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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.。在静谧的黑暗森林边缘，有一个不知名的村庄，长久以来，关于狼人的各种传闻在这里广为流传。美丽的少女瓦莱丽已到成婚之年，家人把她许配给了村子里有钱人家的儿子亨利，然而瓦莱丽真心爱着的却是与自己青梅竹马的樵夫彼得。为了追求真爱，瓦莱丽和彼得决定私奔。然而正当他们计划逃走之时，狼人出现并杀死了瓦莱丽的妹妹。村民们长久的积怨终于在这一刻爆发，他们决定要铲除威胁村民的狼人。残酷的战斗之后，村民们在一座山洞里杀死了一只巨狼。然而山洞中的巨狼并不是传说中的狼人，真正的狼人其实一直隐藏在村民之中……。