40岁的抑郁症患者瓦利德与他的妻儿一起生活在海法，梦想从事写作的职业。当瓦利德与新邻居——一个住在他公寓楼里、负债累累的三流骗子成为朋友时，他的生活发生了变化，两人逐渐变得形影不离，但他们对这份友谊有着不一样的看法。

ppoy is a school kid with a creative mind who couldn't cope up with the formal system. All the while he got attention through his art. When he was forced to the edge of the system he begin to lose his identity. Later he is pushed into a loser category. At one point he begins to get attention when he started to perform outside of the system as a wild character. Because of the strong outer factor of the system and due to confused feelings he chose to remain as a wild character without knowing he is actually being a slave of the rottening system.…

　　一个因工作而心力憔悴的精灵来到现实世界，他结识了一个小男孩，试图在这位新朋友的帮助下体验圣诞节的魔力

　　Follows the life of a youngster from college to his marriage.

　　1942年，沦陷的斯洛伐克某小镇上，德国人正在主持修建庞大的木制纪念碑，但当地木匠托尼（Jozef Króner 饰）对此并不关心，妻子的唠叨已经让他足够烦恼。托尼的妹妹嫁给军官后生活大有改观，托尼也借妹夫的权利，获赠一纸批文，得到了大街边一家犹太商店的所有权。店主是一位78岁的犹太寡妇劳特曼（Ida Kaminska 饰），耳聋眼花，托尼与她夹缠不清之际始发现这家商店徒有空壳，早已没有多少货物，然而照顾劳特曼可以得到犹太组织的酬劳，托尼于是瞒着妻子在店中帮工，对外却宣称自己是店长。不久，德国人开始把犹太人收押后运往集中营，托尼想要藏起劳特曼，但心中经历着巨大的煎熬。商店外，犹太人在纪念碑下集中出发，商店内，托尼面对不明所以的老妇借酒浇愁……　　本片获1966年奥斯卡最佳外语片奖。