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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.。1948年冬的南京，阴霾密布，蒋介石抛出《元旦文告》，企图以“和谈”伎俩来拖延时间。但国民党内部派系斗争却不断激化，令他非常恼火。此时，我军已取得辽沈、平津、淮海三大战役的全面胜利，毛泽东发表《关于时局的声明》，提出我党关于争取国内和平的八项条件，揭露蒋介石假和谈、真备战的反动本质。反动集团被毛主席的声明所震动，敌人内部蒋桂派系矛盾进一步加剧，美帝国主义也欲改变战略，令蒋介石腹背受敌，不得不宣布“下野”。美国驻华大使司徒雷登遂怂恿代总统李宗仁与我党进行以“隔江而治”为基本条件的和谈，企图形成南北分治的局面。但党中央表示将坚决维护中华民族的统一，解放大军挥师南下，蒋介石在幕后加紧部署长江防务。美帝国主义乘机散布解放军一渡江，就要引起第三次世界大战的讹传。1949年4月1日，周恩来率中共代表团与以张治中为首的南京国民党政府代表团在北平举行谈判，虽然我方顾...。In 2019, celebrated pianist Igor Levit allowed filmmaker Regina Schilling into his life, home and studio to shoot a behind-the-scenes portrait. His recording, “Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas,” had just hit the charts and his 108-stop world tour was one of the year’s most-anticipated events. The often-controversial speaker, who disavowed his Russian roots and called out Germa...。
