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　　1945年的8月，美国分别在日本的广岛和长崎投下两颗原子弹。这种前所未见、杀伤力巨大的武器虽然加快了战争结束的步伐，却将人类带入新一轮的恐慌之中。二战过后，东西方两大阵营相继展开核武器竞赛，继美国之后，苏联、英国、法国、中国、以色列相继完成核武器的开发。迄至于今，世界上已有9个国家掌握了这项技术，核弹头数量一度达到6万枚之多。这些恐怖武器成为悬在人类头顶上的达摩克利斯宝剑，任何的误判、失误乃至疯狂都会引发人类文明的毁灭。然而重要的原料如铀、钚等却通过各种渠道流出，人们通过核武器相互制衡，甚至不惜将彼此带至深渊……

　　两个来自不同家庭环境的孩子，因为同样的孤独，走在了一起，小提琴声是他们沟通的桥梁。由于家庭的因素，两个孩子离家出走，去寻找童年的梦想，产生出一种别样的感情。

　　宁静的小城，纯真的岁月，全城高考的紧张气氛凝聚的高中，由一场大胆的表白掀起了全校传递情书的风潮，一封知名不具的仰慕信展开了一个故事……

　　Two differences between this Austrian version and the generally available American version are immediately obvious: they differ both in their length and in the language of the intertitles. The American version is only 1,883 metres long - at 18 frames per second a difference of some 7 minutes to the Austrian version with 2,045 metres. Whereas we originally presumed only a negligible difference, resulting from the varying length of the intertitles, a direct comparison has nevertheless shown that the Austrian version differs from the American version both in the montage and in the duration of individual scenes. Yet how could it happen that the later regional distribution of a canonical US silent film was longer than the "original version"?
　　The prevalent American version of Blind Husbands does not correspond to the version shown at the premiere of 1919. This little-known fact was already published by Richard Koszarski in 1983. The film was re-released by Universal Pictures in 1924, in a version that was 1,365 feet (416 metres) shorter. At 18 frames per second, this amounts to a time difference of 20 minutes! "Titles were altered, snippets of action removed and at least one major scene taken out entirely, where von Steuben and Margaret visit a small local chapel." (Koszarski)
　　From the present state of research we can assume that all the known American copies of the film derive from this shortened re-release version, a copy of which Universal donated to the Museum of Modern Art in 1941. According to Koszarski the original negative of the film was destroyed sometime between 1956 and 1961 and has therefore been irretrievably lost. This information casts an interesting light on the Austrian version, which can be dated to the period between the summer of 1921 and the winter of 1922. Furthermore, the copy is some 200 metres longer than the US version of 1924. If one follows the details given by Richard Koszarski and Arthur Lennig, this means that, as far as both its date and its length are concerned, the Austrian version lies almost exactly in the middle between the (lost) version shown at the premiere and the re-released one.A large part of the additional length of the film can be traced to cuts that were made to the 1924 version in almost every shot. Koszarski describes how the beginning and the end of scenes were trimmed, in order to "speed up" the film. However, more exciting was the discovery that the Austrian version contains shots that are missing in the American one - shots/countershots, intertitles - and furthermore shows differences in its montage (i.e. the placing of the individual shots within a sequence). All this indicates that Die Rache der Berge constitutes the oldest and most completely preserved material of the film.

　　一名律师很没原则地接下了无德客户的委托，因此和道德感强烈的父亲站到的对立面，而这位前任法官也有着一段往事。

　　人到中年，纳珀拉斯（马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 Marcello Mastroianni 饰）开始体会到了人生的无奈和命运的无常。一日，在一列火车上，纳珀拉斯遇见了一个长相美艳的女子，他深深的为女子的美艳所着迷，女子似乎也对纳珀拉斯颇为中意，正在两人情意绵绵之时，女子却突然走下了停止的火车，惊讶的纳珀拉斯尾随其后。
　　追随着女子的脚步，纳珀拉斯来到了一家大饭店，走进饭店，展现在纳珀拉斯面前的是一个名符其实的“女人城”。在这座女人城里，纳珀拉斯经历了一番充满了痛苦的奇异旅程，在质疑、拷问和折磨之间，纳珀拉斯早已经无法分辨，这里的一切究竟是梦境还是现实。