Straub-Huillet’s adaptation of Heinrich Böll’s biting satire Bonn Diary presents the reflections of a reactivated officer who is summon ed to the West German capital by the Ministry of Defense to establish an Academy for Military Memories. Straub considered his film to be an intervention against German rearmament in the Adenauer era: "Machorka-Muff is the story of a rape, the rape of a country on which an army has been imposed, a country which would have been happier without one."
　　In "Machorka-Muff," Mr. Straub, employing the cold, somewhat expressionistic but always loquacious approach of his other films, comes closest to underlining the almost subliminal irony of his themes. He briefly outlines, through the performance of Colonel Machorka-Muff, a former Nazi who is reinstated in the Adenauer regime, the unchanging thinking of the Nazi and/or the military mind. As the colonel of the title, Dr. Johannes Eckhardt is properly cold and convincing as the believer in the rights of the soldier. Although it is the shortest and earliest of Mr. Straub's films, it is both the most lucid of his works and the most clearly indicative of his potential as an imaginative filmmaker.

　　在保加利亚的一个小镇，年轻的老师在寻找一个盗贼，因为她想通过教育改变人心。然而当她自己陷入危机的时候，她能否为自己寻找出正确的道路？

　　文水市川剧团将出国演出名剧《真假如来》 。为了争到出国名额，人们立即开始了行动。地委书记的夫人、办公室主任洪向青首当其冲挤掉了地委张副书记的团长位置，并依靠权势，把跟艺术毫无关系的的赵部长、李局长拉来做副团长。心急如焚的处长包林当机立断挤掉主角跃艺，自己出演大肚罗汉，可不曾想这个机会被自己的上级范处长夺去了。失落的包林把事情捅到省委。跃艺在某领导支持下找到剧团。跃艺与范处长和先一步来的包处长，三个罗汉在后台你争我夺，令人哭笑不得。