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.。这是一个纪录电影。前美国卡车司机工会领袖吉米•霍法在密歇根州的一个停车场神秘失踪，成为困扰美国人的一大谜团。有人推测他已被黑手党杀死，但是否真的如此，至今仍是一个谜。警方开展了长达四十年的大规模调查，确定了几百名嫌疑人，但本案的调查仍没有任何进展。在美国人心中，Hoffa既是英雄也是恶棍。他白手起家，成为全国最大公会的主席。就算身陷监狱，仍然受到运输公司Teamsters上下的尊敬和爱戴。由于肯尼迪总统阵营的反对,Hoffa的名字成为贪官的代名词，但其中真相扑朔迷离。Hoffa最辉煌的岁月正是美国经济和公会运动最鼎盛时期，他也曾参与过犯罪组织的活动。《吉米 霍法之死》第一次全面揭露事件首尾，通过全面的调查，寻找不为人知的线索和照片，揭开Hoffa之死的神秘面纱。。
