1960年代，上山下乡运动风靡全国，陈希南（周里京 饰）、韩七月（张静 饰）、曲林（吕晓刚 饰）、肖弟弟（雷汉 饰）等青年来到北大荒，支援边疆建设。不久，现实的严酷将考验着他们，七月的父母被打成了反革命，她的内心在挣扎，信念在动摇。肖弟弟由于收不到海外亲人的来信，渐渐对生活失去了勇气。而忍受不了北大荒恶劣生存环境的凝玉（林芳兵 饰），则想通过结婚调回城去。盛夏到了，人人都在思考以后的出路。七月通过长时间思索，坚定了留在北大荒的信念，但在一场大火中，她被夺去了年青的生命。几年后，希南作为工农兵学员，毕业回到北京，但他的思绪却飞回到遥远的北大荒......
回复 :1931年的柏林。一个介于分租房和黑社会之间的环境，妓院是艺术家的工作室，纳粹在街上大肆辱骂，巴贝尔斯堡则梦想着制作"心理电影"。生活在澎湃，社会在发酵，在腐蚀。只要还有工作，拥有德国研究博士学位的雅各布·法比安白天写广告文案，晚上就和斯蒂芬·拉布德一起频繁出入城市中比较荒诞的场所。他的朋友-后来承认自己"在生活和职业的课题上"失败了-在谈到共产主义和性的时候，是个有进取心的人，而法比安却依然清醒而疏离。他等待着"体面的胜利"，却没有真正相信它。他对柯内莉亚的爱是唯一让他质疑自己讽刺宿命论的东西。她成了他崩溃生活中的一缕希望。尽管与今天这个被人诟病的世界有很多相似之处，但要让埃里希·凯斯特纳深沉悲凉的自传体小说《法比安》-魏玛共和国最重要的小说之一-走出阴暗的生存环境是一个挑战。多米尼克·格拉夫出色地驾驭了这一挑战。他的风格是微妙的尖锐，冷血的轻快，却又安静忧郁。这部电影就像一个缓慢转动的迪斯科球，讲述了性行为和空冰箱之间的联系，以及幸福梦想的瓦解。
回复 :这是一部反映现代农村生活的轻喜剧影片。新世纪的中国农家正享受着耕耘的欢娱，享受着新科技、新事物带来的美好生活的乐趣，互联网、WTO、申奥……所有新鲜事儿没有他们不知道的。但他们在那些“传统”问题上，还是有些想不开。这不，一对老“冤家”常老三、吴老四，为了儿女冬瓜、红豆的婚事，摆起了比富的擂台，从而引出一串令人啼笑皆非的故事。影片将突破以往农村喜剧的模式，透过具有时代特点的情景和故事，让民族文化的古朴与时尚在此交融。 该片的演员网罗来一大批“古今中外名士”:在《水浒传》、《窦尔墩》、《笑傲江湖》等影视作品中饰演鲁智深、不戒和尚的臧金生，在片中饰演“乐天”吴老四；《笑傲江湖》里华山派端庄的宁女侠刘冬，这次是他的女当家。主演过《夕照街》、《遭遇激情》、《大捷》等影视作品的袁苑饰演“赖皮”常老三。此外，加盟该片的还有刘希媛、李修蒙、张琰琰等一些新秀；“大众妹妹”于文华也来助兴，当起了“老板娘”。
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回复 :Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.