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.。女绑架者 (1990)故事梗概七名歹徒在残害了揭发他们罪行的大队支部书记和队长两家人性命后,自知罪恶深重,法网难逃,在主犯张三江提议下,决定集体引爆自杀,以逃避法律制裁。事件发生后,公安机关对引爆现场进行实地勘察,确认七名犯罪分子全部自毙。但事隔不久,在一列飞驶的列车上,两名新闻记者无意中发现了曾被广播、电视报道过的已“自毙”的凶杀主犯张三江。为了进一步弄清事实真相,他们偷拍了这位神秘旅客的照片,并连夜送往公安机关。原来,张三江欺骗了六名同伙,在自杀时用的炸药包上做了手脚。深夜,他来到同伙老板哥的家中,老板哥和一伙小兄弟既惊又喜,他们妄图重整旗鼓。张三江找到他的旧相好吴梦梦。吴梦梦曾是一个纯情少女,但中学时代遭人奸污后,自暴自弃,整日与张三江一伙鬼混。公安机关发现张三江仍逍遥法外,立即下令通缉。张三江自知性命难保,便寻机窃得国家机密文件准备越境潜逃...。