1941年的北非战场，春暖英德两军激战正酣，春暖英军节节败退。布兰保下士（Franchot Tone 饰）被坦克遗落，蹒跚进入埃及人法瑞德的女王酒店，而几乎同时，德意联军指挥部进驻此处。布兰保乔装酒店服务生达沃斯伺机逃脱，意外发现隆美尔元帅居然近在咫尺，而他所假扮的达沃斯更是德军间谍，布兰保决定留下以便探听德军补给计划的“五墓行动”详情，同时也对酒店的法国女招待姆丝（Anne Baxter 饰）产生情愫。不久女王酒店又迎来了一批英军俘虏，布兰保与对方取得联系并最终打探到“五墓行动”的真相，然而一直对姆丝有所企图的德军军官施威格（Peter van Eyck 饰）对他产生了怀疑，布兰保情报在手，却因姆丝要面对国家命运与个人情感的沉重考验。
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回复 :一个名叫克林的垃圾工被他的过去所折磨，他希望能在平静的生活中得到救赎，但很快他发现他必须要和他过去的种种暴力行为进行和解。
回复 :由于女演员在片场发生了危机性命的意外，亦由于一直教导的学生投靠了他人的麾下，导演金基德长久以来对于电影的执念发生了动摇，年逾五十的他发现原本高产的自己竟然再也没有了拍电影的热情与冲动。于是，失意的导演选择过起了离群索居的生活，在物质条件极为简陋的高山之上开始了自我质疑和质问的心灵旅程，他用摄像机拍下了这一段困顿生活中的自问自答，经过剪辑，于是有了这部电影。拍电影究竟是为了什么？将那些饱受争议的画面和意向放置在电影里又有着怎样的意义？即使是金基德，也给不出标准的答案。唯一能够确定的，是他已将电影融入了生命，情到深处人孤独，在《阿里郎》的歌声里，除了电影本身之外，一切都显得不再那么重要……
回复 :A great spanish cult movie!!This is one of the most astonishing films ever made. It has some scenes that it should be in the history of cinema. Like the filming by Fernando Fernan Gomez of the militias using a big roll of paper to win a positions. Or the begging of the film based on real events. The birth of the director inside the carp where the first cinematographer was showing "the train arriving to the station". Being shoot in really simple way it's amazing the proper use of the audiovisual language. The late Guillermo Cabrera Infante showed this film in a Canadian film festival in Spanish without subtitles when the projection finish the audience didn't move and they ask for seen the film again. The effect of this film in the audience is unbelievable. None a single person that has seen this rare Spanish movie could forget it. Except the main actor Fernando Fernan Gomez who never remember work on it.
