视频简介
The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。早在三千六百多年前，曾经居住在中原地区的火神祝融之后遭到商王朝的驱逐，于是举族南迁，历经千辛万苦，总算在南方潮湿腥热的蛮夷地带落下脚跟。他们给自己命名为“楚人”，虽然身在边陲，却始终怀有重返中原的念头。楚人首领鬻熊协助周王朝推翻商纣的统治，然而并未得到应有的尊重和分封，周昭王的南巡更令他们对天子的期望彻底破灭。以熊渠、熊通、楚庄王等有为帝王为代表，楚人开始尝试向中原扩张。侵随战争、齐桓公来伐、城濮之战、吴楚之战。数百年的残酷战争锻炼着楚人铁一般的意志，八百年的基业逐渐走向繁荣，也走向了衰落和灭亡。 本片根据大量史料记载和出土文物为观众再现了楚王国波澜壮阔的历史。。一位充满热情却缺乏天赋的艺术家从当地博物馆偷走了一幅画，随后卷入了现代史上最大的艺术品盗窃案。灵感来自真实事件。。
