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.

本片改编自真实事件，七岁的阿德里安在以文化和古典音乐而闻名世界的奥地利萨尔茨堡的地下毒品环境成长。他的母亲海尔格在她的毒瘾和对儿子的爱之间挣扎。尽管在这样的环境下，阿德里安仍有一个快乐且正常的童年。但当当局和儿童福利机构发现海尔格有毒瘾时，他们的关系受到了限制。

亚历山大（米基·哈特 Mickey Hardt 饰）的父亲经营着一家香水公司，亚历山大拥有与生俱来的灵敏嗅觉，对香味非常的敏感，因此在事业上给与了父亲许多的帮助。一次偶然中，亚历山大邂逅了名为托尼（瓦莱丽·涅豪斯 Valerie Niehaus 饰）的美丽单亲妈妈，并且震惊的发现托尼的儿子雅诺士拥有着异于常人的嗅觉。 亚历山大想要培养雅诺士，帮助他成为一名调香师，但是托尼却拒绝了他。然而亚历山大并没有放弃，雅诺士自己也很愿意涉足香水这一行业。随着时间的推移，托尼发现自己渐渐爱上了亚历山大，而亚历山大和雅诺士共同研制出来的爱情香水也诞生了。

The subject of the film is the unearthing of a major press scandal inspired by the book by Spanish-German journalist Juan Moreno Tausend Zeilen Lüge (lit. “A Thousand Lines of Lies”).

本片讲述了一位天才盲人钢琴家对抗不公命运的传奇故事。主人公米耶特出生于波兰一个贫困的农场家庭，12岁时因疾病视力渐逝、又经历父亲离弃、母亲早亡、修道院清冷无助的寄养生活……纵然拥有音乐天赋，他的钢琴之路却始终伴随着冷眼与嘲笑，为了弹琴他不断碰壁，又再次遭受朋友和心爱之人的背离……这个被命运几经捉弄，几乎毫无还手之力的弱者，唯一能够用来反抗的，便是他的音乐，音乐是他重新认识、沟通世界并且对抗不公命运的唯一途径……

影片根据真实历史事件改编，灵感来自戈尔斯基的人生经历，少年时代生活环境艰难，酗酒，吸毒，成长过程中不乏对社会体系的抗争和对自身的挑战，最终通过艰苦奋斗，从一名毒瘾患者成为了世界铁人三项冠军。