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.。当你发现你的朋友有罪,你是大义灭亲还是姑息放纵?今年奥斯卡最佳影片《聚焦》讲述了“聚焦”小组揭露天主教性侵儿童丑闻的故事。无独有偶,这部德国版“聚焦”再度把牧师娈童话题置于台面。有别于《聚焦》一层层抽丝剥茧的揭露真相,通过神父视角展现各方势力交织下的无奈痛苦,以小格局揭露真相背后深不可测的阴谋,对《圣经》的引述尽显反讽意味。荣获圣芭芭拉国际电影节人民选择奖。。讲述了抗战末期的东北,抗联部队秘密潜回哈尔滨,准备和苏军里应外合一举击溃日军的最后防线,国民党中统滨江警察局局长派美女特工进行潜伏,密谋夺取哈尔滨的故事。。