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在英国小镇韦瑟比，琼组织了一次聚会，一位奇特的不请自来的青年被奉为上宾。第二天，这位不速之客又来了，在琼的面前开枪自杀而亡。案件对小镇震动很大。不久，真相大白于天下。原来那晚，这位失恋的青年在与琼发生关系后，又遭到琼的拒绝，痛苦之极走上不归路。 本片是导演的低成本处女作，反映了他对人性的看法：平静下面潜藏着邪恶和欺诈，孤独时只能以扭曲的方式解脱自己。人们循规蹈矩地生活．直至陌生人暴力自杀，才给他们带来震动，这暗示了英国社会的等级及教育制度是人们反复无常的心理根源。影片表现了人的行为，以及人们产生这种行为的社会根源。本片具有深刻的思想性。反传统的表现手法使其有很强的艺术观赏性。本片获得1985年柏林电影节最佳故事片金熊奖。。Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.。