전투기 80여 대를 격추하며 연합군 조종사들의 간담을 서늘케 했던 독일 공군의 전설적인 영웅 붉은 남작(Red Baron) Manfred Von Richthofen의 실화를 다룬 영화. 1916년 1차 세계 대전이 한창인 프랑스 북부 연합군 지역의 한 장례식에 4대의 독일 전투기들이 날아들어 추모의 꽃다발을 떨어뜨리고 사라진다. 전략 결혼으로 얽히고 설킨 유럽 왕족과 귀족 사회에서 적이자 친구인 독일 조종사들이 전사한 영국 장교를 조문하려고 왔던 것. 문제의 4인 중 하나인 맨프레드 폰 리히트호펜 남작은 1차 대전 양 진영을 통틀어 가장 많은 격추 실력을 보였던 전설의 비행사였다. 그에게 있어 공중전은 영광스럽고 품위 있는 신사적인 스포츠 이벤트와 다름없었다. 그러나 우연히 만난 야전 간호사 케이트와 사랑에 빠지면서 전쟁의 잔혹성과 민중의 비참한 운명에 눈 뜬 그는 프로이센 제국에 의해 전쟁 선전 도구로 이용당하고 있는 자신에게 환멸을 느끼게 되고...
A motley of vacationers on a bus headed for a week long vacation at a seaside resort. Among them: a single, moderately famous singer; a nerdy, onanistic man; a couple of old ladies reaching senility; a couple of young gals looking for an amorous adventure; a family with a boy unsure about where he fits sexually; a beautiful woman that, besides working as a trip guide, has pretensions of being a music composer; a couple of gay men; and another family where the parents are stuck in a sexual ice age while their twentyish daughter is looking to connect with a man.
Lovers & Murderers is about the ongoing war between those who have and those who want to have what the others have. The have-nots see themselves as poor victims trying to get for themselves what is justly theirs. But when the have-nots become haves, they continue to see themselves as victims of the hordes baying for what is justly theirs, and they have neither the energy nor the security to enjoy what they have obtained. The movie takes place in the microcosm of a small apartment building. The principal goal of the young people who share rooms in the building is to move into their own room and, some day, a real apartment. They scheme to get what they're after: form short-lived alliances, petition, frighten, marry, become pregnant, anything that might work. Lovers & Murderers presents Páral's vision of mankind caught in a cyclical process in which ideology pales before the pettiness, cruelty, and self-justification of human nature.
