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　　在孔雀镇的铁路旁边，生活着一个有着灰暗过去的男子——约翰·斯基尔帕（希里安·墨菲 Cillian Murphy 饰），他自幼在母亲的淫威下长大，由此养成了压抑自闭的性格。在母亲去世后，约翰的人格分裂，其内心生出象征母性的女子埃玛。约翰就这样在男女两个身份间转换，过着平静而扭曲的隐蔽生活。　　某个清晨，灾祸突然降临。一个火车头脱轨闯入约翰家的院子，正在晾晒衣物的埃玛受到惊吓，并且出现在小镇人民的面前。人们对此议论纷纷，约翰则希望尽快将火车头清除院子，然而政客们却打算以此作为政治斗争的砝码。面对种种混乱的局面，约翰和埃玛的心中焦虑重重，他们的矛盾也渐次激化……

A little girl has secret superpowers but can’t use them when a highway project is threatening the nearby forest. Desperate to save it, she invents an elaborate lie about an endangered flying squirrel inhabiting the woods.

　　Joseph Fulton, a well-regarded fifty-eight-year-old director of romantic comedies, wants to become assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery. He wants to work outdoors and be close to nature. Meanwhile, he thinks it’s important to have his last will and testament drawn up. But his highly dramatic actress girlfriend thinks he must be dying and that he is just too brave to tell anyone. The rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows—and some he doesn’t—are crowded into his small apartment to say their last farewells.

　　Mikheil Chiaureli是斯大林的御用导演，《攻克柏林》长达近五个小时，分上下两部，处处着重突出最高统帅的高瞻远瞩。影片结尾，斯大林乘飞机抵达陷落的柏林，接受苏军的欢呼。其实这是“艺术虚构”。和《斯大林格勒战役》一样，这场实际主要由朱可夫将军指挥的战役，影片中丝毫没有他的影子。当时朱可夫已经因为功高震主，被罗织罪名，发配到乌拉尔军区去了，这是1946年的事。这部1949年的电影很自然地就将朱可夫的功劳“艺术虚构”到伟大领袖的头上了。　　因为这部影片，导演连续获得了两次国家奖金，包括1950年的斯大林奖金。中国观众熟悉的《难忘的1919》（1952）也是出自这位导演的手笔。值得一提的是，这两部影片都是由苏联作曲家肖斯塔科维奇谱曲的。