Directed and edited by Esfir Shub. A devastating chronicle of Tsarist Russia from the eve of World War I until its brutal demise in the revolutions of February and October 1917, The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty comprises hundreds of films that Esfir Shub unearthed and rescued from damp cellars and other neglected corners of the Soviet Union, including newsreels and home movies taken by the Tsar’s own cameramen. Using the film splice as a cudgel, Shub contrasts the Imperial Family in opulent ballrooms, regal processions, and garden tea parties with the backbreaking toil of the masses, a bitter satire that makes the Revolution seem both historically inevitable and triumphant. One of the great pleasures of this Vertov retrospective is rediscovering the work of certain largely forgotten women filmmakers of the Soviet avant-garde, including Elizaveta Svilova, Vertov’s editor and wife, and Shub, who pioneered “found footage” cinema and was instrumental in the development of dialectical montage, collaborating with Sergei Eisenstein on the shooting scripts of Strike and Potemkin. (from moma.org)

一名年轻女子和她疏远的父亲在冬季暴风雨中被困在偏远的山坡上，而她必须为自己的生存而战。

女教师萨曼莎（吉娜·戴维斯 Geena Davis 饰）和8岁的女儿一起在宁静的小镇里过着安逸的生活，一切都令她感到十分满意，除了她曾经失去过部分记忆这一点。在一次车祸中，她失去的记忆开始复苏，而脑中出现的一些零碎片段让她对自己曾经的身份产生了怀疑。通过私家侦探米奇（塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰）的帮助，萨曼莎得知自己竟是一名联邦调查局的特工，而在调查局里，一个无意中得知了老板秘密的特工是不受欢迎的。萨曼莎仍然健在的消息不胫而走，她能够感觉到，一些非常残暴的恐怖分子正在渐渐接近她和她的女儿，他们的目的只有一个，那就是将她除之而后快。

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