A young blind woman is pursued by a maniac while staying with family in their country manor
故事发生在1939年,当纳粹德国毫不顾忌地入侵捷克斯洛伐克之后,捷克外交官马萨里克(卡瑞尔·罗登 Karel Roden 饰)在美国找到了庇护。在信心和意志受到沉重打击的情况下,马萨里克躲进了一家精神病院,与坚韧生存的决心进行着内心的斗争。在这个困境中,德国精神科专家施泰因医生(汉斯·齐施勒 Hanns Zischler 饰)的帮助下,马萨里克逐渐开始恢复。他不甘被困在这个病院,而是积极参与外交斗争,试图阻止第二次世界大战的爆发。
尽管马萨里克付出了艰辛的外交努力,但不幸的是,二战还是爆发了。然而,他并没有放弃,仍然奋战在前线,试图解决国内和国际的问题,努力维护捷克斯洛伐克的利益。这是一段充满战斗精神和坚韧不拔的历史故事,展现了一个人在困难时刻的不屈不挠。
Ken Russell's Most Unusual Film
It is hard to believe that Ken Russell was able to get this one "green-lighted" for release by a major American distributer as it is quite simply one of the strangest films to ever grace a screen! Russell, ever the visionary, takes the not so off-target view that Franz Liszt the pop star of his day and then offers viewers a comic book version of ...