Mavka, mermaid forest, and Lucas, a simple village boy, to love one another. But Lucas gave them a feeling for that, and was deprived of his musical gift - the ability to play the sopelke. Generous Mavka buy talent loved the price of his life.
Paris, 1315. The Tour de Nesle, a guard tower on the banks of the Seine, has become a symbol of mystery and fear. Each morning, at its base, the bodies of handsome young aristocrats are found floating in the river, all butchered by sword or arrow. One evening, two noblemen, Buridan and Philippe d'Aulnay, find themselves in the infamous tower, lured there on the expectation of a night of unbridled passion. Little do they realise that they are to be the next victims of a woman who is determined to take revenge against all men - Margaret of Burgundy, the present Queen of France. Although Philippe is killed, Buridan escapes, and intends to blackmail the Queen. Unless she makes him her prime minister, he will expose her crimes to Philippe's brother and her husband, King Louis X. When she moves to eliminate Burdan, Margaret makes a terrible discovery... In the twilight years of his long and pretty uneven career, the great avant-garde film director Abel Gance made a number of films which, whilst not as grand and artistically inspired as his early silent masterpieces (La Roue (1923), Napoléon (1927)), still compared very favourably with the work of his contemporaries. Of these, La Tour de Nesle is a film that still stands up remarkably well today - an ambitious historical drama based on the famous 1832 play by Alexandre Dumas. It makes a nice companion piece to Gance's subsequent historical romp, Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964). Needless to say, the film isn't to be commended on its historical accuracy. As any historian will tell you, the Alexandre Dumas version of French history is wildly fanciful, to say the least. However, this doesn't prevent La Tour de Nesle from being an entertaining and, at times, highly poignant, piece of cinema. Whilst the characterisation and dialogue leave much to be desired, the plot (a murky tale of cruel revenge and political intrigue) is gripping, and the film's artistic design is exceptional for a film of this period. Gance brings a strangely expressionistic touch to his use of colour and shade, something which adds to the darkly sinister nature of the plot, whilst imbuing the film with a striking sense of historical realism.
A propos, Gance's assistant director Nelly Kaplan makes her screen début in a small role, shortly before she herself embarked on a successful film making career.
The first story is about Nanda, a young man who leaves Calcutta to work as a postmaster in an isolated malaria-infested village. The postmaster is looked after by a young orphan girl, Ratan. His only solace in the village is in teaching Ratan how to read and write. The second story is about a student, Amulya, who returns to his village after finishing his exams. His widowed mother is very anxious for him to marry, and has already picked out a girl. He rejects his mother's choice and, being forced to choose some girl, marries a lively tomboy who is not ready to give up her freedom.
童话故事。 Однажды, после дождичка в четверг, у царя Авдея родился первенец. В тот же день родила мальчика и ключница Варвара, а в капусте был обнаружен новорожденный подкидыш. Всех троих нарекли Иванами - и Авдей приказал растить хлопцев вместе. Однако ключница сделала по-своему положила в царскую люльку своего Ивана, а двух других отдала разбойникам. Пройдет двадцать лет, прежде чем сын царевича победит Кощея Бессмертного, найдет отца и освободит Жар-птицу, которая станет прекрасной девушкой. Кроме всевозможных приключений в фильме много песен и танцев.
故事发生在17世纪中叶的美国,美丽的海丝特(森塔·伯格 Senta Berger 饰)遵循丈夫罗杰(汉斯·克里斯蒂安·布勒希 Hans Christian Blech 饰)的指示,只身一人来到了一座地处偏远的小镇生活,在这里,海斯特邂逅了名为亚瑟(洛乌·卡斯特尔 Lou Castel 饰)的牧师。海斯特和亚瑟之间产生了非常猛烈的化学反应,可是海斯特碍于自己已婚的身份,而亚瑟亦被自己牧师的职业所束缚,两人间虽然电光火石,但发乎情止于理,都没有进一步的举动。 直到有一天,海瑟特得知罗杰在一场海难之中死去了,恢复了自由之身的她对亚瑟的感情终于如同决堤的潮水一般,将所有的理智淹没了。之后,海斯特怀上了亚瑟的孩子,她遭到了逮捕,并冠以通奸罪的罪名,然而为了保全亚瑟,海斯特无论如何也不肯供出孩子父亲的名字。