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.。中国抗日战争是20世纪亚洲地区最漫长、最残酷的战争,1931年,日军的铁蹄就入侵了中国东北地区,不甘做亡国奴的中国人民从那时起,就开始了不屈的抗战历程,这比公认的点燃二战战火的德国入侵波兰事件早了整整八年。然而,中国漫长的抗日战争的故事在国际上从未被完整讲述过,中国人民英勇抗战的历史逐渐被世界人民淡忘。《抗战回眸:1931-1945》将透过国际视角,全面讲述1931年至1945年期间中国人民英勇抗击日本侵略者的历史过程,让国际社会了解中国人民在抗战期间遭受的沉痛困难,以及最世界反法西斯战争胜利做出的巨大贡献。。贫民们无家可归的生活被足球世界杯比赛永远的改变了,本片记录了6名球员准备去南非开普敦参加流浪汉世界杯比赛的故事。
每一年,来自世界各地的球员为了属于他们的世界杯而战——流浪汉世界杯。
这是一个关于爱与希望的真实故事,《流浪汉世界杯》自2008年圣丹斯电影节上首映起便赢得了全世界的观众的心。一切缘起于一个绝妙的主意:给无家可归者一个通过足球去改变自己命运的机会。流浪汉世界杯是一个由来自48个国家数以千计无家可归者参加的体育赛事。球员们来自被战争蹂躏的阿富汗、肯尼亚的贫民窟、爱尔兰都柏林的戒毒所、北卡罗莱纳州夏洛特的街头。他们的命运都因体育的力量而改变,胜或负,这是他们另一次人生之旅。。