洛杉矶的飞机制造厂里,突然发生了一场火灾,工人伯金(Robert Cummings 饰)和朋友简奋勇救火,但简不幸葬身火海,事后调查发现伯金递给简的灭火器中装满了电油,于是警方将伯金定为重大嫌疑人,展开搜捕。获悉这一情况的伯金回忆后发现,灭火器实际出自一名叫做弗莱的工人之手,但警方并未给伯金说明的机会,危急时刻,伯金奋力逃出,追寻弗莱的去向为自己洗脱罪名。在弗莱工作过的农场,伯金发现农场主杜宾居然也跟此事有牵连,于是匆忙逃跑。亡命路途上,铂金结识了广告模特佩蒂(Priscilla Lane 饰),铂金用诚挚打消了后者对自己的怀疑,与她结伴同行。在弗莱可能藏身的荒僻小镇,伯金乔装成杜宾的手下,打入了这个神秘的破坏组织内部……
The 13-year-old Iqbal is a charming, imaginative and fun boy, which, according to his father, is not enough if one is to succeed in the world. But when Iqbal, his little brother Tariq (11 years) and their friend Sille, accidentally blow up their school, his father is the slightest of his problems. The two crooks, Easelman and The Swine, want to get hold of the randomly home brewed explosive and blow up Tivoli to build the biggest parking facility in Scandinavia. To blackmail the kids for the recipe the two crooks kidnap the adorable little brother Dindua (6 years). The hunt to free Dindua and save Tivoli starts - and this requires cooperation, courage and a lot of imaginative ideas, which Iqbal is an expert in delivering.
The lines start with “O Somma Luce” which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in “Paradiso” of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to the end of “Paradiso”. The film is completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations. This is a recent attempt to combine film with literature. The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese. The BGM is “Deserts” that was recorded in 1954. After some moments of darkness, the music ends and a middle-aged man sits on a hill, reciting something. He is Giorgio Passerone, an Italian literature professor, and he is reading out of the last part of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, complete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)