didn’t expect them, but doesn't want to show it in front of the police.
SCHOOLTEACHER: Good afternoon.
FIRST POLICE OFFICER: Why are you eavesdropping?
MARIE (politely): We saw from outside that the schoolteacher was having visitors. We didn’t want to intrude. We were just waiting to talk to the schoolteacher.
PAUSE. The police officer looks at the schoolteacher:
SCHOOLTEACHER: What do you want?
MARIE (as if she was too shy to talk in front of strangers: We wanted to ask you something about Hansi.
Again, the police officer looks at the schoolteacher.
SCHOOLTEACHER: What is it?
MARIE (hesitates a moment, then "screws up her courage" and asks): We heard he isn't well. We just wanted to ask if we could be of any help.
— The White Ribbon (2009), written by Michael Haneke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ6tfWr891o
Trivia: Most of the adults are not given names in the film, instead being called Pastor, Baron, Steward, etc. This includes the narrator, who is only known as The School Teacher.
Dialogue on Dialogue: Though the schoolteacher narrates the story and it‘s his story, there is hardly any scene taking place within the class room. This is one of the few. During the whole movie the teacher tries to find out, what is going on, who did all this violent deeds. He acts more or less like a detective but he acts more kindly than the police officer‘s within this scene. Also his status changes, it‘s lower than the policeman. Though he suspects some of children of the violent deeds, he protects them from the policeman, at least as much as he can. But the whole system of the village is bad - it cannot be changed by a single person.
You can also take a look at the script form, which uses the action lines sometimes to introduce dialogue.