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.。1926年，青年知识分子肖涧秋（孙道临 饰）应老同学陶慕侃（高博 饰）之邀，来到浙东小镇中学任教。在前往赴教的轮船上他遇到了丈夫死于广州起义的文嫂（上官云珠 饰），顿生同情之心。在陶慕侃为其举行的欢迎家宴上，他认识了陶的妹妹，活泼大方的陶岚（谢芳 饰）。交谈中方知在轮船上遇到的孤儿寡母竟是老同学李志浩的家小。出于正义和同情，肖涧秋经常资助造访文嫂家，这引起了周围人议论。而肖的正义品格却赢得了陶岚的爱慕，此时的肖涧秋陷入了巨大矛盾之中。他爱陶岚，更同情饥寒交迫的文嫂一家，考虑再三他决定娶文嫂为妻。陶岚无比震惊，指责他这不是爱情是因为同情。此时，一直暗恋陶岚的钱正兴（王培 饰）来到肖的宿舍，表示愿意出钱资助他与文嫂结婚，并希望他把陶岚让给自己。肖涧秋闻言怒不可遏......。
