1965 Polish film by Wojciech Jerzy Has

1965 film by Mikhail Romm

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.

二战末期，一个17岁的小男孩在乡间游荡，他先被苏维埃军队捉获，然后释放，之后又因为穿上一件御寒的德国军装而再次被苏联部队逮捕，被监禁在一个偏僻的兵营，在那里他跟一名年轻的苏联士兵建立起一段不可能的友谊关系。影片展示出导演一贯的主题：心理因素、随意的暴力和独裁政权。

玛利亚（朱丽·安德鲁斯 饰）是一个年轻活泼的修女，喜欢在大自然下高声歌唱，所以她常常忘记了修道院里的规矩。院长认为玛利亚并不属于规矩严格的修道院。院长与众嬷嬷商量后，决定安排玛利亚到一位名叫特拉普（克里斯托弗·普卢默 饰）上校家当家庭教师。 上校的妻子去世多年，留下7个孩子，他要求对孩子严格管教。他告诉玛利亚在他家的家庭教师都做不长久，都是因为孩子的恶作剧。玛利亚果然也遭到了恶作剧，可是这位善良的老师并没有告诉他们的父亲，而是像个母亲一样照顾孩子，很快跟孩子打成一片。上校也渐渐在玛利亚的引导下改变了对孩子们的态度。上校与玛利亚之间发生了感情，他们完婚后回到了已被纳粹占领的奥地利，上校并不想为纳粹办事，一家人准备逃跑……

Chuck Jones团队1965-1972年间基于Hanna–Barbera在1940-1957年制作的114部影院版动画短片重新打包编辑的电视版《猫和老鼠》，并制作了新片头。其中还混有MGM出品的其他影院版动画短片如Droopy系列。 这一电视版曾于1990年代初在中央电视台播出过。