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.。河南农村某公社的柿子沟生产队，因为缺水，缺大牲畜，给发展生产带来很大的困难。贫农出身的生产队委员韩芒种和副队长李十三，在物资交流会上遇到了一匹价钱便宜的瘦马。芒种认为，只要下功夫喂，这马准能喂好。经他再三坚持，说服了怕担责任的李十三，终于以120元的便宜价钱买下了这匹瘦马。队里的饲养员梁斗，是个自私自利思想严重的上中农。他本想自己买下瘦马，养肥了好倒卖赚钱。现在看芒种给队里买回来了就百般挑剔，故意刁难，拒绝承担喂养瘦马的任务。这时候，生产队长长水从公社开会回来，带来了会议提倡的自力更生、奋发图强的革命精神。他积极支持芒种喂养瘦马的要求，并提出了修渠引水，改造60亩旱地的建议。梁斗没有把马弄到手，不死心，他怂恿妻子刘翠香去挑唆芒种的妻子蔡秀真，叫她拉芒种的后腿。确实“买马容易，养马难”，芒种白天修水渠，夜里服侍瘦马，遭到秀真反对，加上芒种用了家里的香油...。本片由著名京剧表演艺术家尚小云主演，系尚小云先生经过长期舞台实践，千锤百炼，逐步丰富提高，久为广大观众所赞美的两折戏：《昭君出塞》和《失子惊疯》。。
