简介：电影改编自真实事件。故事发生在挪威一座名为巴斯特瑞的小岛上，那里关押着许多年轻的犯人，他们的年龄最小的只有11岁，最大的也不过18岁。每一天，在这个封闭而又压抑的环境中，孩子们被迫做着超负荷的工作，因为只有这样，他们才能得到仅够果腹的食物。在这里，对犯人们的打骂是家常便饭，又是只因一个小小的失误，有时甚至连原因都没有。在这样糟糕的环境下，犯人们被驯化了，没有人想到反抗。 十七岁的厄令（本杰明·赫尔斯塔德 Benjamin Helstad 饰）刚刚抵达这座恶魔之岛，这里是他服刑的地方。岛上的残酷的生活让厄令感到绝望，当狱卒的压迫突破了临界点酿成悲剧之时，正是厄令带领着他的同伴们展开了暴力抵抗。就当厄令夺取了岛屿的统治权之时，挪威政府向岛上派出的150人的军队正在急速接近。
简介：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)