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.
亚当(马丁·巴赫 Martin Buch 饰)和妻子结婚多年,两人之间的感情早就已经被时间消磨的所剩无几。一天,亚当听闻了有一家换妻俱乐部,于是决定去探访一番,以找回往日的激情。在俱乐部里,亚当邂逅了名为派翠西亚(娜塔莉·玛杜诺 Natalie Madueño 饰)的美丽女子,被她迷得神魂颠倒。
派翠西亚和男友帕特里克(埃米尔·伯克·哈特曼 Emil Birk Hartmann 饰)一起来到俱乐部,两人为的就是寻求刺激。这一对俊男靓女自然受到俱乐部里其他成员的追捧,然而,帕翠西亚却发现,相比起女人,自己的男友似乎对男人更感兴趣。腰缠万贯的富豪杨恩(拉斯马斯·伯托夫特 Rasmus Botoft 饰)和太太也来到了俱乐部中,想不到这疯狂的举动却让他们找回了曾经的真心。
A pediatrician and an overseas doctor, meet at a wedding in Philadelphia, but the long distance, family, and their friends may hinder their budding romance.