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Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.。有人戏称这部电影是“四个男人的一台戏”。 影片中基本没有特别引人的情节，没有激烈的动作打斗场面，甚至没有撩人心弦的爱情故事，然而绕有趣味的是，影片除却赢得了1700万观众，还被当时权威电影杂志《苏联银幕》评为1983年最佳影片。 这样一部既叫座又叫好的影片讲述了前苏联20年代四个青年音乐家组办爵士乐队的故事。在那样一个“火红的年代”，属于“资本主义意识形态”的爵士乐很难被苏联官方接受。出现在影片中几乎所有文化场合的标语“艺术要为劳动人民服务！”是那个时代的典型象征。四个热爱爵士乐的青年就这样不合时宜、一波三折地进行着他们“不可能完成的任务”。 影片拍摄完成的80年代，苏联人已经开始通过一些“非法渠道”接触西方文化，当时，《巴黎最后的探戈》录像带开始半地下流行，持不同政见歌手的音乐会也几乎场场爆满。因此，在这样一种社会背景下影片中发生的故事立刻能得到观...。