从哈布斯堡王朝到神圣罗马帝国，维也纳是中欧的统治中心。历史学家Simon Sebag Montefiore讲述欧洲名城维也纳的兴衰。

2008年5月，君临俄国八年的普京总统卸任了。可是在卸任后，他转任总理，仍继续留在政权之内。“继任总统”梅德韦杰夫的选举口号是：一切照旧。明确了今后的实际掌权者仍将是普京。“普京王朝”坚如磐石的秘诀在于对媒体的彻底支配。就任后，将三大电视台全部国有化，并大力塑造普京强人领袖的形象，这打动了冷战后自信扫地的俄国国民的心，如今，他们更将其与俄罗斯传统的沙皇形象叠印在一起，拥护普京的狂热正愈演愈烈。而另一方面，独立媒体的新闻工作者们却在大声疾呼，这次的权力继承将导致俄罗斯民主的灭亡。但在媒体煽动下，沉湎于大国复兴美梦中的国民，成为抹杀他们呐喊声的铜墙铁壁。媒体受国家权力操控的这个国家正在发生着什么。从最前线揭示步入普京院政时代的俄国真面目。

百无聊赖的法国滨海小镇，惊传离奇车祸断头案，悬案背后暗藏两大外星势力——邪恶0帝国与善良1帝国的角力。0帝国武士附身普通渔夫，与人类生下混种小王子，恶魔血脉开枝散叶，宇宙和平岌岌可危；1帝国公主为阻止0帝国耍阴招侵略地球，奉女王之命无差别血刃敌军臣民。在这个无人在意的世界角落，关乎人类未来的宇宙大战一触即发。

克里斯（利亚姆·海姆斯沃斯 Liam Hemsworth 饰）一直希望能够成为一名警察，却在连连遭遇失败后来到了帝国装甲卡车公司，成为了那里的保镖。没过多久，克里斯便发现，公司内的安保布置看似无坚不摧实际上漏洞百出，他将这个秘密告诉了好友艾迪（迈克尔·安格拉诺 Michael Angarano 饰），谁知道自己的无心之谈竟然惹出了之后的一连串大麻烦。 　　克里斯决定和艾迪联手，两人策划了一宗现金抢劫案，打算在得手之后远走高飞。谁知道这个看似一帆风顺的计划，却因为精明的警探詹姆斯（道恩·强森 Dwayne Johnson 饰）的介入而徒增了风险。与此同时，掌控该片区的黑帮老大亦对两人的计划产生了兴趣。

'Empire' was the trailer for the Viennale 2010 and screened in over one hundred cinemas in Austria and during the festival in Vienna.

'Empire' was the trailer for the Viennale 2010 and screened in over one hundred cinemas in Austria and during the festival in Vienna.

Short film Empire is based on a radio drama Sorry, Wrong Number by the American writer Lucille Fletcher. Actually, Sokurov draws on a single theme forming the background for the story of the thriller — the woman's illness… The heroine is bed–ridden and her only means of communication with the outside world is her telephone — until a killer interrupts the conversation… 　　Sokurov removes all the dialogues, leaving us alone with the heroine — “a living skeleton” among the refined, with a touch of Modern–style, furnishings — who is listening to a radio broadcasting of Traviata, with its pleas for mercy and love. An elegant coffin–home is the spatial centre and symbolization of the entire film. And inside the coffin we certainly see the actress — the famous Russian ballerina Alla Osipenko who plays not only the heroine but also her own self. 　　This metaphoric cinema–image bears an allusion to the great “handicapped” Sarah Bernhardt who was reported to sleep in a coffin, as well as to the entire complex of aesthetised Decadence, converting an apology of Death into a lifestyle. Here is the key to the code of the title. Empire is a style that attempted to reanimate the dead ancient harmony. The heroine of Sokurov's film communicates with her phone as the only partner, and sort of interferes with the beyond, attracting this air — intangible yet saturated with danger. It is from the radio air that she accumulates both pleasure and tranquillity — the aria of dying yet beloved Violetta, while the killer's silhouette materializes from the phone air. A chamber pot, overturned and spilt by the killer in haste, remains the only evidence of human activities in this boudoir of Death. Sokurov's metaphor, clad in naturalistic details, produces the effect of ironic disclosure: “a wet spot” is left after a symbol. 　　The film was shot as a study work of a VGIK student S.Sidorov. At that time Sokurov did not have a chance to launch a project of his own, therefore he used this possibility to work. Visual conception of this film anticipates a considerable number of Sokurov's future experiments: light that models the space, levelling of colours, correlation of contrasting textures.

维克多（约翰·雷吉扎莫 John Leguizamo 饰）生活在车水马龙的大都市纽约，在这里，他经营着自己的毒品生意。维克多靠着贩卖一种名为“帝国”的毒品发家致富，过着奢靡无度的生活，与此同时，他还邂逅了名为卡门（丹妮丝·理查兹 Denise Richards 饰）的美丽女子，两人走到了一起。 　　卡门怀孕了，这让维克多开始意识到，自己不能够再靠着作奸犯科来赚钱了，他必须找到一个能够给他提供稳定收入但是又合理合法的行当。抱着这样的念头，维克多结识了银行家杰克（彼得·萨斯加德 Peter Sarsgaard 饰），在杰克的带领这下，维克多开始野心勃勃的向纽约上流社会进发。

小奏露子（加隈亚衣 配音）是一位个性十分普通的女子初中生，个性有些害羞和软弱的她来到了新的城市入读了新的学校，正在为自己能否交到朋友而苦恼着。哥哥小凑步（石谷春贵 配音）发现了妹妹的困扰，于是将名为“WIXOSS”的卡牌给了妹妹，希望妹妹能够通过游戏来收获友谊。 　　让露子没有想到的是，当她拿出了主牌“LRIG卡片”时，卡片上的立绘少女小玉（久野美咲 配音）竟然来到了现实之中，不仅如此，露子的同班同学红林游月（川澄绫子 配音）还向露子提出了对战的请求。原来，在LRIG卡片的拥有着之间，存在着旷日持久的战争，最终胜利的人，就能够成为传说中的梦限少女。