杰克(乔治·克鲁尼 George Clooney 饰)是一名来自美国的战地记者,充满了鲜血和硝烟的一战结束后,杰克终于能够重新回到前线,报道波茨坦会议的相关新闻。不过,杰克此行还有另外一个十分重要的目的,那就是寻找与他曾经有过一段短暂情缘的德国女子莱娜(凯特·布兰切特 Cate Blanchett 饰)。奇迹般地,杰克和莱娜重逢了,之后,杰克得知莱娜那失踪已久的丈夫艾米尔(克里斯蒂安·奥利佛 Christian Oliver 饰)被卷入了复杂的政治斗争之中。
一名美国士兵被枪杀的案件让杰克意识到事情必有蹊跷,他几次想要调查,却遭到了军方的阻挠和警告。与此同时,杰克的好友帕特里克上尉(托比·马奎尔 Tobey Maguire 饰)所表现出的异常举动亦传达出了某些秘密的讯息。
Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract need for guidance of Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
在德州某屠宰场,肥胖的女工正在案板切肉,突然感到腹中剧痛,原来身怀有孕的她羊水已破,产下一个畸形儿,遗弃在垃圾箱,后来被清洁工救起。N年后,一群年轻人驾车路过这里。刚从越南前线归来的艾瑞克(马修?波莫 Matthew Bomer 饰)刚与未婚妻克莉希(乔丹娜?布鲁斯特 Jordana Brewster 饰)团聚,就得知弟弟迪恩(泰勒?汉德雷 Taylor Handley 饰)又要去前线,他本想陪弟弟共赴沙场。但迪安在女友贝莉(迪奥拉?拜尔德 Diora Baird 饰)的劝说下准备将入伍证烧掉,他们为此产生了争执。这时,他们遭到了飙车党挑衅。后来,为首的女孩竟然被警察击毙。警察霍伊特(R?李?艾尔米 R. Lee Ermey 饰)拦住了他们的车子,把他们带到了令人毛骨悚然的屠宰场,开始了惨无人道的折磨……
与Stefan Uher和Elo Havatta一样,Eduard Grecner也是60年代斯洛伐克新浪潮电影的缔造者之一。他的三部影片《一周七天》(1964)《尼绒月亮》(1965)和这部《徳拉克的回归》都是斯洛伐克新浪潮电影的代表作。这部叙事方法独特带有明显意识流风格的黑白影片甚至间接影响到了后来法国导演格里耶在捷克拍摄的两部影片《说谎的人》和《Eden and After》。
A special place in the development of feature films is reserved for Eduard Grecner, the creator of just one good film, Dragon Returns (Drak sa vracia, 1967), titled after the nickname of the lead character. After his initial work with Uher, Grecner made his mark as a proponent of the so-called "intellectual" film, the antithesis of the sociologically, or rather, socially critical film. Grecner's great role model was Alan Resnais, a young French filmmaker who sought to introduce Slovakia to the idea of film as a labyrinth in which meanings are created not by stories, but by complex configurations of dialogue, shots, and various layers of time, thus differentiating film from both literature and theater. In Dragon Returns―the story of a solitary hero who is needed by villagers living far in the mountains, but who is rejected by them at the same time because of his detachment―Grecner brought the tradition of lyricized prose to life through a whole series of formal aesthetic techniques. Alain Robbe-Grillet immediately developed this idea in the film shot in Bratislava The Man Who Lies (Slovak: Muz, ktory luze; French title: L'homme qui ment; 1968), and perfected it in Eden and After (Eden a potom, 1970).