- 影片拍摄于1967年，是至今为止关于伟大的音乐家巴赫最优秀的影片，片名来源于英国作家同名小说，片中引用的对话、信件都取自巴赫生前的真实文件档案。影片几乎汇集了当时音乐演奏界的精英，如哈侬考特、奥古斯特·温钦格等，具有非常高的史料价值。与我们平日看到肖像画上胖而结实的巴赫完全不同，由著名钢琴演奏家和指挥家古斯塔夫·莱昂哈扮演的巴赫显得瘦小文弱。影片问世后得到了当时影评界的激赏。《安娜·玛格达丽娜·巴赫的编年史》（Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach，1968年）是由达尼埃尔·于伊耶和让-马里·斯特劳布共同执导的电影。影片主要由Eckart Bruntjen、Rainer Kirchner、古斯塔夫·莱昂哈和Christiane Lang等演员主演。《安娜·玛格达丽娜·巴赫的编年史》是一部以巴赫家族音乐为主题的传记剧情片。影片通过安娜·玛格达丽娜·巴赫的视角，展现了巴赫家族的生活和音乐创作历程。安娜·玛格达丽娜·巴赫是巴赫作曲家家族的一员，她以其对巴赫音乐的支持和贡献而闻名。影片以历史记录的形式呈现，采用了类似纪录片的手法。通过安娜·玛格达丽娜·巴赫的笔记和回忆，观众得以了解巴赫家族的生活环境、音乐创作过程以及他们对音乐的热爱和奉献。影片中融入了大量的巴赫音乐作品，展现了巴赫家族在音乐领域的辉煌成就。观众将沉浸在巴赫音乐的美妙旋律中，感受到音乐所传递的情感和力量。《安娜·玛格达丽娜·巴赫的编年史》不仅是一部关于巴赫音乐的传记片，更是一次对音乐家生活和音乐创作过程的深入探索。影片通过细腻的画面和巴赫音乐的配合，向观众展示了音乐家的辛勤努力、创作灵感的涌现以及对艺术的执着追求。总之，《安娜·玛格达丽娜·巴赫的编年史》是一部充满音乐和艺术氛围的传记剧情片。它通过安娜·玛格达丽娜·巴赫的视角，展示了巴赫家族的生活和音乐创作历程，并通过精彩的音乐表演将观众带入巴赫音乐的奇妙世界。
- Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial. -Steve Grayson my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty. - Jonathan Rosenbaum
- The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna. The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator, the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination. Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.
- 故事发生在风景如画的西西里岛，贵族塞法罗男爵（马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 Marcello Mastroianni 饰）是一位没落的贵族，和妻子纱利雅（Margherita Girelli 饰）之间沉闷的婚姻让他感到十分的厌倦，再加上其美艳不可方物的表妹安吉拉（斯蒂芬尼娅·桑德雷莉 Stefania Sandrelli 饰）的不断勾引，塞法罗决心要甩掉纱利雅。可是，离婚在当时的意大利系违法行为，因此，想要从婚姻里脱身，塞法罗男爵只得另觅他径。 经过塞法罗男爵的种种“努力”，他终于将妻子杀死却只被判了极短的刑期，在铁窗之后，塞法罗男爵幻想着今后幸福生活的种种，心中不禁充满了希冀与兴奋。然而，当自由来临之时，他的生活真的会如同想象的一般美好吗？
