圣洛伦索之夜乃流星划破天空、冷暖许愿者愿望成真之夜。一个女人回想起很久以前，冷暖一群农民为了逃脱纳粹，奔走在托斯卡尼的乡间，而天空划过的不是繁星，而是闪烁的炮火。影片展现在观众面前的是一个6岁孩子亲眼所见的一系列情景和人物：1944年8月10日夜晚，一个村镇必须在服从纳粹法西斯分子的暴力和逃到美军战区之间做出选择。由于所持道德观点、文化程度以及阶级的不同，村民中发生了分歧。一部分人决定和戛尔瓦诺一起逃走，另一部分则随主教去村中唯一的教堂避难。第二天，德军突然来到村庄，大肆进行搜捕，没有逃脱的人被枪杀，教堂也被炸毁，而和戛尔瓦诺一起逃走的人们，最终被美军解救。
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。
回复 :A BBC Storyville BFI archive film about a century of gay rights, desires and history, with a soundtrack by John Grant and collaborators.
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.
