81-year-old master, Jean-Marie Straub, once again invents and surprises with his latest film. Kommunisten consists of six parts, five of which have been taken from his earlier works. Straub does not aim to be self-reverential, but instead wants to make different blocks (of text, time, and languages) clash so as to highlight invisible elements of feelings and politics. It is a film about human adventure, from the past century to the one ahead. In this project, all the things that the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet have been based on for the past fifty years, find their most raw and recent form.
故事发生在车水马龙的繁华大都市阿姆斯特丹,运河之中接连浮现的尸体让市民们陷入了恐慌的情绪之中,种种蛛丝马迹显示,这是一起由同一人所犯下的连环杀人案。案件的负责人是艾里克警探(休伯·史塔普 Huub Stapel 饰),心中的正义感让他决心定要找出隐藏在幕后的凶手。
在朋友约翰(Wim Zomer 饰)的协助下,艾里克将怀疑的目标放在了当地的潜水员圈子之中,他也因此结识了美丽善良的劳拉(莫妮卡·梵·德·冯 Monique van de Ven 饰)。功夫不负有心人,随着调查的深入,嫌疑人的身影终于浮出了水面,然而,在艾里克逐渐接近真相的同时,危险也慢慢地来到了他的身后。