小男孩尼克（胡里奥·博希加斯 Julio Bohigas-Couto 饰）在一个风雨交加的夜晚目睹了邻居安吉尔（哈维尔·古铁雷斯 Javier Gutiérrez 饰）杀害自己妻子的场面。在和安吉尔的追逐之中，一辆车将尼克撞倒，导致了他的死亡。一晃眼多年过去，薇拉（阿德丽安娜·尤加特 Adriana Ugarte 饰）和丈夫大卫（阿尔瓦罗·莫奇 Álvaro Morte 饰）带着他们的女儿住进了尼克曾经居住过的房子。 有一个电闪雷鸣的夜晚，薇拉意外的在电视里看到了尼克，让薇拉感到震惊的是，自己似乎能够通过电视和25年前的尼克对话。在薇拉的告诫之下，尼克免于一死，但过去的改变也牵连着薇拉的生活发生了巨变。大卫不再是薇拉的丈夫，而他们的女儿自然也不复存在。马文（马克·沃尔伯格饰）是一名杀手，尽管他技艺精湛收入不菲，所得钱财却被情人姗黛（莱拉·罗琼饰）和妻子帕梅拉（克里斯蒂娜·艾伯盖特饰）挥霍一aaa。为了赚取更多的钱，马文决定铤而走险，他背着老大派瑞斯（AveryBrooks饰）加入了一个绑架行动，让马文没有想到的是，他和同伴西斯科（卢·戴蒙德·菲利普斯饰）要绑架的不是别人，正是派瑞斯的义女惠子（周佳纳饰）。马文的举动惹恼了派瑞斯，而西斯科更是将全部的责任都推到了马文的身上，就这样，马文成为了派瑞斯追杀的对象。就在这个节骨眼上，惠子竟然爱上了马文，生活搅成一团乱麻的马文这次能够顺利脱险吗？“Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” ( “Song Of The Scarlet Flower” ) was a recent and remarkable silent surprise for this Herr Von; the oeuvre is an excellent Herr Stiller silent film that this German count watched in a newly restored and tinted copy. It combines the well-known aesthetics, technical improvements and artistic merits for which the Nordic director was known and praised since those early silent times till today. The film tells of the merry and carefree love life of young Olof ( Herr Lars Hanson ) a woodsman who during his search for true love, seduces many frauleins ( just like this German aristocrat… well, not exactly because the purpose of this Herr Von’s seduction of rich fräulein heiresses are their great fortunes… ). He will suffer disappointment and deception, all those problems that turn up in any loving relationship. Finally he will find responsibility and maturity, learning during his particular quest that his actions always have consequences in different degrees to the people around him. This Herr Von can describe “Sangen Om…” as a kind of coming of age film, the special introspective growth toward maturity of a free and easy youngster. As this German count said before, the film displays Stiller’s characteristic artistic virtues. ; in the first part of the film, we can see elements of comedy, not exactly like the comedy of intrigues in other Stiller films, but humor of a more cheerful sort, highlighting the self-involvement of our hero. Olof ‘s frivolous flirtations with the different girls eventually turn romantic and then turn into drama. There is conflict in the troubled relationship between Olof and his father and later with the father of his beloved. The beautiful and wild natural landscapes of Norrland and northern Sweden lend the tale a certain power and is characteristic of Herr Stiller’s other silents where Nature emerges as an important character in the story. This is strongly reflected throughout the film but especially during the frantic scene wherein Olof descends into the troubled waters of a river, a beautiful metaphor for the hardships that our hero has to endure until he finds himself. “Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” is an excellent, beautiful film, a solid, technically perfect and intricate production of 1919 that demonstrates once again the importance of Herr Stiller for silent film history.
