本片以1971年美国的“斯坦福监狱实验”为基础,根据马里奥•乔丹努的小说《黑盒子》改编。出租司机塔瑞克•法德(莫里兹•布雷多Moritz Bleibtreu 饰)看到报纸上一个征招心理实验对象的广告前去应聘,与其他19名各行各业各年龄段的男性应聘者被分为两组,本别扮演十二名囚犯和八名狱警,实施为时2周的模拟监狱实验,并各获4000德国马克报酬。实验前夕,塔瑞克回到自己两年前曾供职的报社,决定将实验过程中发生的情形写成报道出售。塔瑞克在实验中是囚犯77号,他依仗着实验中不准使用暴力的规定,故意挑起事端制造新闻。狱警博鲁斯(贾斯特斯•冯•多纳伊Justus von Dohnanyi 饰)不满塔瑞克的嚣张,在对囚犯的制裁中一步步确立自己的权威。二人的针锋相对为实验带来了不可预计的后果……
本片获德国电影奖年度电影及三项年度突出表现金奖——最佳男主角(莫里兹•布雷多)、场景设计及最佳男配角(贾斯特斯•冯•多纳伊)。。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.。