视频简介
Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。二战沦陷后的法国，露薏丝（索菲·马索饰）的丈夫因为参加抵抗组织而被暗杀，受到牵连的她只好逃往伦敦，加入了代号SOE的神秘组织，由丘吉尔亲自设立和操控的特别行动局（SOE），实际上是一个搜集情报和从事破坏任务的情报机构。1944年4月，露薏丝接受了特别行动局指派的一项艰巨任务，不惜一切代价重返法国，营救一位被俘的英国间谍。原来在距盟军在诺曼底登陆还有几个月时，一名英国地质学家被派往英法海峡执行勘察任务，却不幸落入敌人手中，因为他手中掌握着德军布置在诺曼底的防御工事图，英国情报单位正想方设法营救他。露薏丝为执行她的首个任务，招募了几名年轻女子组成了一个行动小组，其中的让娜（茱丽·德帕迪厄饰）原为妓女，她因杀死她的杈杆儿而被判死刑。苏姬是一个轻浮的舞女，她与德国纳粹党卫军黑衫队的一名军官订了婚。嘉艾尔（黛伯拉·弗朗索瓦饰）是一名笃信天主教的布列塔尼女人，也是一名非常出色的化学专家。她们于夜里空降到关押英国地质学家的德军基地附近，以露薏丝为首的五人小组很快混入了德军医院开始营救行动，而基地的德国陆军上校亨催施也注意到了五位活跃的美女。。一次交通意外， 一个有才华但不得志的漫画家（梁朝伟 饰）遇上刚要出嫁之女鬼（王祖贤 饰），由此引出一段浪漫感人的人鬼隔世情。小女鬼來到阳间，对世事一无所知，幸遇资深女鬼（叶德娴 饰），二人互诉身世，原來叶夫早丧，因偷会嫁前情人，与子同被浸猪笼而死。小女鬼对漫画家情有独钟，暗中相助使他成为当红漫画家。但小女鬼却日渐虛弱。叶终于等到令其子转世机会，不过交换条件是要将小女鬼抓回阴间，因小女鬼实乃血魔之未婚妻子，叶为自己儿子作人，故不惜出卖小女鬼。漫画家决意闯入阴间与血魔决斗……。
