这是一部有关美国文豪、《麦田守望者》作者塞林格的纪录片。这部纪录片通过采访塞林格的同事和朋友等圈子成员，试图去展现塞林格的童年、工作方法、婚姻等私人世界的秘密。

整部影片围绕塞林格创作长篇小说《麦田里的守望者》展开，这部小说影响了几代美国人，让塞林格的名字永远地留在了世界文坛上。不过塞林格本人十分低调神秘，他一生中只创作了这一部长篇小说，成名后在新罕布什尔州乡间的河边小山附近买下了90多英亩的土地，在山顶上建了一座小屋，过起了隐居的生活。2010年1月27日在新罕布什尔州的家中去世，终年91岁。

American Masters launches its 28th season with the series' 200th episode: the exclusive director's cut of Shane Salerno's documentary, Salinger, with 15 minutes of new material not seen in theaters. Featuring never-before-seen photographs, personal stories and moments from J.D. Salinger's (Jan. 1, 1919 - Jan. 27, 2010) life and harrowing service in World War II, Salerno's new director's cut expands his intimate portrait of the enigmatic author of The Catcher in the Rye. American Masters was the first to close a deal with Salerno for Salinger, securing the exclusive domestic television rights to the documentary in January 2013. An official selection of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival, the film made front page news all over the world with its revelations. Associated Press called the research yielded during Salerno's 10-year investigation "unprecedented" and "thoroughly documented." Salerno's 10-year journey culminates in the first work to get beyond the author's impenetrable wall of privacy and seclusion. While there have been over 100 academic books examining Salinger's work in exhaustive detail, the story that no one had uncovered was that of Salinger's remarkable life. Salerno overcame considerable obstacles to do this and present the material as a documentary film. Salinger never sat for a formal interview during his life, and there were no video or audio recordings of him and very few photographs. Additionally, legal restrictions specifically prevented Salerno from quoting virtually any of Salinger's work on camera or from having anyone read or perform any of Salinger's work. Regardless, American Masters: Salinger shows in vivid detail the connections between the author's life and work, and the people and events that inspired his most celebrated fiction.

故事发生在90年代的纽约，结束研究生学业后，梦想成为作家的乔安娜（玛格丽特·奎利饰）被玛格丽特（西格妮·韦弗饰）雇佣为助手，后者是J·D·塞林格（J.D.Salinger）的文学经纪人，以保守和老派著称。乔安娜白天在一间豪华的木镶板办公室里工作，晚上和她信仰社 会主义的男友在布鲁克林一间破旧的公寓里过夜。她的主要工作内容是处理塞林格大量书迷的邮件。当细细阅读来自世界各地令人心碎的信件时，她不愿意用格式化和没有人情味的回复去搪塞书迷，并冲动地开始带着自己的感情回复邮件。这些邮件既幽默又感人，乔安娜在借用伟大作家的声音说话时，同时探索着属于自己的声音。

生活中形形色色的人来到这片海滩度假，在这片海滩上没有了阶级身份的不同，所有人都是赤裸的，他们在这片海滩相遇相互熟悉，有的成为了朋友，有的成为了恋人，但即便如此这片海滩也不能跳出俗世的纷扰，俗世的烦恼也随着形形色色的人来到了这片海滩，这片海滩是否可以化解这些人带来的俗世纷扰呢......

在繁华的凯旋门街区，对街彻夜通明的灯火让一位陌生女人辗转难眠。而在堆满恶心垃圾的狭窄公寓里，有个男人整日萎靡不振，仿佛从未见过白天。他日夜颠倒，夜晚清醒，白天昏睡，生活仅局限于黑夜。 某个黎明，男人因熬夜过度睡了过去，在断断续续的梦境里，他度过了仿佛现实中漫长一天的出行。凯旋门散射出的十二条大街，就像他钟表上的十二个时刻。在现实世界的时间流转、梦境里的时间回溯中，男人重温了人生中的几段过往，从让他自甘堕落的噩梦，到一去不返的美好旧梦，从离婚到相爱再到相遇，从失业到就业再到实习毕业，从来不及到尚未发生。 男人在床上虚度的十二小时，正是他白日梦中在户外度过的六年过往。夜幕降临，不愿醒来的他选择继续沉浸梦境——他打算，在次日黎明之后醒来，重新直面久违的白天。 巴黎的黎明，正顺着凯旋门某个钟点方向按顺时针前行；两个女人的身影，在这位熬夜患者的白日梦里交替浮现。棕发女人好似杰姬（Jackie），金发女人貌似梦露（Monroe）。

Зима 1945 года. Война близится к концу. В глухой северной деревушке бригада пленных немцев строит вышку для радиомаяка. Жители деревни — женщины и старики, чьи мужья и сыновья воюют или погибли на фронте — встречают пленных с понятной неприязнью. История взаимоотношений совершенно разных, враждебных друг другу людей, которым необходимо найти общий язык, — это притча о том, как человек может оставаться человеком, несмотря на роковые повороты мировой истории.

1945年二战快结束的时候，一队被俘虏的德国士兵被带到遥远的俄罗斯村庄。那里只剩下了寡妇，孩子和伤残人，这是关于战争年代的美好愿望，充满了爱和宽恕……

Jorinde and Joringel are lovers and would like to get married. But on a walk in the forest, they find themselves near a castle belonging to an wicked witch. She is jealous of their love and wants to destroy it. She decides to set Joringel free after taking away Jorinde, content with that the lovers will never see each other again.

A fictional, non-chronological account of the life of the scientist, adventurer and industrialist Lukas Berlinger. The key dates and central events include Berlinger's birth in 1914, his friendship with Johannes Roeder, who was the same age, his marriage to Marlit in the early 1930s and Roeder's joining the NSDAP in 1936. As a chemist and "scientist important to the war effort", Berlinger was not required to go to the front during the Second World War, but it was slowly discovered that he was helping persecuted people to escape to Switzerland. Pressure from the Gestapo cost Marlit her life, and Berlinger fled to South America. It was not until 1968 that he returned to the western part of Germany. He meets Roeder again, who is now a senator and has become rich as a "building tycoon", and meets Maria, a teacher almost 30 years his junior, who looks strikingly similar to Marlit.