一文不名的青年丹尼（Anthony Ilott 饰）偶然得知他在偏远的西佛尼亚州山村还有亲戚的消息，难眠于是在一个阳光明媚的日子里，难眠丹尼带着女友托妮（Aqueela Zoll 饰）以及维克（Rollo Skinner 饰）吉莉安（Roxanne Pallett 饰）、罗德（Billy Ashworth 饰）等朋友来到了幽静而神秘的霍布温泉庄园。该庄园建于20世纪初，虽然老旧却不失典雅庄严。号称丹尼表兄妹的杰克森（Chris Jarvis 饰）和萨莉（Sadie Katz 饰）殷勤接待了一行人。快乐无忧的年轻人们纵情玩耍，口无遮拦，却不知晓这里隐藏着怎样可怕而惊人的秘密。对丹尼来说，原本是继承家产的愉快旅程，而今变成了遭受可怕恶魔猎杀的狩猎游戏……
回复 :1944年9月底，悲剧性的华沙起义已接近尾声，一支波兰“国家军”在中尉查德拉（Wienczyslaw Glinski 饰）带领下驻防一栋破败的建筑。华沙市内被德军分块切断，与家人失散的作曲家米考只好在这支30人小队中栖身。悬殊的军事差距让战士们心灰意懒，米考的钢琴声有些怪异的飘荡在废墟上空。德军的小型攻势很快让队伍无法招架，全员进入下水道转移阵地。波兰战士们在没有饮食的下水道中茫然前行，德军不时投放毒气，有一些战士疯掉了，但更多人死在了下水道中。查德拉的队伍很快迷失了方向，战士们也分别迷失在暗无天日的下水道中……本片获1957年戛纳电影节评委会大奖。是导演安杰依·瓦伊达（Andrzej Wajda）战争三部曲的第二部。
回复 :This is an interesting yet bizarre little tale of a fictional (as far as I know, anyway) experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger work-force/army, etc. It's a very in-depth character study of the main character, who tries to fit into a world that she (now 'he') doesn't really understand, especially since she's now a man ... Stalin dislikes the results of the experiments and has the scientist killed. The main character then goes off to live a life as a simple, unknown everyday Soviet, but is inexplicably drawn into larger and larger schemes (somewhat reminiscent of "Forrest Gump" in that way). (s)He has run-ins with different important characters, including his ex-boyfriend from his days of being a woman, as well as going on a demented quest for the nurse with whom he possibly fell in love after the operation... However, he is trapped in his life as an important Soviet married man, and in the end makes a huge sacrifice for his country (unwillingly), and the movie goes from there to an ending that is possibly happy, yet still somehow incredibly depressing.
回复 :30歲的維特在西里西亞的建築設計公司工作，某日接到家裡的來信，敦促他回鄉探望生病的父親。維特的故鄉是在華沙附近的小城鎮，當他抵達時才知道父親只是藉口患病希望他回來承擔家庭責任。但維特討厭他們的生活方式，他的父親是個酒鬼，他的妹妹貝拉是個花癡，他的姑媽髒亂而揮霍，維特要到外地工作來滿足他們的花費。雖然距前作《水晶的結構》只有兩年，但波蘭的政局已起了變化。華迪洛．哥穆爾卡已經下台，愛德華．蓋萊克成為共黨第一書記。蓋萊克提出努力提高生活水平的政策，但是未獲得波蘭人的信任。影片主題是逃避。維特擺脫家人到另一個城市就業；母親早就逃到國外；父親酗酒；妹妹透過性行為。贊祿西不是一個悲觀主義者，他通過電影建議我們應該努力改善我們的生活和工作，而不是後退，或沉迷於不能實現的幻想。
