Chuck and his pal Fearless flee a South African carnival when their sideshow causes a fire. After several similar escapades, they've finally saved enough to return to the USA, when Chuck spends it all on a "lost" diamond mine. But that's only the beginning; before long, a pair of attractive con-women have tricked our heroes into financing a comic safari, featuring numerous burlesque jungle adventures...

1964年中央新闻纪录电影制片厂摄制。桑给巴尔原是英国殖民地。1963年6月桑给巴尔第三次大选后取得了“内部自治”。同年12月10日桑给巴尔宣布独立，成为君主立宪制国家，保留苏丹王，由当时的执政党民族党和桑奔人民党组成政府。非洲设拉子党被排除在政府之外，成为主要反对党。1964年9月12日，非洲设拉子党与群众党联合发动武装起义，推翻了苏丹王朝及民族党和桑奔人民党组成的联合政府，成立了桑给巴尔人民共和国。

Separated from his family and caught in a cycle of gambling and debt, Jim has less than a day to repay a violent loan shark. His day is turned upside down when he must look after his young. Jim's relationship with his son is tested as his plans to pay back the loan fail. When his last desperate effort to repay the debt puts his son's life at risk, he must make a choice between his past and a second chance at life.

How did Kurt become who he was? Why was he never elected class monitor? When did Arne come into the picture? And what happened when this dynamic duo did their military service? And Gudrun, who does she really like best? You'll find the answers in the film about Kurtan. Kurtan seems to have his fingers in everything... from the shipyard crisis to the switch to right-hand traffic... and somehow everything seems to go wrong...

离婚的吉姆因欠债被威胁，他需要在一天内凑到钱还上。而刚好这一天赶上他负责照顾跟前妻的孩子，于是吉姆把儿子带在车上，父子二人开始了凑钱路上上的奔波。吉姆是快递公司的送货员，他在送货间隙，带着孩子到酒吧赌钱，想靠横财翻身。可惜运气不佳，输了个精光。吉姆打算把车卖掉还债，但到最后关头毁约了，原来他的车是他已经去世的父亲留下的唯一纪念品。情急之下，吉姆去找他的前女友借钱，却被要求非法运货才能获得酬劳，吉姆无奈答应了下来。但在运货途中幡然悔悟，决定面对自己责任，承担后果。他意识到身边的亲人才是最重要的，他放下心结把车抵押了出去，付清了债务，和儿子骑着自行车回到了家里。

Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’ The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.

沃尔克·施隆多夫将贝尔托·布莱希特的表现主义晚期作品移植到了1969年的现代背景中。诗人兼无政府主义者巴尔住在阁楼里，向出租车司机朗诵他的诗歌。巴尔起初受到资产阶级社会的追捧，后来遭到排斥，他在森林中徘徊，沿着高速公路游荡，对烈酒、香烟、女人和男人都有着强烈的欲望：“你得放出那头野兽，让它沐浴在阳光下……”

Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business.

An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.