在瓦尔拉姆·阿拉维泽下葬的第二天，他的尸体被人掘起来放在他家的窗前。挖墓的是一个女人，她在法庭上的供词和回忆使人们重新回到独裁者阿拉维泽残暴肆虐的年代。他将不计其数的无辜者冠以“人民公敌”的罪名投入监狱。阿拉维泽的儿子最后幡然省悟，亲自将父亲的尸体从山崖丢下了大河……本片中他使用令人惊叹的造型手段，以诗意的语言讲述了一个关于罪恶与惩罚、忏悔与醒悟的故事。本片是阿布拉泽三部曲的第三部，前两部风别为《愿望树》和《祈求》， 《悔悟》被认为是苏联电影改革的“第一只春燕”。40届戛纳电影节评委会大奖（1987年）
回复 :16岁的美丽少女阿贝尔（琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰）离开了让她倍感压抑的原生家庭，前往伦敦，投奔一个名叫布鲁斯（Jefferson Pascal 饰）男人。很快，这对小情侣就花光了所有的积蓄，为了维持生计，布鲁斯出海成为了一名走私犯，而阿贝尔则在误打误撞之中进了监狱，此时她震惊的发现，腹中已经怀上了布鲁斯的孩子。在强盗杰克（约翰·拉塞尔 John Russell 饰）的帮助之下，阿贝尔从监狱里逃了出来，之后被杰克卖到了剧院。在那里，阿贝尔邂逅了拉德克里夫公爵（理查德·格林尼 Richard Greene 饰），很快，两人结了婚，阿贝尔一跃成为了公爵夫人。就在这个节骨眼上，布鲁斯再度出现在了阿贝尔的面前，并且向她索要那个属于自己的孩子。
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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 :Max（Clive Owen）是贪恋肉欲之欢的男同性恋，德国纳粹对同性恋展开大规模的迫害之前，他一直过着随心所欲的生活，之后，他在同恋人Rudy逃亡时落入纳粹之手，为求自保，他隐瞒了自己的同性恋身份，并当着纳粹的面打死了Rudy。前往集中营的途中，Max 结识同道中人Horst（Lothaire Bluteau），对方力劝沉浸在悲痛中想报复的他凡事冷静，不久，两人被命令一起不停地搬运石头，慢慢地，他俩生出“柏拉图”恋情，因为身体微小的碰触也是禁忌。Horst染上流感，Max不忍看到他在这种情况下继续忍受非人折磨，与纳粹军官进行性交易换来感冒药，Horst得知后，情愿一死也不愿看到爱人的尊严被继续无情践踏。
