搏击新起之秀布兰顿平静的生活因为其兄的意外被杀而被打乱，其兄随身携带、属于黑帮老大的巨额现金也不翼而飞……在卷入还债风波之余，布兰顿更发现其兄欠下了大笔赌债。为谋出路，对哥哥的死深感内疚的布兰顿投靠了多年不曾来往的残疾老父，并在这个名不见经传的小镇上掀起了一股搏击热。他能摆脱黑帮老大的纠缠吗？不甘平淡的布兰顿凭借了自己的善良、勇敢以及智慧赢得了甜蜜的爱情，也缔造着属于自己的未来。

Young Felix grows up as an inside spectator at cycling races, a bizarre environment where violence and drugs seem to reign. Following his father's footsteps, Felix discovers that his body is not made for the game

一个挪威家庭入住拉帕尔马岛的一家酒店。当一位年轻的研究人员发现位于度假天堂中心的火山有异常活动时，人们担心火山喷发会引发世界上最大的海啸，情绪很快变得混乱。

　　一个挪威家庭入住拉帕尔马岛的一家酒店。当一位年轻的研究人员发现位于度假天堂中心的火山有异常活动时，人们担心火山喷发会引发世界上最大的海啸，情绪很快变得混乱。

　　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.