智利影史十部最佳影片之一. 和<一个孤独男孩纪事>一样都是60年代拉美新电影运动的代表作.
A young boy mourns the loss of his newborn brother when the baby dies. At the baby's wake, the child is given paper wings to symbolize his union with the angels of heaven. The funeral takes place after the wake turns into a drunken affair. When the baby's paper wings are left behind, the boy tries to give the wings back to his dead brother for fear the child will not go to heaven. The young boy also saves a pigeon from being tortured at the hands of other sadistic children in this feature heavy with symbolic and religious overtones.
1941年的北非战场,英德两军激战正酣,英军节节败退。布兰保下士(Franchot Tone 饰)被坦克遗落,蹒跚进入埃及人法瑞德的女王酒店,而几乎同时,德意联军指挥部进驻此处。布兰保乔装酒店服务生达沃斯伺机逃脱,意外发现隆美尔元帅居然近在咫尺,而他所假扮的达沃斯更是德军间谍,布兰保决定留下以便探听德军补给计划的“五墓行动”详情,同时也对酒店的法国女招待姆丝(Anne Baxter 饰)产生情愫。
不久女王酒店又迎来了一批英军俘虏,布兰保与对方取得联系并最终打探到“五墓行动”的真相,然而一直对姆丝有所企图的德军军官施威格(Peter van Eyck 饰)对他产生了怀疑,布兰保情报在手,却因姆丝要面对国家命运与个人情感的沉重考验。
By 1820, Edmund Kean is the most admired Shakespearan actor. But if his art is peerless, his free lifestyle is ill thought of, particularly by the high society. Kean has fallen passionately in love with Countess Elena de Koefeld, the wife of the ambassador of Denmark. Elena loves him too but hesitates to give up her rank in society and follow Kean. On the other hand, Anna, a rich heiress who refuses to marry Lord Mewill, the husband chosen by her parents, confesses her love for Kean and decides to become an actress like him... The aristocrats, outraged by Edmund's profligate ways, decide to boycott his performances and his career is broken. Kean does not recover from such a blow and, on a stormy night, dies in Elena's arms.