1948年1月，桐柏军区发起解放邓县的战役，国民党守军丁叔恒纠集上万兵力死守城池。面对敌众我寡的不利局面，我军某部副连长郭文庚设计进城，历经艰险成功取得了敌军城防图，为解放邓县打开胜利的突破口。

1948年1月，桐柏军区发起解放邓县的战役，国民党守军丁叔恒纠集上万兵力死守城池。面对敌众我寡的不利局面，我军某部副连长郭文庚设计进城，历经艰险成功取得了敌军城防图，为解放邓县打开胜利的突破口。

这是一部形式独特的二战纪录片，整部影片通过旁白的叙述构建了这样一个故事：1941年，一名意大利士兵前往苏联前线，作为法西斯同盟与纳粹的军队汇合。胜利似乎近在眼前，车队继续前进，人们唱着歌，满怀希望。这位年轻的士兵却回忆起了他的俄裔母亲和他讲过的一则伤感的童话。他不像他的年轻伙伴们，他在非洲已经参加过战争，他害怕上战场。火车穿过欧洲，到达广袤无垠的乌克兰平原。随着冬天的到来，人们的热情在第一声炮弹、寒冷和大雪的冲击下逐渐消退。士兵们的愿望不再是胜利，而是一个温暖的床、食物和回家。狂风肆虐的大草原似乎飘荡着鬼魂。

这是一部形式独特的二战纪录片，整部影片通过旁白的叙述构建了这样一个故事：1941年，一名意大利士兵前往苏联前线，作为法西斯同盟与纳粹的军队汇合。胜利似乎近在眼前，车队继续前进，人们唱着歌，满怀希望。这位年轻的士兵却回忆起了他的俄裔母亲和他讲过的一则伤感的童话。他不像他的年轻伙伴们，他在非洲已经参加过战争，他害怕上战场。火车穿过欧洲，到达广袤无垠的乌克兰平原。随着冬天的到来，人们的热情在第一声炮弹、寒冷和大雪的冲击下逐渐消退。士兵们的愿望不再是胜利，而是一个温暖的床、食物和回家。狂风肆虐的大草原似乎飘荡着鬼魂。

Martin Luther is born into a world dominated by the Catholic Church. For the keenly spiritual Luther, the Church's promise of salvation is irresistible. Caught in a thunderstorm and terrified by the possibility of imminent death, he vows to become a monk. But after entering the monastery, Luther becomes increasingly doubtful that the Church can actually offer him salvation. His views crystallize further when he travels to Rome and finds the capital of Catholicism swamped in corruption. Wracked by despair, Luther finds release in the pages of the Bible, discovering that it is not the Church, but his own individual faith that will guarantee his salvation. With this revelation, he turns on the Church. He attacks its practice of selling Indulgences in his famous 95 Theses, putting himself on an irreversible path to conflict with the most powerful institution of the day. The Catholic Church uses all of its might to try to silence Luther, including accusations of heresy and excommunication. Protected by his local ruler, Frederick the Wise, Luther continues to write radical critiques of the Church. In the process, he develops a new system of faith that places the freedom of the individual believer above the rituals of the Church. Aided by the newly invented printing press, his ideas spread rapidly. He is called before the German imperial parliament in the city of Worms and told he must recant. Risking torture and execution, Luther refuses, proclaiming his inalienable right to believe what he wishes. His stand becomes a legend that inspires revolution across Europe, overturning the thousand-year old hegemony of the Church. But as the reformation expands into a movement for social freedom, Luther finds himself overwhelmed by the pace of change, and is left vainly protesting that his followers should be concerning themselves with God. 　　- Written by Anonymous

Martin Luther is born into a world dominated by the Catholic Church. For the keenly spiritual Luther, the Church's promise of salvation is irresistible. Caught in a thunderstorm and terrified by the possibility of imminent death, he vows to become a monk. But after entering the monastery, Luther becomes increasingly doubtful that the Church can actually offer him salvation. His views crystallize further when he travels to Rome and finds the capital of Catholicism swamped in corruption. Wracked by despair, Luther finds release in the pages of the Bible, discovering that it is not the Church, but his own individual faith that will guarantee his salvation. With this revelation, he turns on the Church. He attacks its practice of selling Indulgences in his famous 95 Theses, putting himself on an irreversible path to conflict with the most powerful institution of the day. The Catholic Church uses all of its might to try to silence Luther, including accusations of heresy and excommunication. Protected by his local ruler, Frederick the Wise, Luther continues to write radical critiques of the Church. In the process, he develops a new system of faith that places the freedom of the individual believer above the rituals of the Church. Aided by the newly invented printing press, his ideas spread rapidly. He is called before the German imperial parliament in the city of Worms and told he must recant. Risking torture and execution, Luther refuses, proclaiming his inalienable right to believe what he wishes. His stand becomes a legend that inspires revolution across Europe, overturning the thousand-year old hegemony of the Church. But as the reformation expands into a movement for social freedom, Luther finds himself overwhelmed by the pace of change, and is left vainly protesting that his followers should be concerning themselves with God. 　　- Written by Anonymous

英国知名历史学家迈克尔·伍德，决心走进中国，倾听亲历者的故事，探寻中国改革开放四十年的历史脉络。这也将是迈克尔·伍德继创作经典纪录片《中华的故事》之后，又一部解读中国的佳作。 　　迈克尔·伍德记录中国的方式是他自己的。他在接受《环球时报》采访时说，西方国家拍摄有关中国的纪录片时，在叙事内容方面总少不了“三个故事”，表现出乏善可陈的老三样：一是高速发展的中国经济，二是中国的一党专政，三是中国的人权和言论自由如何如何。我的做法是，客观拍摄但以一种容易让西方受众接受的方式。

英国知名历史学家迈克尔·伍德，决心走进中国，倾听亲历者的故事，探寻中国改革开放四十年的历史脉络。这也将是迈克尔·伍德继创作经典纪录片《中华的故事》之后，又一部解读中国的佳作。 　　迈克尔·伍德记录中国的方式是他自己的。他在接受《环球时报》采访时说，西方国家拍摄有关中国的纪录片时，在叙事内容方面总少不了“三个故事”，表现出乏善可陈的老三样：一是高速发展的中国经济，二是中国的一党专政，三是中国的人权和言论自由如何如何。我的做法是，客观拍摄但以一种容易让西方受众接受的方式。

The Bolshevik revolution, the cold war, and the collapse of the Soviet Union defined the history of the twentieth century. With such a past, what does it mean to be Russian today? Robin Hessman's lovingly crafted documentary, My Perestroika, adopts the idea of the “everyman story,” suggesting that the unheralded lives of the last generation of Soviets to grow up behind the iron curtain hold the key to understanding the contradictions of modern Russia from the inside out. 　　Crafted during five years of researching and shooting, and based on almost a decade of living in Russia in the 1990s, Hessman's film poetically interweaves an extraordinary trove of home movies, Soviet propaganda films, and intimate access to five schoolmates whose linked, but very different, histories offer a moving portrait of newly middle-class Russians living lives they could never have imagined when they were growing up.

The Bolshevik revolution, the cold war, and the collapse of the Soviet Union defined the history of the twentieth century. With such a past, what does it mean to be Russian today? Robin Hessman's lovingly crafted documentary, My Perestroika, adopts the idea of the “everyman story,” suggesting that the unheralded lives of the last generation of Soviets to grow up behind the iron curtain hold the key to understanding the contradictions of modern Russia from the inside out. 　　Crafted during five years of researching and shooting, and based on almost a decade of living in Russia in the 1990s, Hessman's film poetically interweaves an extraordinary trove of home movies, Soviet propaganda films, and intimate access to five schoolmates whose linked, but very different, histories offer a moving portrait of newly middle-class Russians living lives they could never have imagined when they were growing up.