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.。元和九年(1623年),德川第二代将军秀忠在江户大奥内暴卒,其死因尚未查明,下任将军继承人的问题旋即便被摆上台面。秀忠生前宠爱幼子忠长(西郷輝彦 饰),京都皇族也对其甚为看好,故而江户多数大臣全力拥护忠长出任第三代将军;另一方面,忠长的兄长家光(松方弘樹 饰)是第三代将军的合法继承人,其背后有老中松平信纲(高橋悦史 饰)等文臣的支持,更有将军剑术师傅——柳生宗炬(萬屋錦之介 饰)及其武士家族充当坚强的武力后盾。
为使家光成功践祚,柳生一族广结同盟,在对手处安插眼线,甚至不惜采取暴力手段达到目的。那个夏天,江户城内外陷入权力斗争以及血雨腥风之中……。本剧主要围绕“九一八”事变后黑龙江省军民同仇敌忾,齐心协力打响抗日第一枪为背景。讲述了在黑龙江省主席马占山的带领下,全省军民同日军和张海鹏为首的伪军斗智斗勇的故事,讴歌了马占山为首的民族英雄,为国、为家、为民、舍生忘死的民族情怀! 黑龙江省边境小镇黑河,在时任警备司令的马占山治理下,百姓安居乐业,却不料日军悍然发动“九一八事变”。马占山临危受命,被任命为黑省代主席,总揽军政。 马占山发现省内“战”“和”两派针锋相对。以省府委员赵仲仁为首的“主和派”,早已沦为了日本人的棋子,不断阻挠以马占山为首的“抗日派”。而另一方面,日本黑龙会头目黑木,也潜伏到了齐齐哈尔,伺机暗杀和破坏马占山抗日…… 马占山内忧外患,危机四伏,在日军发动进攻前,集全省之力,完成了一道坚不可摧的防线——江桥防线。 然而,省内,赵仲仁为首的汉奸们步步紧逼;省外,日军调集精锐,大军压境;...。