视频简介
在中苏边境跑生意的俄罗斯人谢尔盖不但迷了路，自己的卡车还陷到了泥坑里。他茫然地爬上山头以求救援，却看见了蒙古人天葬的尸体，惊愕的奔跑中遇到了蒙古牧民贡巴。淳朴热情的贡巴把谢尔盖请到家中杀羊摆酒进行款待，并帮他解决了卡车的问题。 贡巴、妻子和他们的三个孩子像祖先一样过着传统的游牧生活，这种温馨自然的家庭生活让谢尔盖回想起自己远在故乡的亲人。不久，谢尔盖在城里的歌厅酒后闹事被警察带走，贡巴又托亲戚把他接了出来。最后，这两个民族不同、语言不通、生活习惯迥异的男人成了要好的朋友……。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.。