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.

值英玛褒曼诞辰百年纪念，受其启蒙的德国新电影领军人物之一冯佐妲，回溯大师的一生传奇。她走访镜头前后与大师合作无间的莉芙乌曼、深受其影响的新一代电影人包括奥利维亚阿萨耶斯、鲁宾奥士伦、卡洛斯索拉，及褒曼的儿子等，从他们的真知灼见，呈现褒曼的立体人像。本纪录片亦辑选了褒曼的珍贵片段、探讨其电影主题、到访其灵感泉源之地如斯德哥尔摩皇家戏剧院、以至回顾因税务问题而流亡德国的十年岁月，冯佐妲凭女性独有眼光和触角，层层剖析褒曼复杂的内心世界及光影迷思。

本片出自德国新浪潮电影代表人物之一，《铁皮鼓》导演沃尔克·施隆多夫之手，是一部向法国著名导演让·梅尔维尔致敬的经典作品。影片描写第一次世界大战期间，高贵的索菲女伯爵爱上了一位普通士兵，但动荡的时代，因为这段恋情却给两人带来了可怕的灾难，影片悲伤而凄凉，是导演沃尔克·施隆多夫除《铁皮鼓》以外，最被人认同的大师作品……

　　1960年，以色列宣布抓捕到前纳粹德国高官、素有“死刑执行者”之称的阿道夫·艾希曼，并于1961年在耶路撒冷进行审判。已在美国居住多年的著名犹太女哲学家汉娜·阿伦特（巴巴拉·苏科瓦 Barbara Sukowa 饰）受《纽约人》邀请为此次审判撰稿。当汉娜·阿伦特前往耶路撒冷观看审判后，却在艾希曼的阐述、民意和自己的哲学思考之间发现了分歧。当阿伦特将艾希曼当年的行为提高到哲学的高度，她的文章不出所料地引发了社会上的恶评和抨击，一些汉娜·阿伦特的老友甚至和她绝交反目。这个当年海德格尔门下最得意的女学生在急风骤雨中想全身而退，却发现一切都已经不像自己预计的那样简单。

一个曾参加越战的美国大兵来到德国充当雇佣杀手。其实他本来就是德国人，回德国就是回家。在慕尼黑的黑道上，有着形形色色的怪人，如客厅里摆放巨大游戏机的母亲，命数已到的中年男妓，贩卖毒品和色情刊物的女子，等等。