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.。

战后，他(tā )内心内疚，不能回去继续传教，于是就重新参加美国(🕔)空军，来到(dào )朝(📯)鲜战场给韩国空军训练首批战斗机驾驶员。

经过一些列的分析(xī )推理探访之后(🕦)，终于真相(xiàng )大(🏹)白。

其中两人在(🌦)1917-1918年死于流感病毒，而(ér )他们在前一个星期才接受(shòu )了教皇的洗礼。

In small czech town named Jilemnice live unfortunate, but brave and jovial woman Štěpa Kiliánová, whose only desire was to fill the void in her virgin life. In despair and excessive trust, she married a sardonic, reclusive man, former lieutenant and gambler Pavel Malina, whose only wish was finally found peace and forgetting the past. They lived through unrequited love, dislike and disappointment. But no one knew that her groom begin to show signs of cerebral disease, which in the coming years engulf his sanity.。

然而(🔱)，正当两人的感(🛸)情重新热烈燃烧(shāo )之时，战争的再度降临和情人的意外回归将这个家庭又一次(🕠)推向(xiàng )了风口(🖇)浪尖。

年轻菲佣Evelyn（Crisel Consunji饰）因为现实的原因，成为了一个寄人(rén )篱下的工人，放弃了成为(wéi )摄影师的(💶)梦想。