简介：Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.

简介：由苏格兰导演阿曼多·兰努奇（Armando Iannucci）执导的英语电影《斯大林之死》（The Death Of Stalin）近日开机拍摄，该片根据Fabien-Nury同名漫画改编，讲述了斯大林去世后苏共高层激烈的权力争斗。　　饰演斯大林的是美国演员阿德里安?麦克洛格林（Adrian Mcloughlin），金球奖得主杰弗瑞·塔伯（Jeffrey Tambor）将饰演苏联领导人马林科夫，史蒂夫·布奇密（Steve Buscemi）将饰演赫鲁晓夫，前“邦女郎”奥尔加·柯瑞兰寇（Olga Kurylenko）将饰演苏联钢琴家玛丽亚·尤金娜（斯大林是在她钢琴唱片的伴奏下死去的），西蒙·拉塞尔·比尔（Simon Russell Beale）将饰演苏联二号人物贝利亚，鲁伯特·弗兰德（Rupert Friend）将饰演斯大林次子瓦西里。　　除此以外，加盟本片的还有杰森·爱萨克（Jason Isaacs）、托比·科贝尔（Toby Kebbell）等。　　斯大林是苏联历史上在位时间最长的最高领导人（1924——1953），在他的铁腕统治之下，苏联成为与美国相抗衡的超级大国。关于他的死一直存在各种阴谋论，官方给出的结论是中风导致的自然死亡，但也有人坚信他是被投毒害死的，而凶手就是克格勃（苏联情报机构）头子贝利亚。　　斯大林死后，苏联一度陷入群龙无首的状态，高层的政治斗争异常激烈。最终赫鲁晓夫等人扳倒了当时苏联实际上的二号人物——贝利亚。斯大林去世几个月后，贝利亚被作为西方间谍处以死刑。