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.。帕提班与妻子萨蒂亚和两个孩子在西姆拉过着简朴的生活，经营着一家咖啡馆。几个职业杀手进入这个小镇制造混乱，一天晚上他们袭击了帕提班的咖啡馆，所有人都在试图救他的女儿和雇员时被他开枪打死。审判在法庭进行，帕提班被释放，因为所有人都是罪犯，他这样做是出于自卫。帕提班成了镇上的英雄，他的新闻在各种报纸上发表，很少有人希望他死。其中一个匪徒哈罗德·达斯看到了他的照片，认出他是利奥·达斯，很多年前他就已经死了。哈罗德通知他的哥哥安东尼达斯一个威胁的匪徒谁前往西姆拉会见帕提班。安东尼确信帕提班就是狮子座，并试图用各种方法骚扰他。但帕提班坚持认为他不是狮子座。。
