拿破仑战争时期，一个军官发现的一本旧书上记载着跟他祖父阿方索·范·沃登有关的故事，沃登是瓦龙部队的队长，他要寻找通往莫雷纳的捷径。在小酒馆里，他邂逅了两个伊斯兰公主，她们引诱他，但他醒来却发现自己已身在绞架。他被神秘人拯救，回家家乡之后，等待他的是更惊人的消息……

芝加哥退休工人Mike Laszlo受法庭传讯，从联合国组织发来的报告证明他曾是纳粹党卫队的行刑队长，在匈牙利犯下令人发指的暴行。Mike Laszlo是匈牙利移民，40年前来到美国。他在妻子死后辛苦带大的女儿Ann Talbot现在是一名刑事诉讼律师，离婚后带着小儿子 跟他一起生活。他对女儿说他没犯下被指控的罪行，Ann决定为父亲辩护。她相信父亲的清白，但是在法庭上发生的一切改变了她的想法，她找到了那个存有证据的八音盒……

讲述一部电影马上就要开机了，可男主角下落不明，于是大家一齐出动去找他。朋友找他因为要知道他的近况；导演找他因为电影在等他开机；妻子找他因为他已经六天没回家了，可是后来他们接到一个消息－他死了，那这一切该如何结束呢？

1965年荷蘭阿納姆電影節大獎
史高林莫斯基含自傳成份的第一部片，描寫一個不滿現狀的青年(史高林莫斯基親自扮演)在半天裡的心路歷程。安德烈要在短短數小時內決定參加為期兩年的兵役，抑或繼續學業和面對現實的社會？安德烈一直將他的身份與背景隱藏，不想向任何人揭露，就算同居女友泰蕾莎對他亦一無所知。安德烈與泰蕾莎之間的隔閡，正好暗示兩人之間面臨決裂。雖然安德烈答應接見他的軍官會依時報到，但冷靜下來時卻盤算有沒有其他值得留下的理由。即使有太多的失望與挫折：與泰蕾莎的愛情生活不如意，愛犬又因染上瘋狗症而被人道毀滅，安德烈並沒有準備離去的跡象，只是努力地找尋留下來的藉口。當安德烈不斷與他的朋友碰面，時間逐漸消逝，他亦不斷進行自我的鬥爭。影片發展下去，這個像夢境一般的旅程，漸漸演變成找尋自我的心路歷程。史高林莫斯基的電影皆以年青人面對的社會問題為中心，對心態的刻劃十分深入。

"The Hour of Crimson Rose" is a sweet, old-fashioned, time-travel story. A young girl of 1960's Warsaw, is travel through time, by the power of magic clock. She's send to late XIX-century Warsaw, and has to verify her point of view about history and human relationship. Adaptation of a book "for a nice girls", by director Halina Bielinska, came up with funny, nice-to-watch picture, with "old-movies" look and feeling. Starring Elzbieta Czyzewska, former bright polish movie star, and Lucyna Winnicka (starred in a few Jerzy Kawalerowicz movies). Note that "The Hour of Crimson Rose" is a black-and-white movie. The reason of using no color was obvious due to budgetary reasons, but it did well for a mood of a whole picture.

Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers.

The Polish director Aleksander Ford made an English-language film based on the novel in 1973. While it hewed closely to Solzhenitsyn's plot, the film was a critical and commercial failure.

The Polish director Aleksander Ford made an English-language film based on the novel in 1973. While it hewed closely to Solzhenitsyn's plot, the film was a critical and commercial failure.