Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.
The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer.
The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。在美丽的雪原阿拉斯加,艾吉斯石油公司的钻机破坏了爱斯基摩人的宁静生活。艾吉斯石油公司的行动破坏了当地的环境,受到当地爱斯基摩人的抗争。但政府部门却由于被石油公司收买而一味偏袒勘探队的所作所为,使环境受到了极大的破坏。
石油公司的行径也招致了勘探队中一些正直人们的不满,灭火专家塔夫脱也是其中之一。原先只管工作的他被爱斯基摩少女玛苏的言行所感动。眼见大自然受到破坏,塔夫脱的内心受到极大的震撼。
公司总裁詹宁斯等人正为了获取更多的暴利而扩大采油能力。这样做会大规模地毁坏这里的自然环境。为了除掉障碍,他设计想杀死塔夫脱,并派人追杀他。受伤的塔夫脱被玛苏等爱斯基摩人所救。在与爱斯基摩人的相处中,塔夫脱深深感受到了大自然的优美。他决心捍卫这美丽的大地。
塔夫脱拿起了武器。在巨大的钻井平台中,他与詹宁斯手下的杀手们展开了一番激战。经过了一场激烈的较量,塔夫脱终于炸毁了钻井平台,粉碎了詹宁斯的罪恶计划。。