视频简介
Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date. The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer. The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。旗人贵族后裔——莲花家道中落，身世飘零，和族亲旗人破落子弟洪爷相依为命。莲花好不容易在瑞王府站落脚跟，瑞王府却被军阀抄家，王爷自尽，只给了莲花一个水仙盆留个念想。莲花答应了车夫生子的求婚，可生子却在婚礼当天被败兵挟裹出城。生子的结义兄弟天和代生子娶了莲花。莲花与天和相爱了，他们在困苦生活中相守。莲花心高，想让天和过好日子，她借钱做生意赔了，为了还债，莲花只得拿出王爷临死前赠她的水仙盆卖掉。没想到这个水仙盆引起了古玩届的轰动。莲花找到懂行的洪爷帮忙，洪爷带着天和装富人卖水仙盆。莲花在寒冷中憧憬着有钱了就能跟天和幸福地相守，可天和却渐渐习惯了过有钱人的日子，还和戏子假戏真做，对莲花越来越冷漠。等意识到天和变了，莲花这才醒悟过来，却为时已晚，天和已经回不了头了。莲花一枪打破了水仙盆，天和疯了……。
