狄德利希·赫斯林是奈泽西小城造纸厂老板的儿子。他从小欺软怕硬,害怕权势,又追求权势。他爱在老师面前打小报告,以看到别人挨批评而高兴。上了寄宿学校后,他更多的接触到女孩。当他获得他的爱情后,却拒绝与之结婚,因为她还有另外一个追求者,因为被他认为不够纯洁。他也拿到了博士学位。但不是为了就职或进行学术研究,而是为了追求金钱势力。他父亲去世后,由他接替父亲当造纸厂的老板。他见风使舵,周旋于自由党人和社会民... 《臣仆》是亨利希·曼批判现实主义文学的代表作。导演试图通过影片作一次人的本性的揭露。通过巧妙的蒙太奇和画面的叠化,对“臣仆精神”进行了无情的讽刺。当表现狄德利希·赫斯林的奴性时,利用,利用了俯视镜头,把他低三下四跪近皇帝的样子缩成蛆虫般大小。表现他以势欺人时,又利用了仰视镜头,把他放大到巨人一般,将帝国时代奴颜卑膝,可鄙而危害社会的德国小市民的典型刻画地淋漓尽致,
36 岁的阿里斯在父亲将他赶出家门后开始住在自己的车里。他在街上刮胡子,吃他母亲带到车上的食物,并申请他母亲在报纸上为他标记的招聘广告。在经历了一系列的拒绝之后,他开始挨家挨户推销 Karnaval 品牌的地毯清洁剂。艾莉丝和“Karnaval”之间形成了不寻常的纽带。卡纳瓦尔甚至搬来与阿里斯住在一起,占据了他汽车的前排座位。在这次新的冒险中,阿里斯遇到了一位名叫德梅特的婚礼蛋糕师。自从母亲去世后,她就和父亲住在一起,梦想着骑着摩托车搬到伊斯坦布尔,在那里开一家面包店。
富有的中年人M结束出差准备回国,在机场,他目睹了一位年轻的阿拉伯男子在安检时引发的纷争。在一场无关紧要的争吵后,M一路跟随着这位年轻人,并在飞行过程中警觉地观察着他的一举一动。年轻人很快注意到M的行为,挑衅地看着他,神秘低语“你什么也没错过!” 一系列令人不安的事件接踵而至。M变得疑神疑鬼,疑心他的生活里存在着一个更大的阴谋。他怀疑年轻人在跟踪他,甚至可能入侵了家里的安防系统,这一切让他安全感尽失。在浏览阴谋论网站时,他对自身危险的处境和脆弱的社会秩序变得深信不疑。 M的女朋友认为他的疑虑实在是大惊小怪,并意识到两人的关系已经走入虚无。一位同事和M有同样的顾虑,却更担心M自己的行为。M决定直面日益严峻的威胁。他坚信恶魔在夜晚现身。于是他设下陷阱,决心迎接他认为即将降临的危险。
SISANJE is a story of a young Belgrade high school math champ Novica who gets seduced into the world of skinheads by their charismatic leader Relja. Novica joins the gang of racist skinheads in an attempt to overcome the geek status in school but soon enough he is sucked into the world of racism, violence and hooliganism, the skinhead movement takes him over and eventually he starts climbing up the ladder in the skinhead hierarchy.
Far from Tel Aviv and big city crimes, Daphna, 40, a promising police officer with a big mouth, finds herself in the small town of Afula dealing with petty crimes, seeking shade from the scorching heat, taking care of her aggressive cat, but more importantly, dodging the nagging question:" When are you going to get married, and have children?". The disappearance of Orly Elimeleh, a beautiful and wild 36 year-old army widow and former beauty queen, soon raises another troubling question for Daphna - why isn't anybody looking for her? This indifference towards Orly's uncertain fate shakes Daphna to the core as she begins to identify with her and to suspect the worst. Her concern gradually consumes her life, blurs her reality and causes her to question whether she is just imagining things, or is she on the contrary, the only one seeing things clearly. Matan, the younger 34 year-old son and "black sheep" of the powerful Oheyon's, Orly's late husband's family, seems to be the only one who ...
TRANSMITZVAH is a love story between siblings. They exhibit their wounds, exchange the pieces of each other’s puzzle, and complete (or start) the process of reaffirming their own identity. Rubén –the Singmans’ youngest son– challenges tradition by deciding to have a Bat Mitzvah instead of a Bar Mitzvah. Twenty years later, Rubén –now MUMY SINGER– returns to their hometown as a famous Yiddish singing star. After a sad event in the family, MUMY loses her voice and, with the help of her brother EDUARDO, tries to complete the path to adult life. A comedy with a jolly, playful, and musical dialogue about MUMY SINGER, and her trip to the past to make herself up, avoiding shortcuts and labels. The journey to who we really are can’t be avoided and must necessarily be taken.