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有位将军得胜归来后，不再练武，成天过着荒唐享乐的生活。几个月后，正当大家向他祝寿时，敌人突然起兵进攻。将军慌忙应战，发现枪已锈坏，箭壶成了鼠窝，他手下的官兵都跑光了，将军只好束手就擒。。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.。两个国家，两个城镇，一条河流。河的两端正是两个世界的代表。一个丰饶富裕，一个贫穷无望。人蛇将波兰边境这个与德国只有一河之隔的城镇当转运站，故事就在这里发生。本片角色众多，却个个立体鲜明，庞杂却有序的叙事结构，接近新闻纪录片式贴身拍摄的影像质地，加上流畅剪接，只有两天左右的剧情，人物个个血泪遭遇都令人无法忘怀。 本片荣获2003柏林电影节金熊奖提名和2004巴伐里亚国际电影节最佳影片。。