故事片《勐垅沙》是由八一电影制片厂在1960年摄制的。本片根据话剧《遥远的勐垅沙》改编，午夜它讲述的是1950年春，午夜解放军某部指导员江洪奉命率工作组到云南傣族地区勐垅沙开展工作。当地头人布亢受潜伏的女特务刀爱玲的挑唆，禁止傣族老乡接近工作组，致使工作组的工作难以展开。江洪要战士们克服畏难情绪，深入群众，为群众做好事，以取得他们的信任。同时，江洪又带头到苦大仇深的梅恩家访问。青年猎人勒亨受坏人挑拨，误以江洪为敌，企图杀害他，幸被梅恩的爷爷帕曼及时劝阻。刀爱玲又派人放火烧了勒亨的家，企图嫁祸于江洪，并煽动群众赶走工作组。江洪识破了敌人的阴谋，一方面带领战士帮助勒亨盖新房，一方面迫使头人释放被关押的梅恩的丈夫帅恩，从而团结、争取了广大贫苦的傣民。刀爱玲并不死心，她乘傣乡粮食青黄不接时，派人破坏了勐垅河大桥，切断了政府运粮的通道；还唆使布亢抬高粮价，并乘机挑起汉傣民族之间的矛盾。当阴谋败露后，她又企图劫持布亢逃往国外。江洪率战士和民兵逮捕了刀爱玲，救出了布亢。从此，傣乡人民开始走上新的生活道路。
回复 :"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
回复 :抗日战争较为艰苦的1942年，胶东抗日根据地边缘村庄赵家庄等经常遭受日军的突袭，为了减少损失，区武委会雷主任（张长瑞）和赵家庄民兵队长赵虎（白大钧）集合群众的智慧，想出应对日军的策略：他们联合附近几个村庄组成民兵联防壮大武装力量的同时，用土制地雷组成各式各样的地雷阵，将日军沉重打击。日军为对付地雷阵，搬来工兵攻入赵家庄大肆烧杀抢掠，民兵们及时总结经验、吸取教训，不断改进制雷技术和布雷方法，使得日军防不胜防。进入麦收季节，日军本想趁民兵抢收麦子时一举拿下赵家庄，不想民兵早已设下了布局更为精妙的地雷阵。
回复 :太平洋战争初期，美军将兵力投入欧洲战场，无力挽回菲律宾战事，导致一万名美军、六万名菲军在巴丹半岛被俘。日军一直残酷对待这些战俘，军部更于1944年一月决定屠杀俘虏，这部电影，讲述的就是发生在44年一月四天中的故事。游骑兵上尉普林斯分属幕西中校的队伍，他们接受了在麦克阿瑟将军北上过程中营救某战俘营里500名美军的任务，由于日军对待战俘毫不留情，此次行动必须高度隐秘。同一时间，战俘营中的少校吉布森（约瑟夫•费因斯 Joseph Fiennes 饰）正艰难的为生存和获取外界信息而努力，虽然当地有护士玛格丽特等人想法设法为战俘提供帮助，但缺药的状况一直存在。为执行屠杀命令，宪兵军官长井接管了战俘营，而战俘营外，游骑兵战士们经过秘密行军终于抵达了目的地，营救成败，很快就要揭晓……