"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide "The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson "my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
A group of immigrants (Pandi, Murugan, Afsal and Kumar) are detained by the local state police, tortured and forced to admit to a crime they have no knowledge of. When all hope seems to be lost, a policeman from their hometown speaks on their behalf at the court hearing, setting them free. The policeman asks for a return favor and the boys oblige, oblivious to the ill fate that awaits them. As they unwittingly bear witness to a political treason, the system seeks to silence them, at any cost. But Pandi is determined to be heard.
菜鸟律师班戴利揭发了一桩弊案。他所任职的法律事务所执行长凯勒，涉嫌侵占客户遗产。凯勒买通证人凯洛琳作伪证而获判无罪。媒体将班描写成一个利用吹哨者法案来勒索雇主的人。班在失业之余，还罹患一种罕见的精神疾病：词语替换障碍。他无法使用正确词汇与人交谈，甚至口出秽言，于是他开始回避与任何人的接触。某天，凯洛琳突遭杀害，她的前夫推定她是因作伪证而遭灭口，如果证实当年为误判，这不仅能还班的清白，更能将凯勒定罪。班必须再次坐上他最恐惧的证人席，在媒体虎视眈眈、公众旁听之下，接受一而再、再而三的审问。
In 1815, an American Legend, whose wife has fallen deathly ill, leaving his young children to survive on their own, must fight his way back to them across the many perils found in the Savage Lands of the wild frontier.
从近处看，米克尔似乎在欲望的笼罩中四处走动：找到他失踪的猪，获得生物学证明，在菜子沙漠中打破孤独。 但是，更进一步，米克尔似乎反而吸引了保罗。
1947年，刘邓大军挺进大别山。为了强渡汝河，我军首长下令炸掉辎重，炮团长（王志刚 饰）违令不炸，被旅长方军（王丹华 饰）撤职。此时敌军长白建业（周楚 饰）已在汝河两岸布兵夹击，经过激战，我军与游击队会师。方军见到分别多年的母亲（苏辉 饰），知晓家中变故。深秋，敌人大面积封山，妄图用经济封锁置我军于死地。次年春，大反攻开始了，方妈意外发现方家坪区长来弟（于力 饰）正是自己多年前被人卖掉的孙女也就是方军的女儿。可情急中，还未相认，来弟就随大军走了。随着战事的推进，白建业深感大势已去，准备逃跑，得知消息的来弟疾速给部队报信，途中遭袭负伤，弥留之际，她拿出一只妈妈牺牲前留给她的耳环......
