工程师彼特(大卫·摩斯 David Morse 饰)被武装分子绑架,罪犯要求彼特的雇主支付六百万美元的赎金,面对数额如此巨大的赎金,皮特的雇主回绝了绑匪的要求,保险公司亦采取了回避的态度。丈夫遭遇如此不幸,四处求助无门的爱丽丝(梅格·瑞恩 Meg Ryan 饰)最终找到了谈判专家特瑞(罗素·克劳 Russell Crowe 饰),这也是她能够找到的最后一根救命稻草。 在和绑匪谈判的过程中,特瑞发现整个绑架事件并没有他所想象的那么简单,与此同时,常年在婚姻中遇冷的爱丽丝对于稳重可靠的特瑞产生了真挚的感情。最后的期限眼看着就要到来,特瑞能够顺利的营救出彼特吗?他和爱丽丝之间的感情又是否能够有一个圆满的结局呢?
1973年的第四次中东战争中,一架携带着核武器的以色列战机在叙利亚被击毁,核弹随之便被时间和风沙掩埋。然而29年后,核弹却被一对平民夫妇掘起,并廉价变卖给军火商,最后兜售给了恐怖分子,而这些恐怖分子正在策划一场在美国繁华集会地点的核爆,并将其嫁祸给俄罗斯,意在挑起新一轮世界大战。年轻警觉的CIA情报分析师杰克·瑞恩(本·阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰)在与俄罗斯新任总统会面时,隐约感到事有蹊跷,并通过眼线很快洞察了恐怖分子的惊天阴谋。然而瑞恩的判断却未能得到局里的重视,在一筹莫展之际,他得到了资深睿智的老分析顾问威廉·卡伯特(摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰)的信任与合作,然而仅凭他们二人之力,能否赶在恐怖分子下手前找到核弹,阻止这一毁灭性的悲剧发生呢? 本片改编自美国军事作家汤姆·克兰西的同名小说。
The history of Danish country church architecture is told by showing scenes of how the church was used by the congregation, beginning with the celebration of mass in a small and simple wooden church 800 years ago, and ending with the congregation singing in a village church of to-day. The development and the growth of the pattern of church architecture is shown. Dreyer in this film shows a series of churches from different periods with churchgoers in period clothing. Each period is separated by a shot of a church bell double-exposed on the sky. Although the film has a vibrant and instructive way of communicating the different epochs and styles to students, it does not exhibit the artistic quality that usually distinguishes a Dreyer film, except perhaps in some of the costumes, which were originally made for Day of Wrath. The board of Dansk Kulturfilm in autumn 1945 decided that their planned church film would exclusively be about village churches. Dreyer would rework the script that was written by editor and folk high-school principal Bernhard Jensen, aided by a committee of experts consisting of architect H. Lønborg-Jensen and Victor Hermansen, curator at the National Museum of Denmark. Dreyer had a first draft ready in mid-March, entitled Kirken er et gammelt Hus (The Church Is an Old House), which was distributed to the members of the committee for their comments. In the last half of July, Dreyer and Victor Hermansen travelled the country to look at suitable churches. They researched the details and at Dreyer’s request a number of technical changes were made to the churches, including the removal of porcelain holders for electrical wiring in Tveje Merløse Church. On 4 July, Dreyer went in advance to Ringkøbing. Shooting was set to start a few days later with the arrival of the director of photography, Preben Frank, who had fallen off a ladder and broken his leg, Fortunately, he was ready to cautiously start working again within a few days, with his leg in a cast. Otherwise, the production went without a glitch. Everywhere, Dreyer said, they were well received at the vicarages and they had no problem getting enough extras. On 1 august, they returned to Copenhagen with almost all their footage in the can. They only needed to film the church in Skelby, where the weather had been against them, plus a Swedish wooden church in Hedared. The economy was distressed so soon after the war, especially when it came to foreign currency, but there were no real wooden churches left in Denmark and building an interior set in the studio would be too expensive. The finished film was shown for the first time on 24 September 1947 to a small, closed circle, which included the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs. In December 1947, as was Dansk Kulturfilm’s standard practice, the film was presented to the press, politicians and others on a programme with four other short films.