满清末年，东京国祚不久，东京时局动荡。1898年，光绪皇帝在康有为的建议下，决定效法西方君主立宪制，推行戊戌变法。新政如火如荼，梁启超、谭嗣同相继得到光绪的重用。然而在全新风气吹气之际，变法不可避免遭到以慈禧太后为首的顽固保守势力的抵抗。上层波谲云诡，暗潮涌动。民间反清灭洋的势力也有所抬头。在老北京一处镖局，大刀王五凭借一身精湛武艺和爱国情怀引来八方同好聚集到他的门前。却也有苟风涛这样的武林败类投靠清廷，专门干些吃里扒外的恶事。未过多久，后党势力疯狂反扑，慈禧发动宫廷政变，先下手为强废掉光绪，围捕新党。康有为、梁启超闻风逃离，而谭嗣同等维新志士拒不离开。王五与幼年朋友谭嗣同密谋救出光绪，谁知计划最终失败……
灵感
回复 :风雨交加的夜晚，一场盛大的婚礼正在某豪华星级酒店举行时，突发骇人听闻惨案，伴娘子清（李心洁）成为唯一目击证人。在警署，子清一口咬定疑凶是闭路电视上的神秘人孙玲（林嘉欣）。得知孙玲与自己的男友有着不同寻常的隐情后，因肾脏有问题一直觉得亏欠男友的子清几乎崩溃。子清受到凶徒袭击，幸得孙玲及时出手救援才捡回一命。与孙玲相处时，子清渐生宽恕和感激之心。就在两人的友谊日渐成熟之时，一直逍遥在外的真凶开始向她们逼近。
周云蓬
回复 :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.
田宇哲
回复 :1975年，阴霾笼罩着中国大地。正在黄河岸边干校劳动的何丹，突然接到调她回京的指示。何丹的归来，使大家很高兴。女儿小奚的男朋友、何丹的学生肖雨迟也赶来聚会。但当何丹从女儿口中得知他放弃大提琴，参加了文化部"初澜"写作班子时，心中十分不安。何丹原是乐团的负责人，这次被调回来，现任的领导刘亮向她下达的任务竟是要她写一篇批判《黄河大合唱》的文章，何丹断然拒绝。深夜，何丹的老战友，在周总理身边工作的王振魁来到何家，他带来了总理对何丹的问候，何丹深受鼓舞。她鼓励乐团老指挥周炎重新拿起指挥棒参加演出，热情辅导以雷大龙为首的工人业余演出队排演《黄河大合唱》。何丹的这些活动，引起"四人帮"在文化部的代理人--部长的注意和恐慌。他们一面秘密绑架了雷大龙，一面收买利欲熏心的肖雨迟。何丹母女发现肖雨迟带着写好的攻击周总理的文章要以何丹的名义发表，又得悉是他出卖了雷大龙，对他进行了严厉的痛斥。部长等人又一次决定将何丹、小溪和雷大龙的妻子谢玲下放干校劳动。何丹上书毛主席、党中央，揭发"四人帮"的罪行。在何丹即将离开北京时，王振魁带着毛主席的批示赶到了火车站。在毛主席和周总理的关怀下，纪念人民音乐家聂耳、冼星海的音乐会胜利召开。但与此同时，何丹却遭到"四人帮"的非法绑架。在被绑架的途中，何丹仿佛又一次听到了汹涌嘭湃的黄河怒涛和雄壮的《黄河大合唱》。
