死神

Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date. The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer. The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。当美国联邦金库被盗走价值四千万美元的黄金后，探员科林汀(Clenteen)被财政部受命调查此事。为了找回黄金，抓住主要案犯布里斯托 (Bristol)，科林汀决定从被抓的案犯同谋约翰(John Jaster)入手。然而事有不测，在审讯中约翰因心脏病突发死亡，这样唯一的线索也失去了。于是，科林汀利用约翰的狱友阿尔文(Alvin)作诱饵，设了一个陷阱，让布里斯托不请自到，并将其抓获……。故事发生在具有重要历史意义的年份——1949年。是年，中国共产党以解放全中国为口号，对疲态尽显的国民党进行摧枯拉朽的扫荡。而国民党一方困兽犹斗，露出獠牙做出了疯狂而血腥的反扑。南方要地江都，敌我双方明争暗斗，血光四溅。国民党试图推进“天火”计划，以阻截共军渡江的步伐。看似玩世不恭的公子哥叶声实则是我党的一名地下党员，他手眼通天，甚至和国民党高官都有联系。在此期间，名叫邓凯的神秘男子出现在江都。他既是国民党官员，又是中共地下党员。叶声与特别情报小组组长陈如都对此人防范有加。而邓凯扑朔迷离的身份也关系着战局的走向！。