Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’　　The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.

1864年经过激烈的战斗和亚特兰大居民的残酷炮击，联邦部队（“扬克斯”）控制了这座城市。他们的计划是利用亚特兰大仓库区剩余的所有货物为即将到来的三月海上装备他们的军队，他们希望这将结束国家之间的战争。邦联间谍伪装成扬克斯（Yanks）进入仓库区，以清点仍然可能对北方军队有用的东西。他们找到了很多。这个词源于邦联的命令烧毁整个地区，摧毁了大批商品，并使该地区数十年来的数百个家庭流离失所。 “亚特兰大之火”的故事讲述的是战争临近结束时一个主要城市的毁灭，而这种绝望和恐怖在那些注视着整个社会崩溃的人们的生活中引起了他们的关注。

经历一连串失败的恋情后，这对密友达成协议，决定冒险再次寻觅真爱 — 但他们也许就是彼此的真爱呢？

安娜是一个离了婚的单身母亲，她请了年轻的小保姆丽兹照顾她的两个孩子，她不久就发现丽兹有吸毒的问题，而且后者和男人的关系也很随便。