指挥官维尼裘斯（帕维·德朗柯 Pawel Delag 饰）深深的爱着身在罗马的人质公主丽姬娅（玛达琳娜·米尔卡兹 Magdalena Mielcarz 饰），于是，残暴的尼禄皇帝（克兹佐夫·马扎克 Krzysztof Majchrzak 饰）将丽姬娅赏赐给了维尼裘斯为妻。然而，丽姬娅公主是一个虔诚的基督教徒，她不能忍受维尼裘斯靠杀戮和掠夺过活，丽姬娅选择了离开维尼裘斯。 为了挽回丽姬娅，维尼裘斯找到了基督教的秘密集会处，开始聆听教义，试图理解基督教的核心思想，想通过此走进丽姬娅的内心。当维尼裘斯回宫时，尼禄皇帝正在焚烧罗马城，而丽姬娅就在其中，维尼裘斯闯入火海救出了爱人。皇后非常嫉妒维尼裘斯和丽姬娅之间坚贞的爱情，于是设计陷害。

故事发生在十七世纪的波兰。书亚（Mieczyslaw Voit 饰）是一名德高望重的神父，坚定的坚持着自己对主的信仰和理想。某一日，他被派往了一间修道院中工作，有传闻魔鬼偷偷潜入了这间修道院，在其中作祟。 修道院的院长是一个名为乔安（卢茜娜·温尼斯卡 Lucyna Winnicka 饰）的女人，这个女人的身上散发出一股强大而又神秘的美丽，让众多的修女们为之疯狂。随着时间的推移，神父书亚发现魔鬼的力量实在是过去强大，仅凭他一人之力无法驾驭，于是向一个老法师寻求帮助。然而，最终，书亚亦没有能够拒绝魔鬼的诱惑，为了帮助乔安，他甚至犯下了杀人的罪孽。

公元前11世纪，古埃及面临多重困难，外部有亚述人的战争威胁，又欠下腓尼基商人的大笔债款，国家濒临破产，人民穷困潦倒。拉美西斯十二世病重去世，他的儿子拉美西斯十三世被宣布为法老继承人。为了阻止埃及的迅速衰落，年轻的拉美西斯十三世决定夺取世世代代存放在神庙中的宝藏，将其用于社会改革和对亚述发动战争。但神职人员反对他的计划，祭司和年轻的法老之间开始了政治和宗教斗争。

Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1969 Won Grand Prize Dusan Hanák A government official in Czechoslovakia mistakenly believes he has cancer. He reasons his involvement in clandestine activities during the Stalin administration have fated him to die from a dreaded disease. He searches for inner peace as he feels the guilt of his past transgressions. This film tied for the Grand Prize at the Mannheim Film Festival in 1969. Slovak director Dusan Hanak was one of Czech cinema's brightest and best talents of the '60s and '70s, but because of censorship this was not manifest until the late '80s. Dusan made an impact on the film world with his auspicious debut 322 (1969). Though banned until 1988, when it was finally released, it earned international acclaim and the Grand Prix award at the Mannheim Film Festival. Hanak's sophomore effort, the documentary Obrazy Stareho Sveta/Image of an Old World (completed in 1972), was also not released until 1988 and neither was his 1980 film Ja Milujem, Ty Milujes/I Love You, You Love. Only Hanak's 1976 film Ruzove Sny/Rose-Tinted Dreams passed muster with censors and saw a timely release.

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart. Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory? n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in. What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts. On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired. One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places. Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.