故事发生在二十世纪初的墨西哥革命中。一辆长途马车里，过激高贵的先生女士们对一位沉默寡言的农民大放厥词，过激然而突然农民摇身一变，显出家庭式匪帮头目胡安（Rod Steiger 饰）的真面目。胡安打劫后路遇爱尔兰革命军爆破专家约翰（James Coburn 饰），后者的爆破能力令抢劫梅萨维德银行如探囊取物，于是胡安苦苦尾随，不经意间却卷入了配合维拉革命军的梅萨维德暴动。胡安如愿与约翰搭档洗劫银行，但他所有的收获却是解放150名政治犯人。政府军上校刚特率军镇压革命，胡安与革命队伍付出了惨痛的代价。在逆境中，约翰与胡安产生了真正的革命情谊，二人在前往美国的路上折返阻击刚特上校，当约翰中弹之时，这位老战士看到了昔日在爱尔兰的温馨场景……本片获1972年意大利大卫奖最佳导演奖。
回复 :During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' . Written by Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>In 1865, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the union soldiers POW Captain Harding, Neb and Herbert escape in a balloon during a storm with two confederate prisoners, Sergeant Pencroft and the journalist Spilett. The uncontrollable wind takes the balloon to a mysterious island in the South Pacific in the area of New Zealand. Captain Harding self-proclaims the leader of the group and they look for food; sooner they discover that they are stranded in an island. Further, they are attacked by a giant crab that becomes their first meal. Along the days, they build a shelter and finds that the island is inhabited by giant animals. A couple of days later, they find two castaways on the beach, the aristocratic Lady Mary Fairchild and her sexy niece Elena. Later they find a trunk with weapons and instruments like sextant and shelter with a journal of a man left alone in the island by pirates. When the pirate vessel arrives in the island, they are helped by Captain Nemo of the Nautilus, a submarine that had supposedly sunk in the coast of Mexico eight years ago. Nemo is famous as the man that tried to end strike among man. When the volcano begins activity, they need to leave the island to save their lives. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
回复 :斯特凡、茱莉亚和托比亚斯这三个兄弟姐妹过着舒适的中产阶级生活。从表面上看，他们做得很好，但所有三个人都越来越意识到他们的生活中存在着差距，有些事情不对劲，有些事情必须改变。41岁的斯特凡是一位成功的飞行员，一位真正的女士；到目前为止，他一直过着无忧无虑的享乐主义者的生活。但是突然之间，他的健康状况就不复存在了；而且，与他在早先的一桩婚外情中所生的女儿维姬的一次邂逅使他偏离了轨道。44岁的茱莉亚和丈夫在意大利度假时，开始照顾一只被车撞的街头狗。突然，她儿子去世的痛苦追上了她。34岁的托比亚斯嫁给了一位职业女性。他一直在照顾他们的三个孩子，似乎无法完成学业；现在他的兄弟姐妹决定他也应该照顾他们生病的父亲。爱德华·伯杰的电影描绘了三个人寻找幸福和内心平静。由于这三个集中的性格研究，形象出现了一个不安全的一代在一个快速变化的世界。The three siblings Stefan, Julia and Tobias lead comfortable middle-class lives. Outwardly, they are doing well, but all three are becoming more and more aware that there are gaps in their lives, that something is not right, and that something has to change. Stefan, 41, is a successful pilot and a real ladies man; up to now he has always led the life of a carefree hedonist. But suddenly his health will not play along anymore; moreover, an encounter with his daughter Vicky, whom he fathered in an earlier affair, throws him off course. While holidaying in Italy with her husband, Julia, 44, begins taking care of a street dog that’s been hit by a car. All of a sudden the pain of her son’s death catches up with her. Tobias, 34, is married to a career-orientated woman. He has been taking care of their three children and cannot seem to finish his studies; now his siblings have decided that he should also take care of their sick father.Edward Berger’s film portrays three people in search of happiness and inner peace. As a result of these three concentrated character studies, the image emerges of an insecure generation in a rapidly changing world.
回复 :一位維權女律師公然抨擊政權盲目鎮壓伊朗民間團體，換來律師牌照被吊銷，而她的記者丈夫也被迫逃匿。前路茫茫，她唯有設法逃離伊朗，但要獨自應付重重困難，既有官僚制度的欺壓，亦有針對女性的社會不公。導演借女主角的故事來比喻自己被政府打壓的遭遇，所以本片的拍攝過程只能低調進行。導演身兼監製及編劇，在這樣不利的環境下仍有膽量去批判現今伊朗社會。雖然在康城影展一種關注單元中勇奪導演大獎，但卻因其敢言作風而被禁止離國。
