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圣诞节，一个14岁的俄罗斯少女因难产而死在伦敦一家医院，俄裔助产士安娜觉得事有蹊跷，暗中调查少女的来历，却发现少女不但是一个偷渡客，而且还是深陷性交易的少女。 安娜在叔叔的指点下找到了偏僻的伦敦俄裔社区。原本，安娜只想向叔叔老朋友西蒙了解情况，但在偶遇神秘而阴郁的尼古拉之后，却发现真相超出想象的复杂。 西蒙原来是黑道家族的教父，尼古拉与其关系非浅，二人掌控着整个伦敦的地下网。在西蒙的授意下，尼古拉阻止安娜的调查，不想却把黑帮的罪恶隐情曝光，很快，意想不到的背叛、报复与谋杀发生了……。The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。