弗兰茨（赖纳•维尔纳•法斯宾德 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 饰）所工作的巡回展览团被非法取缔后他便无处可去。通过古董商马克思的介绍他接触了一个富人同性恋团体。在这里他认识了家里经营印刷产业的欧根（Peter Chatel 饰），两人逐渐坠入爱河。弗不久兰茨竟然神奇的中了50万的彩票，欧根得知后彻底抛弃了以前的朋友菲利普，而弗兰茨也为欧根身上的贵族气息深深迷恋而不能自拔。他用中奖得来的钱买了套房子和欧根同居，买奢侈用品，出入高档场所玩乐。此时欧根父亲经营的印刷厂遭遇破产危机，欧根诱使弗兰茨拿出10万入注救急，弗兰茨慷慨相助却没想欧根父亲在契约上做了手脚......

马格兰有着令人羡慕的生活，在她第二次怀孕，快当母亲的时间里，一切都在悄悄发生着变化。生完孩子后，马格兰的情绪日益失去控制，甚至出现了自杀倾向，大夫告诉马格兰的丈夫，她可能患了精神分裂症。为了减轻痛苦，马格兰开始转向镇定药和酒精……

屈丝特婆婆已经步入老年，孤寂而沮丧的心很渴望关怀与温情，但从自己软弱的儿子及媳妇那里，什么也得不到，女儿也忙于应付自己的事业和爱情，丝毫不顾及老人的内心需要。
偶然的机会，屈丝特婆婆得到了两个富有的中年人的友谊。在一家报社做发行主管的提曼先生和提曼夫人号称自己是共产主义者，并对屈丝特婆婆保证说会运用他们的报纸为她的丈夫恢复名誉。
出于感激，屈丝特婆婆毫不犹豫地加入了这个政治派系，积极配合他们的宣传活动。但不久，屈丝特婆婆发现，自己其实是被利用的宣传工具而已。愤怒之下，屈丝特婆婆又毅然和一个无政府主义者结成同盟，因为似乎这个人更有行动的可能。
当屈丝特婆婆在这个无政府主义者的陪同下来到报社的时候，这个家伙竟然拿出武器，要挟当局释放西德所有政治犯。
所有的闹剧都过去之后，屈丝特婆婆终于在一个守夜人那里得到了关怀和幸福甜美的爱情。

法斯宾达，是德国电影史上的怪才大师。二十岁起创作作品已遍及剧场、电影和电视，是早期德国新电影重要的一员。性格喜怒无常的他，感情生活扑朔迷离，男人女人都为他倾倒、自愿受他的奴役折磨。 37岁便因为嗑药酗酒过量致死，英年早逝更使他充满神奇色彩。 本片导演走访多位法斯宾达生前重要的合作夥伴和情人，尝试勾勒出这位传奇人物背后的深层影响， 带领观众走进法斯宾达如行走于刀锋上的创作主题与生命情调。

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.

本片是根据法斯宾德同名话剧改编。“卡策马赫尔”是德国当地人对外籍劳工的蔑称，暗示外籍工人的性行为就象一只发情的雄猫一样，有人甚至因此而将该片译为“阳具艺术家”。“局外人不仅只是必需忍受孤寂的侵蚀，同时也不得不去对抗来自群体的偏见和敌意，这是法斯宾德早期作品中的重要主题。”同时，影片移植于“反戏剧剧团”的带有先锋色彩的形式感也趋于成熟。世界著名电影刊物《画面与音响》的记者评论到：“看过《卡策马赫尔》之后可以断言，法斯宾德是一个真正的天才，他在戈达尔与施特劳布所做出的开创性业绩的基础上，正开拓着新的天地。”

德国慕尼黑，丈夫克里斯特告别了妻子亚丽安娜（Margit Carstensen 饰）与瘸腿女儿安吉拉（Andrea Schober 饰），赴奥斯陆公干，但他在半路中转，约会了情人并将其带到自己的乡间别墅。但他意外发现亚丽安娜与情人——自己的助手早已抵达别墅偷情，四人很快在尴尬的气氛中回过神来，坐到了一张桌子上享用晚餐。负责照料别墅的卡斯特与加百列母子注视着四人，内心各有不同的触动。当天夜里，安吉拉在保姆的陪伴下亦抵达别墅，她的出现让亚丽安娜为其腿疾绷紧的神经再次拉紧，气氛一时僵硬。
第二天夜里，安吉拉组织别墅里的所有八人进行一场叫做“中国轮盘赌”的问答游戏，分成两组的八人互相提问作答，牵出了各自内心隐藏的秘密。

In January 1978, just before shooting began on THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, German film scholar Peter W. Jansen brought a 16 mm film crew to Rainer Werner Fassbinder's house in Paris. The result, LIFE STORIES: A CONVERSATION WITH R.W. FASSBINDER, is the longest interview with the director ever recorded on film.

这是一部融合美国黑色片和法国新浪潮风格的作品，讲两个拍档联合策划大劫案的故事。在男人被他的女人出卖的时候，就像得了瘟疫一样，对什么都没感觉了……

故事发生在1978年的德国，埃尔文（沃尔克·斯彭格勒 Volker Spengler 饰）曾经是一个风华正茂的小伙，在经历了一场惊心动魄的变性手术之后，世上再也没有埃尔文了，有的只是一个名叫艾薇拉的姑娘。艾薇拉行如此极端之事是为了一个名叫安东（高夫莱德·约翰 Gottfried John 饰）的男人，他是她曾经的情人，可是如今，当艾薇拉再度找到安东时，安东的冷漠让她心碎。
安东不仅装作不认识艾薇拉，还和她的好友左拉（英格丽·卡文 Ingrid Caven 饰）发生了关系，这让艾薇拉无法接受。艾薇拉回到了曾今的妻子伊雷娜（伊丽莎白·崔森纳 Elisabeth Trissenaar 饰）的身边，希望能够回归家庭，却被妻子拒绝。人生接连遭受的艾薇拉彻底失去了活下去的信心和勇气，死亡成为了唯一的选择。

玛塔（玛吉特•卡斯滕森 Margit Carstensen 饰）和个性冷漠粗暴的父亲过着相依为命的生活，两人前往罗马度家，途中，父亲突发心脏病不幸身亡。玛塔并没有感到有多难过，相反，她第一次感受到了什么是自由。之后，玛塔邂逅了名为赫尔穆特（卡尔亨兹•伯恩 Karlhei nz Böhm 饰）的工程师，两人坠入了情网。
然而，赫尔穆特的个性和玛塔的父亲如出一辙，他不断的侮辱和虐待着玛塔，奇怪的是，玛塔似乎很享受这种虐待。玛塔和赫尔穆特携手步入了婚姻的殿堂，婚后，赫尔穆特对玛塔的虐待相比以前有过之而不及。最终，玛塔决定和自己的同事私奔，哪知道一场车祸不仅夺走了情郎的性命，还令玛塔失去了双腿。

When is a Western not really a Western? When it’s directed by Fassbinder! WHITY is only my sixth film from the so-called German wunderkind: I admire Fassbinder for his prolific and versatile output, though I’ve yet to be won over completely by a film of his; frankly I was hoping this would prove to be the one – but, as it turned out, I couldn’t have been more wrong! For the record, I’ve got four more titles from him to watch: still, considering my dismal experience with WHITY (especially since I had fully expected it to be the most accessible of the lot!), I don’t know when I’ll muster the courage to get to them now…even if DESPAIR (1978) is a reasonably enticing title, given the participation of Dirk Bogarde and the Vladimir Nabokov source.
To be fair, the Western ambiance is delivered in spades throughout. The film was stunningly shot in Widescreen – by Michael Ballhaus (later a valued collaborator of Martin Scorsese) – in Almeria, location site of many a Spaghetti Western. It generally has the right feel for time and place with regards to settings and wardrobe, while the all-important score is highlighted by a decidedly infectious riff. Even so, the repertoire of English-language ballads (the bulk of the film, of course, is in German) allotted to chanteuse/prostitute Hanna Schygulla – not to mention her own affected delivery – is inappropriately modern and comes across as unintentionally laughable! Schygulla was a fixture in Fassbinder’s work; the film also features Ron Randell (best-known, if at all, for playing Christ’s attorney[!] in Nicholas Ray’s KING OF KINGS [1961]) and Ulli Lommel (who later graduated to directing himself, notably TENDERNESS OF THE WOLVES [1973] and THE BOOGEYMAN [1980]).
The overriding pretentiousness at work here is palpable above all in the film’s lethargic, indeed deadly, pace (never have I seen a movie in which the characters moved more s-l-o-w-l-y!). Besides, it isn’t helped by unsympathetic (even annoying) characters – mostly members of a dysfunctional family (and particularly the pasty-faced, frizzy-haired sons of landowner Randell) – indulging in all manners of transgressions (from such commonly-depicted capital sins as greed, lust and murder down to nymphomania, masochism, interracial relationships and incest!). In the midst of all this is an unsavory gay subtext which, inevitably, seems to be on the agenda of virtually all directors so inclined in real-life (but becoming obviously more pronounced in the liberalized modern cinema)!
The plot, for what it’s worth, is reminiscent of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s THEOREM (1968) – coincidentally another gay parable – as the life of everyone involved is influenced in some way by the household’s black manservant (the character bears the ironic titular nickname but is also curiously underwritten and inexpressive), who’s actually the fruit of Randell’s illicit affair with his frumpy colored maid! The fact that each, in turn, pleads with him to slay the other could have turned this into a pointed black comedy – but the film is simply too labored and deliberately self-conscious for the subtlety intrinsic to such refined treatment...
In the end, one should note that 1971 saw a boom of arty Westerns with other such offerings as Alexandro Jodorowsky’s EL TOPO, Peter Fonda’s THE HIRED HAND and Robert Altman’s McCABE AND MRS MILLER. As for WHITY (whose shooting, by the way, inspired Fassbinder’s own BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE [1971]), I had owned the Fantoma DVD – which includes an Audio Commentary from Ballhaus and Lommel – for quite a while before actually sitting down to view it. I’d purchased the disc through the company’s own website during a sale but, as I said, could only manage to find a slot for it in my hectic/eclectic schedule after having enjoyed a couple of equally stylized (but far more satisfying) Spaghetti Westerns – DEATH SENTENCE (1968) and YANKEE (1966) – earlier this week.

二战时期的瑞士苏黎世，德国歌女Willie（汉娜·许古拉 Hanna Schygulla饰）和犹太作曲家Robert Mendelsson （吉安卡罗·吉安尼尼 Giancarlo Giannini 饰）相恋，而Robert的父亲Mendelsson则是一个帮助犹太人逃离德国的地下组织领导，他反对儿子和Willie的恋情，于是设下圈套让Willie留在了德国无法回到苏黎世，想借此来拆散二人。滞留德国的Willie只能靠唱歌维生，受到了许多德国人，甚至德国军官的喜爱。更得到了去电台录制音乐的机会，她唱的一首歌《Lili Marleen》更是让她成为了全德国士兵的梦中情人。这首歌曲陪伴着在前线的士兵们。而回到瑞士的Robert也没有放弃两人的爱情，他潜回德国和Willie相聚，不想却被纳粹所抓。而对Robert一往情深的Willie，又该如何利用她在德国的声望去拯救她的爱人呢？两人的爱情又将面临怎样的考验？

艾菲（汉娜·许古拉 Hanna Schygulla 饰）是一个年轻的充满了活力的姑娘，却在父母的安排之下嫁给了年长自己20岁的拜伦伯爵（沃尔夫冈·申克 Wolfgang Schenck 饰）。拜伦是一个野心勃勃的男人，眼睛里唯一能够看到的就是功名利禄，因此一心扑在事业和交际圈中，对待艾菲非常的冷淡。
一次偶然中，艾菲结识了拜伦的好友克莱姆帕斯上校（尤利·隆美尔 Ulli Lommel 饰），两人很快就坠入了情网之中。这段地下恋情维持了没多久，拜伦就带着艾菲搬家了。就在艾菲一位这段感情会被时间尘封时，拜伦却发现了两人留下来的情书，一怒之下，拜伦杀死了克莱姆帕斯，然而同艾菲离婚了。

艾米（布里奇特·米拉 Brigitte Mira 饰）是一名60岁的清洁女工，辛苦工作的她拿着微薄的工资，生活很是清贫。机缘巧合之下，她结识了40岁的阿里（El Hedi ben Salem 饰），他们一起跳了一支舞后阿里提出送艾米回家。夜深了，阿里错过了末班车，只得在艾米家留宿。两个孤独寂寞的人相见恨晚，秉烛夜谈，当艾米为此感到深深的疑虑时，阿里只是淡淡的安慰了她。果不其然，艾米留宿男人的事情很快传遍了大街小巷，邻居同事的指指戳戳教她如坐针毡，无奈的她只得编撰了一个谎言，她说阿里是她的未婚夫。这门婚事毫不意外的遭到了所有人的反对，大家尽己所能的排挤、诋毁这对夫妻，这使得他们决定外出旅行避避风头。回来后两人的境遇有所好转，并不是街坊邻居接纳了他们，而是因为他们有了新的排挤对象。没有了外界的压力，艾米和阿里的感情却又因为内部的矛盾而产生了裂痕。
影片用写实的手法展现了一个冷漠、刻薄的社会，探讨了这个社会之中存在的各种歧视以及人性之中孤独又灰暗的一面。

佩特拉（玛吉特·卡斯滕森 Margit Carstensen 饰）是一位小有名气的女画家，和丈夫结婚多年，两人养育了一个女儿。然而，随着时间的推移，佩特拉发现自己越来越看不起虚伪冷漠的丈夫，不自由的婚姻生活令她感到窒息，于是，她选择了离婚
经朋友西朵妮（Katrin Schaake 饰）的介绍，佩特拉结识了名为卡琳（汉娜·许古拉 Hanna Schygulla 饰）的美国女子，趣味相投的两人很快就彼此吸引，开始了她们的同居生活。佩特拉供养着卡琳，并且积极地将她引入时装模特的行列，然而，卡琳却将佩特拉的爱意视为束缚，最终她选择了离开。失去了卡琳，佩特拉的生活陷入一片混乱，渐渐走向崩溃的边缘。

曾经是一名警察的汉斯（汉斯·希尔斯缪勒 Hans Hirschmüller 饰）因为被妓女诬陷而丢掉了工作，为了糊口，心怀大志的他不得不成为了一名水果小贩。汉斯无法取得心爱姑娘的父母的信任和赏识，已经到了成家年龄的他最终娶了名叫伊尔姆加特（伊尔姆·海尔曼 Irm Her mann 饰）的女人。
自打结婚后，汉斯的人生正式走上的下坡路，伊尔姆加特的粗暴和无礼为汉斯的不如意雪上加霜。汉斯得了心脏病，在住院期间，独守空房的伊尔姆加特耐不住寂寞，和邻居安策尔（Karl Scheydt 饰）之间发生了不道德的关系。出院后的汉斯已经无力再沿街叫卖水果了，改为摆水果摊。一次偶然中，他与战友哈里（Klaus Löwitsch 饰）重逢了，尽管哈里给汉斯一家带来了不少的快乐，但他依旧无法阻止汉斯走向绝望。