视频简介
影片描述了一种反抗和犯罪的幻想、一种冲破束缚和摧毁一切的渴望。导演Herzog创造了一个全部由侏儒组成的奇异的革命世界，每个居民都是侏儒，当他们的朋友被富有的当权者挟持为人质时，大家决定要解救他，决定要反抗这个体制。随着时间的推进，整个行动从开始的解救行动渐渐变得混乱和暴力。看色情画报、放火、打坏东西、折磨动物，甚至把一辆汽车推入悬崖。随着侏儒们愤怒的大破坏和挂在脸上庆祝的微笑以及不停的大笑，奏起了非洲部落的音乐，映象奇异美丽之极……。American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。
