袁崇焕将军是礼义廉耻的化身，炎黄子孙的楷模。
　　袁崇焕于山河破碎民族危亡之际，抛妻弃子投笔从戎，是舍生忘死忠诚仗义的热血丈夫。为黎民百姓大好河山免遭蹂躏，他义无返顾，精忠报国，宁可粉身碎骨也无怨无悔……
　　袁崇焕是智勇双全的军事统帅。他以非凡的胆略和气魄运筹帷幄，决胜千里，创造了以弱胜强，以少胜多的辉煌战绩。
　　这一介书生身上凝聚着中化民族的勇敢智慧和一往无前的大无畏英雄气概……
　　袁崇焕是胸怀坦荡磊落光明、义薄云天万古流芳的民族英雄。
　　他横遭诬陷蒙冤下狱，仍以国家民族利益为先，忍辱负重秉笔修书，召唤与自己知心换命的忠勇将士保卫京师，浴血奋战为国捐躯……
　　正是袁崇焕以碧血丹心捍卫的封建专制君主一手制造了将忠臣良将凌迟于市，豪杰精英粉身碎骨的悲剧……

　　日美宣战后，林晨辉停止了在日本的留学，返回自己的家乡——台湾。林同仁为欢迎儿子归来，特意请来亲朋好友一起庆贺。晨辉和未婚妻秀兰翩翩起舞，唱起台湾民歌“望春风”。突然，保甲长带着日本军官闯进来，不容解释就打。外甥卫国急忙点头哈腰，日本军官才离去。鞭炮齐响，晨辉和秀兰正式定婚了。人们为他俩祝福，只有卫国的笑脸上潜藏着阴影，原来卫国也爱慕秀兰，幻想秀兰做他的妻子。卫国找到地痞侯君正，讨来一着“高棋”。他们买通日本人抓晨辉去当兵，又假装同情让二人逃走。晨辉、秀兰乘船刚走不远，就被日本巡逻艇拦住，晨辉被抓走。卫国强迫秀兰嫁给他，被断然拒绝。侯君正霸占了林家财产，林同仁一气而死，管家阿勇伯也双目失明。秀兰被迫去“翠花楼”做女招待，在酒楼受尽凌辱，她愤怒之极扎死卫国。酒女阿花为掩护秀兰逃跑，死于侯君正枪下。晨辉被抓兵后派到菲律宾对美作战。在一次战斗中，他身负重伤，幸亏土著老人和他女儿若男相救，才大难不死。日本兵要拉若男去军营，晨辉和土著父女与日军展开激战，若男不幸死于日军乱枪之中。夜晚，晨辉和土著老人炸掉日军油库，老人为掩护他撤离，与日军同归于尽。晨辉终于回到家乡，他决心报仇雪恨。侯君正在妈祖庙前看乡剧。突然舞台上出现的晨辉，他拔枪射出仇恨的子弹，台下人群大乱，侯君正在打手们的掩护下向外撤。晨辉双枪齐发，打手一个个倒下去。侯君正跑进妈祖庙里，晨辉追进庙内，终于结果了作恶多端的侯君正，为亲人报了仇。夕阳落下，传来“望春风”歌曲的口琴声。秀兰、李母二人扶着双目失明的阿勇伯和林晨辉一起走来。昔日幸福美满的家庭被拆散，美好的一天何日才能到来。

　　一个男人因为凶杀案含冤入狱，而真正的凶手则逍遥法外。凶手是一位文人，对祖国接连不断发生的背叛事件和人心冷漠而感到心寒。身陷囹圄的男人在遇到一些奇怪神秘的事件后，感到牢狱生活似乎不再那么难以忍受。

　　A suicidal alcoholic’s last day teems with images of anxiety and Kafkaesque paranoia. Adapted from Marek Hlasko’s novel ‘The First Step in the Clouds’, Has’ feature debut is cinematic delirium tremens, as young man Kuba Kowalski escapes his cramped flat to wander from bar to bar, unable to escape the trap of isolation. The metaphorical noose tightens as Kuba, nearly saved by the love of a good woman, dives deeper into hallucinatory intoxication.

　　Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.
　　He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.
　　Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.
　　On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.
　　In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.
　　Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.
　　After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.
　　This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.
　　The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.
　　About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."
　　In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.