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.。明末清初，乱世纷争。天启帝的太子朱慈燃从襁褓中便流落民间。天启7年，天启帝暴毙。同年，其弟信王朱由检继位，改年号崇祯，自崇祯元年起明王朝烽烟四起，闯王李自成，后金努尔哈赤纷纷起兵与明王朝分庭抗礼，崇祯帝一败涂地。流离失所的皇长子朱慈燃成为各政派系争夺的对象.为保太子平安，明朝忠臣冷延泉在民间寻回太子，并将其安排在灵岩寺假意出家为僧，不曾想风声走漏，已归顺清王朝的杭州织造局掌印大太监刘明喜带着大批锦衣卫杀上了灵岩寺，此后汉阳城左家军，大顺李自成亦是蠢蠢欲动。
