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.。时值第一次世界大战的尾声，一群饱受惊吓的隧道兵必须带领一队协约军，深入战壕一百呎以下的德军秘密基地。不料德军具有高度传染性的生化武器却早已失控，被传染的受害者都会成为丧心病狂的杀人魔，协约军这才发现自己被困在瘟病肆虐的人间炼狱，还必须面对受命收拾残局却不幸染病发狂的德国衝锋兵。这群历经风霜的士兵万万没想到，唯一比西方战线更加骇人的事物，居然就隐身在战场壕沟的地底深处。。
