简介：In this notorious Nazi propaganda historical costume melodrama, a conniving, ambitious Jewish businessman, Suess Oppenheimer, snares a post as treasurer to the Duke of Wurttemburg by showering the corrupt duke with treasure and promises of even greater riches. As the Jew's schemes grow more elaborate and his actions more brazen, the dukedom nearly erupts into civil war. Persuaded by the Jew, the Duke all but scuttles the constitution and alienates the assembly by lifting the local ban on Jews in Stuttgart. In a final outrage, the Jew rapes a wholesome German girl and tortures her father and fiancee. When the Duke succumbs to a sudden heart attack, the assembly of Elders try the Jew and sentence him to death for having carnal knowledge of a Christian woman. Summary written by Kevin Rayburn
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.
简介：纽约港的码头上，以约翰尼为首的黑社会势力无情地压迫着码头工人们。曾经是拳击手的特里（马龙·白兰度 Marlon Brando 饰）来到码头为约翰尼工作。他的朋友乔伊因为向犯罪委员会揭发约翰尼等人的罪行，被其手下，也是特里的哥哥查理从楼顶上推下摔死。乔伊的妹妹伊迪（爱娃·玛丽·森特 Eva Marie Saint 饰）发誓要为哥哥复仇，与教区牧师巴里神父一起展开调查。知情人都不敢出面告发。特里也目睹了乔伊被害的经过，虽然同情伊迪的遭遇，想要帮她逃离黑社会的迫害，但他没有告发哥哥的罪行。在与伊迪的接触中，两人渐渐产生感情。当伊迪得知他是杀害哥哥的帮凶，她拒绝了他。之后哥哥也为了救特里而被约翰尼杀害。无数罪恶的事件让特里决心去揭发约翰尼的罪行。在码头上他被约翰尼的手下打成重伤，神父和伊迪赶来支持他，一直沉默的码头工人们也觉醒了，他们团结在一起，为了正义抗争...
简介：Thirteen-year-old Morris, a hip-hop loving American, moves to Heidelberg, Germany, with his father. In this completely foreign land, he falls in love with a local girl, befriends his German tutor-turned-confidant, and attempts to navigate the unique trials and tribulations of adolescence.