本片改编自瑞士小说家、剧作家马克斯•弗里施 Max Frisch的同名畅销小说《施蒂勒》（1954），原著以探索自我本质为主题。 　　詹姆斯•拉金•怀特（Albrecht Schuch 饰）在乘坐火车穿越瑞士时，被误认为是七年前失踪的雕塑家施蒂勒，后者因卷入一桩可疑的政治事件而遭到通缉。怀特在弗里施的小说开头就宣称：“我不是施蒂勒！“ ——从那时起，他一再宣称自己不是施蒂勒。为了给他定罪，检察官（Max Simonischek 饰）要求施蒂勒的妻子尤莉卡（Paula Beer 饰）指认自己的丈夫，但她却无法最终指认。回忆越来越多地揭示了这对夫妻的关系——原来检察官与失踪男子有着惊人的联系。

本片改编自瑞士小说家、剧作家马克斯•弗里施 Max Frisch的同名畅销小说《施蒂勒》（1954），原著以探索自我本质为主题。 　　詹姆斯•拉金•怀特（Albrecht Schuch 饰）在乘坐火车穿越瑞士时，被误认为是七年前失踪的雕塑家施蒂勒，后者因卷入一桩可疑的政治事件而遭到通缉。怀特在弗里施的小说开头就宣称：“我不是施蒂勒！“ ——从那时起，他一再宣称自己不是施蒂勒。为了给他定罪，检察官（Max Simonischek 饰）要求施蒂勒的妻子尤莉卡（Paula Beer 饰）指认自己的丈夫，但她却无法最终指认。回忆越来越多地揭示了这对夫妻的关系——原来检察官与失踪男子有着惊人的联系。

Ben Stiller tells the story of his parents, comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, exploring their impact on both popular culture and at home, where the lines between creativity, family, life and art often blurred. In the process, Stiller turns the camera on himself and his family to examine Jerry and Anne’s enormous influence on their lives, and the generational lessons that we can all learn from those we love.

a REALLY REALLY REALLY strange film! 　　De komst of Joachim Stiller is based upon the novel of Hubert Lampo. I know the writer personally and it's hard to believe that such a charming person writes such a strange book. 　　Anyway, I find this movie one of the best Belgian movies ever made. I do have the television version on video (+- 180 mins) and that version is okay. Never watch the cinema version because that only has a running time of aprox. 120 mins. By cutting away 60 (sixty !!!) mins of scenes (never understood why they did this) the story becomes very complex and you will not understand the plot of the movie. So always stay with the FULL version not the shorter Cinema/TV movie version !!!! 　　This movie is a magic realism movie. A real fine mystery about a journalist named Freek who gets a letter one day. Now everybody gets letters everyday so not worth making a movie of this subject you think now. Strange thing is that the letter was posted more then 20 years before Freek was born. How could someone know where Freek should live more then 20 years later as a grown up ? Then more strange things happen,and one name is always returning : 'Joachim Stiller' Who is he ? What's his mission ? Is he an enemy or a friend ? Freek wants to know who that Joachim Stiller is and starts searching. 　　I will not tell you what happens and how the movie ends, because you just have to see it. It's an old movie, and no spectacular special FX, but it's a real scary movie in his own way. I saw this movie for the first time at age 9, and I can tell you that I had nightmares of it. Something I never had or have when watching movies.(even not the bloody and scary horror movies.) 　　You'll have to search in private collections for this movie because I heard (it's a rumour not confirmed) that the last master copy of this movie is lost (stolen/destroyed ???) and not anymore in the archives of the public television Station (VRT, (that time known as BRT) ) wich was co producer and so the chance they'll ever show this great movie on television again is as good as not.

Ben Stiller tells the story of his parents, comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, exploring their impact on both popular culture and at home, where the lines between creativity, family, life and art often blurred. In the process, Stiller turns the camera on himself and his family to examine Jerry and Anne’s enormous influence on their lives, and the generational lessons that we can all learn from those we love.

故事发生在1989年，神情忧郁的16岁女孩莱拉（埃莉诺·汤姆林森 Eleanor Tomlinson 饰）因伤害同学而被学校出名，刚好她利用这个时间随同研究艺术史的希尔博士（斯蒂芬·瑞 Stephen Rea 饰）来到处于铁幕统治的匈牙利，对一座19世纪城堡中的画作进行研究。在一个清冷的早晨，原打算在树林里割腕自杀的莱拉意外目睹一场蓄意杀人的车祸，幸存者是名叫卡米拉（朱莉娅·皮楚查 Julia Pietrucha 饰）的女孩。卡米拉拒绝报警，随同莱拉来到城堡躲藏。在仿佛与世隔绝的所在，两个女孩手牵着手，成为了好朋友。 　　谁知卡米拉很快消失无踪，而沉睡在城堡中的神秘力量似乎也由此苏醒，所有的人陷入疯狂之中……