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剧情简介

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.。丹普斯肯恩（克里斯多夫·李维饰）一直是位受尊敬的警探，表面上生活美满，妻子盖儿和弟弟尼克却私通已久，将他蒙在鼓里。一次突击中，丹普斯伤及脊椎，导致下半身瘫痪。绝望沮丧之余，他计划了一个诡异的方法，要让盖儿与尼克拿到他的寿险金，但结果却是盖儿与尼克身亡。资深警探莱哈特（乔伊·蒙泰格纳饰）认为事有蹊翘，便着手调查发现许多疑点，他怀疑丹普斯假装瘫痪，于是将案子交给政风处，准备控告丹普斯，然而经过一番斗智较劲后，法官却因证据不足宣布撤销此案，莱哈特便……。