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　　Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
　　In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed.
　　The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.

科学家吉姆深信自己解开了宇宙的奥秘，打造出可以穿越时空的机器，他在一次实验中发现一株疑似来自未来的大理花，并遇见拥有相同花朵的美女艾碧。当他越深入大理花的来历，越发觉迷人的艾碧并不单纯，不仅和觊觎时空机器的大老板关系匪浅，还可能让他的毕生研究岌岌可危。吉姆决定穿越时空去挽救一切，没想到过去的问题还没解决，未来的自己却受到牵连，命在旦夕，能够帮他的只有神秘的艾碧⋯⋯。

　　讲述了一个美国国防部高级研究计划局科学家接受一项致命任务，带领一队精挑细选的三角洲部队士兵进驻一个被战争摧毁的城市，这里游荡着被称为“幽冥”的神秘幽灵，它们无形无色，能在不经意间造成大规模的伤亡。

　　特吕弗的第一部彩色片，也是其作品中最富社會及政治意識的一部。在未來世界裡，書籍一概被禁止，讀書便是犯罪，所有書籍都要交出焚毀。消防員的任務不是滅火救人，而是焚書和捕捉讀書人。於是有一些愛書者，把書背熟，希望日後可以流傳，這些人稱為「書人」。男主角本是一個忠心的消防員，焚書是他的職責。有次認識了一個女孩，受到她的影響，漸漸改變了人生觀，發現了書本中原來充滿了靈性的世界。經過這種溫馨親切的心靈生活，使她不能再忍受冷酷無情的機械社會。最後，他偷閱書本的背叛行為被妻子告發，他與情人設法逃往另一個符合他們理想的美麗世界，在那裡有書籍的存在，重複人類真正的生活。
　　改編自美國作家雷·布烈伯里的科幻小說。（電影雙周刊）」