影片的时代背景落在30年代斯大林统治下的前苏联。科托夫（尼基塔·米哈尔科夫 Nikita Mikhalkov 饰）是红军的光辉领袖，瓜视拥有殷实家底和幸福家庭，瓜视正在与妻子玛露莎（英格波佳·达库内提 Ingeborga Dapkunaite 饰）、女儿一起在别墅中度过幸福时光。不料，一名不速之客闯进了这里。当他揭开层层乔装的外物时，人们认出了他——一个失踪了十年的没落贵族米迪亚（欧列格·米契柯夫 Oleg Menshikov 饰）。米迪亚的到来犹如地狱派来的使者，随着他娓娓道来的故事，米迪亚和科托夫之间的恩怨纠结、和玛露莎之间的陈年旧情以及随着时代而扭曲的人生，都在故事中一一展开。而更为残酷的是，他带来了一个令科托夫一家陷入绝境的消息……
冯乔
回复 :The Polish doco for the BFI’s Century of Cinema distinguishes itself from all the others in the series by being the only one not to have any film critics, academics, directors, etc providing a commentary. Instead it takes the refreshing route of having ordinary people of all ages talking about what’s special to them about movies – so we get some old folks describing their first trip to the cinema when a lot of people didn’t even know what a film was, memories of what it was like to go to the movies as children, teenagers, and adults before, during, and after WWII, and especially the key scenes from films that have made lasting impressions upon them (not unexpectedly, Wajda’s KANAL strikes a nerve), which are shown in accompaniment, so that it becomes the interviewees who ultimately decide what’s shown in the doco. This kind of stuff is what the ‘100 Years of Cinema’ celebration is really about.
尼尔扬
回复 :女友离去，乐队解散，失意的摇滚乐手乔塔（Nancho Novo 饰）决定从桥上跳下结束自己的生命。正在这时，一辆失控的摩托车从身后急速驶来，撞破护栏摔在桥下的沙滩上。乔塔急忙跑去营救，发现这名女性车手（Emma Suárez 饰）在剧烈的撞击之下丧失了记忆。鬼使神差之下乔塔谎称对方名叫丽莎，而自己则是她的男朋友。伤愈之后乔塔带着丽莎来到红松鼠度假区疗养，他小心编织着自认为天衣无缝的谎言，却没留神发现自己堕入一个深不见底的谜局……本片荣获1993年戛纳电影节外语片青年奖。
小村
回复 :此片讲述二次大战期间，在英军驻北非的军营里，一名残暴的指挥官为维持个人自尊而故意用非人的刑罚来惩戒违犯军规者，终于使一位不甘被其虐待的军人挺身而出与之对抗。导演悉尼．卢曼特以火爆性十足的手法来处理这个 “人与制度对抗"的故事，压力逼人而来，肖恩．康纳利在此演出了他的最高水准，是悉尼．卢曼特的名作之一。但本片拍得相当乾涩，娱乐性亦不算太强。
