简介：艾格尼丝（哈里特·安德森 Harriet Andersson饰）、玛丽亚（丽芙·乌曼 Liv Ullmann饰）和卡琳（英格里德·图林 Ingrid Thulin饰）虽然是三姊妹，各人内心却有着积重难返的隔膜和疏离。艾格尼丝身患绝症，生命将近，守护在她身边的是女仆安娜。艾格尼丝没有得到过母亲完整的爱，死前妄想让关系紧张的姐妹变得珍爱彼此，却一再事与愿违。 玛丽亚是最得母亲宠爱的孩子，因此遭到姐妹的嫉妒。她的感情生活处理的一塌糊涂，在丈夫和情人之间徘徊周旋。她对爱越是拥有，就越是贪婪。 卡琳的生活更是充满压抑。和丈夫的关系陷入僵局，令她沉沦于自虐。 和好的愿望太过遥远，她们想摆脱生活的阴影，重新拉近彼此的心，却发现隔膜似乎不可打破。
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.
简介：波兰华沙有一个剧团，其中有一名演员Bronski（Tom Dugan 饰）极其擅长模仿德国纳粹领袖希特勒。Maria Tura（卡洛·朗白 Carole Lombard 饰）和Joseph Tura（杰克·本尼 Jack Benny 饰）是剧团里的一对夫妻，剧团最近正在上演《哈姆雷特》。演出间隙，Maria收到了一束鲜花，来自一个年轻的飞行员Stanislav Sobinski（罗伯特·斯塔克 Robert Stack 饰），趁着Joseph在舞台上念著名台词“to be or not to be”的时候，她安排Sobinski进了后台，两人情愫暗生。然而不久后，纳粹侵略波兰，Sobinski只能前往作战。Sobinski所在队伍的领导是Siletsky教授，Sobinski想让Siletsky帮忙带封信给Maria，然而Siletsky却连著名女演员Maria都不认识，于是Sobinski开始对Siletsky产生了怀疑。Sobinski为了追踪Siletsky又回到华沙。而另一方面，Maria却被两个纳粹士兵带去见Siletsky，Siletsky对Maria也是心生爱慕，更希望Maria成为纳粹在波兰的间谍。Maria借故逃回家，却在家中意外的碰到了Sobinski和她的丈夫Josef，这段三角关系该如何收场，他们又要如何联手对抗纳粹？