拳击手大卫•科登(Jamie Smith 饰)独自住在一间简陋的公寓出租房内,窗户对面住着一个美丽的舞女格萝蕾拉(Irene Kane 饰),大卫渐渐为之所吸引。
某晚大卫比赛归来,突然发现格萝蕾拉正要被人强暴,他冲进去拯救了心上人。原来强暴者是格萝蕾拉所在夜总会的老板(Frank Silvera 饰),为了生计不得不忍辱负重。两个失意之人情谊相合,遂约定离开伤心地,寻找他们的幸福。大卫外出筹集旅费,而夜总会老板在得知格萝蕾拉即将离开的消息时勃然大怒,派出打手绑架了她……
本片荣获1959年洛迦诺国际电影节最佳导演奖。
From the novel "At the Wolf's Table" by Rosella Postorino
Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer’s parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she’ll find refuge there. But one morning...
In 1970 when nearly all children with cancer die, an unconventional and brilliant oncologist breaks all the rules in an effort to revolutionize treatment methods and to provide housing and support to families of sick children.
Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he's fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City. To Gordon's dismay her future boss also happens to be her former lover, a celebrity Chef with oceanic eyes and a hit TV show. Good luck Gordon.