In mid-’80s Romania, a gifted mathematician is under investigation for plans to publish a new theorem by smuggling it overseas. He’s one in a network of academics struggling beneath the oppressive dictatorship in this gripping tale of science and secrecy.

　　"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
　　"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport  both in their professional and daily lives  between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.
　　The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson
　　"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum

　　Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.

　　耍狠的大哥制定了地下法規，賺髒錢買華服，走路有風。小弟如我，只能在廣場嗑南瓜子，邊流口水看妹，邊模擬接吻，屬於我的時代何時到來？主角嘗試使壞，遇見鎮上的壞胚子，經歷詭異、噁心、殘酷卻又奇幻的一夜。鮮豔的影像色彩、實驗電子配樂，導演的處女作展現獨特風格，寫實的文本有著超現實的情節與視覺，使本片切中青少年議題而不落俗套。

　　一个曾经丧失人性的刑讯逼供者.在几十年之后接受电台记者的采访重新回忆自己那段罪孽深重的过去.他以前拷问别人,现在却接受这个记者的“拷问”.在这个下午,拷问的不仅仅是他本人,也拷问了人性,拷问了整个社会制度。

　　Meek farmhand Sasha and policeman Dima have a fraught relationship. They’re brothers-in-law, travel companions, and⁠—secretly⁠—lovers. Over the course of their journey to visit Sasha’s grandmother, unspoken truths are uttered, intimacy is built, and authenticity is challenged. Although they may be far from the peering eyes of their oppressive society, their relationship teeters on a dangerous precipice.
　　Selected and supported by the IFP Filmmaker Lab and destined to evoke both the breathtaking landscapes of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and the tragedy of a Dostoevsky novel, Viatcheslav Kopturevskiy’s auspicious debut drama is an elliptical and much-needed examination of internalized homophobia, repression, and identity in a remote Siberian town.

　　剧情改编自意大利语言学家兼小说家佳维诺莱达自学成功的真实故事，他原是萨丁尼亚地区的牧羊人，二十岁之前还目不识丁，后因不堪父亲的淫威而自愿从军。军中一位袍泽教他读书识字，从此改变了他的精神世界。退伍后他跑去上大学研究语文，然后回故乡用知识跟严父对抗。
　　幕后花絮：
　　本片是意大利导演塔维亚尼兄弟首部扬威国际影坛的力作，获戛纳电影节金棕榈大奖。导演用沉寂多时的意大利新写实主义电影手法来处理这个发生在穷乡僻壤的父子对抗故事，气氛平实感人，有一种原始的美。当年轻的佳维诺在聆听了陌生人的手风琴演奏，而决定拿两只小羊换取手风琴的那一刻令人兴奋，因为他终于采取行动反抗父亲了。

　　2001年戛纳电影节影评人周单元最佳影片奖
　　2001年东京国际电影节最佳导演奖、评审团奖
　　神学院学生赛耶德·哈桑即将升职做牧师，偏偏在就职典礼之前他的礼服被一个小男孩偷去了。于是他追踪到一个边远的郊区，那里的居民生活贫苦，从未见过牧师，对此知之甚少。最后，赛耶德学会了重要的一课：在宗教教义与艰难的生活现实生活存在着鸿沟，而这样的差异需要用情感去填补。雷萨-米尔卡瑞米导演在东京国际电影节致词时特别强调，他想告诉大家其实伊斯兰教是很爱好和平的宗教，而且也反对恐怖主义，并不是一种带暴力色彩的宗教。
　　与我们同根同种的亚洲人拍的这片子里，处处使我觉得亲切熟稔。年轻人憨憨而不知所措的表情、学校长者官腔却不乏真情的训导、暗淡而陈旧的店铺、城市角落里最卑微的人群、缓慢的生活，这一切都像是我们自己在成长路上所经历所看见过的。
　　他们多诚实，伊朗的贫困与落后历历地显现出来。可我敢说，这片子能打动的绝不止我一个人，也不止我们这些亚洲人。描绘贫穷而非展示贫穷，坦陈伤口而非哀矜伤口，伊朗的导演实在胜过我们某些所谓著名导演太多。

　　每年二月份，阿根廷西北部就会开始下起热带雨林特有的倾盆大雨，雨水把广阔的森林变成了一片人畜都无法通过的沼泽湿地，炙热的太阳晒在沼泽上，热气与雾气让这儿一片死寂。五十岁老妇人梅恰，就住在这片沼泽地的边缘，她与她的表妹塔丽在这儿经营着一座农场，她们各有四个小孩，各有一个老公，两个家庭在沼泽边挣扎着生存，但是这一年夏天，两个意外事件让她们面临了生存的挑战……

　　When talking about Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, what immediately comes to mind are lace, tall wigs, flamboyant clothes and colours, Versailles, or… the guillotine. Here, between these two extremes, exists a middle ground, a period of time seldom explored: the few months when the last king and queen of France were imprisoned, with their two young children, in a black castle on the outskirts of Paris, awaiting their executions. A brief and condensed period where, amidst violence and harassment, all masks fell off: those of two royals, as public and private figures; that of the old regime; that of a History that finally turned the page; and that of God who, from then on, was eclipsed by the shadows, leaving man entirely alone.

　　土耳其首部获柏林电影节金熊奖电影。在传统封建的农业社会中，水源代表权力。小村饱受干旱之苦，Hasan为了向Osman争取与群众分享水源，引起兄弟间的纷争，结果Osman杀了人，Hasan为他顶罪入狱，连妻子子也归Osman所有。

　　The issue of War widow representation in Israeli cinema is one of the most complex for the local industry for it seems to be unique and with a very local and specific iconography.
　　The war Widow is a difficult character to digest. Because this is an especially painful topic in Israel, its mode of representation is almost always problematic.
　　Gila Almagor in Tofano's "siege" is one of the first characters of the "modern" war widows to appear on Israeli cinema screens.
　　The human and social complexity of the status of widows was not represented adequately and personally until her complex and fine appearance in this film.
　　It was mostly Preceded by cliches of heroic women who have sacrificed for the nation with characters to which it was very difficult to get attached, nor to their personal grief.
　　"Siege" was directed by an unknown Italian director of that period. Although Gilberto Tofano was brought as a professional director on the wings of inspiration made by the French New Wave of those years, he managed to turn out a very exciting work which has caught the Israeli warmth and sense of social siege which surrounds the Israeli widows, including the great expectations from them and the social stigmas.
　　Tofano wrapped his leading lady with lots of warmth and gave a place of honor to Almagor's impressive presence in the film.
　　This is without a doubt one of Almagor's best and most accurate performances. The restraint in her performance plus the shooting and expressive use of angles by Tofano and his soft European touch which was far off from the aggressive local product managed to produce a sense of documenting an authentic tragedy with a tangible personal touch that minimized the national dimension. The result stands the test of time proudly several decades after its creation.

　　The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.
　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,
　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.
　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.

　　一个资产阶级作家没有随家人撤离，而是满怀喜悦要目睹革命后的古巴现状。他流连于哈瓦那的街头，沉思并观望着这个国家的变化，然而他也不自觉地因为自己的好色风流而陷入道德危机之中。

　　Whenever I see La Paura I think of it as a companion piece to Eyes Wide Shut, or maybe it is the other way around. Adultery makes both films tick but in different ways. I think Phillip French was right on the money when he pointed out a Wizard of Oz thing in Kubrick's last work. Like Dorothy, Tom and Nicole go through fantasies and nightmares and at the end Dorothy's reassuring childish motto "there's no place like home" is ironically updated to the adult circumstantial adage "there's no sex like marital sex". Kubrick's take is intellectual, he never leaves the world of ideas to touch the ground. He taunts the audience first with an erotic movie and then with a thriller and refuses to deliver either of them. He was married to his third wife for 40 years, until he died. Rossellini was still married to Ingrid Bergman when he directed La Paura; they had been adulterous lovers and their infidelity widely criticized La Paura is a tale, a noirish one. The noir intrigue is solved and the tale has a happy ending. The city is noir; the country is tale, the territory where childhood is possible. The transition is operated in the most regular way: by car, a long-held shot taken from the front of the car as it rides into the road, as if we were entering a different dimension. Irene (Bergman) starts the movie: we just see a dark city landscape but her voice-over narration tells us of her angst and informs us that the story is a flashback, hers. Bergman's been cheating on her husband. At first guilt is just psychological torture but soon expands into economic blackmail and then grows into something else. From beginning to end the movie focuses on what Bergman feels, every other character is there to make her feel something. Only when the director gives away the plot before the main character can find out does he want us to feel something Bergman still can't. When she finds out, we have already experienced the warped mechanics of the situation and we may focus once again on the emotional impact it has on Bergman's Irene. In La Paura treasons are not imagined but real, nightmares are deliberate and the couple's venom suppurates in bitter ways. Needless to say, Ingrid has another of her rough rides in the movies but Rossellini doesn't dare put her away as he did in Europa 51, nor does he abandon her to the inscrutable impassivity of nature (Stromboli). His gift is less transcendent and fragile than the conclusion of Viaggio in Italia. He just gives his wife as much of a fairy tale ending as a real woman can have, a human landscape where she can finally feel at home. Back to the country, a half lit interior scene where shadows suggest the comfort of sleep. After all, it's the "fairy godmother" who speaks the last words in the movie.

　　Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival
　　YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
　　1969 Won Grand Prize
　　Dusan Hanák
　　A government official in Czechoslovakia mistakenly believes he has cancer. He reasons his involvement in clandestine activities during the Stalin administration have fated him to die from a dreaded disease. He searches for inner peace as he feels the guilt of his past transgressions. This film tied for the Grand Prize at the Mannheim Film Festival in 1969.
　　Slovak director Dusan Hanak was one of Czech cinema's brightest and best talents of the '60s and '70s, but because of censorship this was not manifest until the late '80s. Dusan made an impact on the film world with his auspicious debut 322 (1969). Though banned until 1988, when it was finally released, it earned international acclaim and the Grand Prix award at the Mannheim Film Festival. Hanak's sophomore effort, the documentary Obrazy Stareho Sveta/Image of an Old World (completed in 1972), was also not released until 1988 and neither was his 1980 film Ja Milujem, Ty Milujes/I Love You, You Love. Only Hanak's 1976 film Ruzove Sny/Rose-Tinted Dreams passed muster with censors and saw a timely release.

　　《街童》是巴西著名导演赫克托.巴本科第一部获得国际声誉的经典影片，是80年代巴西最好的电影之一，1982年金球奖最佳外语片提名等众多国际性电影大奖。

　　改编自卡夫卡未完成的长篇小说《美国》，但其关注的并非真实的美国，更像是没有详细年代的关于美国的寓言。卡尔•罗斯曼由于丑闻而接受其舅舅的邀请搬去美国，然而他无法摆脱欧洲大陆旧式习惯，更糟的是，欧洲的阶级结构无法让他通过自己的双手谋生。这一电影版关注资本主义社会创造的残酷而变幻莫测的阶级关系。同时忠于原著而未添加影片的结局。施特劳布夫妇风格的一贯操作与卡夫卡氛围的完美结合：中景固定机位，面无表情的演员，人物肢体和语言刻意僵硬，强调侧面特写，镜头推进及平移刻意突兀。由此我们可以寻求到改编卡夫卡作品的带实验性的可能。

　　Les déboires d’une troupe de théâtre dans le Bengale des années 50.

　　A great spanish cult movie!!
　　This is one of the most astonishing films ever made. It has some scenes that it should be in the history of cinema. Like the filming by Fernando Fernan Gomez of the militias using a big roll of paper to win a positions. Or the begging of the film based on real events. The birth of the director inside the carp where the first cinematographer was showing "the train arriving to the station". Being shoot in really simple way it's amazing the proper use of the audiovisual language. The late Guillermo Cabrera Infante showed this film in a Canadian film festival in Spanish without subtitles when the projection finish the audience didn't move and they ask for seen the film again. The effect of this film in the audience is unbelievable. None a single person that has seen this rare Spanish movie could forget it. Except the main actor Fernando Fernan Gomez who never remember work on it.

　　这是一部关于一位早逝的电影天才的散文式纪录片，《格列佛最后的旅行》用日记+影像的形式再现了1964-1972年捷克导演帕维尔·祖拉塞克的私人生活，他的情感困扰和动荡的时代背景，帕维尔生前只留下了两部电影和33篇日记，1964年29岁的他刚刚独立拍完一部短片并写了几本出色的电影剧本，一个有天赋的年轻编剧即将要成为导演，然而与妻子的矛盾也逐渐显现在艺术家过于自我的生活里，那时新浪潮刚刚萌芽不久，卡罗维发利影展吸引了众多世界的目光，一批刚毕业的青年导演也初露锋芒，包括帕维尔在内的许多人都看到了实现个人梦想的机遇。。。68年前后的改革让布拉格迎来了春天，青年人的生活色彩开始丰富，新潮和时尚充满在这座东欧小城里，可帕维尔的生活却逐渐脱离轨道，妻子离她而去，带走了可爱的女儿，而他正困扰于新剧本的创作，他开始怀疑自己的一些想法，甚至觉得自己也许并不适合做这一行。。。
　　当苏联坦克悍然侵入布拉格时，帕维尔选择了沉默，并没有像其他人那样走上街头抗议，而是以电影为控诉极权暴力的途径，尽管在《为年轻刽子手的辩护》中这样的主题显得并不是很直白露骨，但事实上隐藏的含意是不言而喻的，而这也决定了帕维尔和他的电影的命运，影片只在一座小剧院里放映了两周就被禁，帕维尔连同埃德尔瓦·朔尔姆、杨·南曼奇、乔拉·赫兹等人一起上了捷克秘密警察的黑名单，他的工作室被迫关闭，胶片拷贝被没收，那段时期他彻底放下了电影，重新组建了新的家庭，并有了儿子，可谁又知道一个受到禁锢而无法展示自己才华的艺术家心中真正的苦闷呢，十七年后当丝绒革命即将爆发之前，54岁的帕维尔却没能等到重获自由的那一天。
　　影片由帕维尔的儿子马瑞克扮演父亲，片中贯穿头尾的画外音朗读日记也是由他亲自叙述的，导演马丁·苏黎克用家庭电影的实验性拍摄手法将一个艺术家短暂而悲剧的一生展现在观众眼前，时代是如何影响个人的命运，黑白与彩色交织的画面暗示着帕维尔分离的情感世界，一种是与女儿在一起时的温馨，另一种是陷入孤独和迷惘时的无助，在他的眼中我看到了忧伤，即使与家人相处时他的安静的目光背后依然有着深深的痛苦感，对前妻的愧疚，对女儿的思念依然折磨着他的心灵。摄影机始终跟随着主人公，一点一滴地记录下生活的全部，略带苛砾感的影像构建起一个很私人的空间，但生活毕竟是可以被再现的，而特殊的时代却是很难去复制的，所以影片里还插入了不少真实的纪录影像，将真实的场景与演员的再现两者结合为一体，剪接处丝毫没有唐突感。
　　在我看来尽管帕维尔·祖拉塞克的遭遇能代表捷克新浪潮一代从最初的充满理想到被无情扼杀再到逐渐归于沉寂的悲剧结局，但他更多还是作为一个普通人而存在，他的生活里也有着普通人的爱恨得失，有着那个年代东欧人生活中共同的压抑和痛苦，人们应该记住他和他的电影，记住那段悲伤的往事，但历史并不能倒转，传奇也不可能再去重复。
　　《格列佛最后的旅行》（The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver），2002年，58分钟，黑白+彩色，捷克共和国。03年捷克评论家协会最佳纪录片奖；03年德国威斯巴登东欧电影节最佳影片金百合花奖。

　　工于心计的克里斯托弗·沃尔肯饰演恶名昭彰的纽约大流氓韦佛兰，他在出狱之后要收回他在坐牢时失去的毒品市场，跟哥伦比亚帮、意大利帮和华青帮等竞争对手展开宣战，逐渐建立起比以前更庞大的犯罪王国。但因其不可一世的嚣张态度，也激起了另一帮派头目的不满，因而展开一场黑道大火拼……

　　“捷克新浪潮电影的黑暗、诡异的奇葩” 捷克奇幻电影杰作选之《魔格亚纳》
　　风靡全球的捷克奇幻电影魅力！
　　导演： 乔拉．赫兹
　　影片简介:一个家庭因为财产分配上的矛盾,姐姐购买了使人产生幻觉的毒药,给妹妹使用了,可是并没有使自己得到需要的东西,幕后隐藏的黑手到底是谁呢？