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Directed and edited by Esfir Shub. A devastating chronicle of Tsarist Russia from the eve of World War I until its brutal demise in the revolutions of February and October 1917, The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty comprises hundreds of films that Esfir Shub unearthed and rescued from damp cellars and other neglected corners of the Soviet Union, including newsreels and home movies taken by the Tsar’s own cameramen. Using the film splice as a cudgel, Shub contrasts the Imperial Family in opulent ballrooms, regal processions, and garden tea parties with the backbreaking toil of the masses, a bitter satire that makes the Revolution seem both historically inevitable and triumphant. One of the great pleasures of this Vertov retrospective is rediscovering the work of certain largely forgotten women filmmakers of the Soviet avant-garde, including Elizaveta Svilova, Vertov’s editor and wife, and Shub, who pioneered “found footage” cinema and was instrumental in the development of dialectical montage, collaborating with Sergei Eisenstein on the shooting scripts of Strike and Potemkin. (from moma.org)

盛夏来临，蚊蝇肆虐。在某处，离地面不远处的空中，12只蚊子整齐地排出阵型，等待猎物的出现。不久，一名高个儿男子出现。猝不及防之时，蚊子军团呼啸而下，对男子进行围攻，他从头到脚浑身上下全部中招。男人想了想，觉得一人挨咬实在太亏，他算了算蚊子的数量，瞬间想出一个好办法。男人又拉来一个敦实的男子，这时蚊子军团再次发起进攻，不同的是每人只遭到6只蚊子的攻击。高个男人一阵窃喜，敦实男人则想法减轻损失，于是又找来一个牺牲品。如是在三，直到第五个男人出现，绝对平均的均衡被彻底打破了……本片荣获第二届上海电影节科教类奖。

1987年戛纳电影节评审团最佳短片奖。

该片讲述恐怖主义者（玄彬 饰）与女谈判专家（孙艺珍 饰）之间反复对决的恐怖犯罪题材故事，恐怖分子时时刻刻用各种难以预料的方法进行施压，双方将进行一场激烈的脑力斗争。