Hotel manager Marcus Winter is awaiting an important visitor to the Emirates Palace Hotel.\rHis long-time friend – the representative of a big tour operator – should be arriving soon to inspect the hotel.\rBut instead of his friend, it’s a new inspector that comes – Sarah Riems, whose ideas concerning the needs of hotel guests greatly differ from those of Marcus.\rTrying to impress Sarah with the distinctive flair of his hotel, Marcus makes a grand presentation, emphasizing the spectacular regional cuisine and even taking the inspector on several trips into the breathtaking desert. Still, it looks like a hard sell…\rAt the same time, Anna, the hotel’s decorator, excitedly awaits the arrival of visitors of her own - her pen-pal Max and his friend Holger. Although Max and Anna have only once briefly met, his extremely romantic letters have filled her heart with passion.\rOnce her guests are settled in the hotel though, it becomes quickly obvious to Anna that the Max who had inspired such a love in her through his letters is much different than the one she now sees before her.\rIt’s the artistic Holger who is presently stirring her desire, which leads to a growing rivalry between the two men that strains their friendship.\rMeanwhile, the single mother Renate and her son Tobias have traveled to the hotel for a dream holiday. Soon, Renate’s real reason for the trip to Dubai surfaces - she wants Tobias to become acquainted with his father, who operates boat tours for the hotel guests – and who doesn’t even know his son exists…
1974年8月7日,法國雜技名人菲普·珀蒂(羅·麥克吉 Paul McGill飾)在紐約貿(mào)大廈高達110層(412米)的兩座大樓之間,成了一次至仍令人嘆為止的壯舉—搭起了一條跨天穹的鋼,完成了長45分鐘的大膽表演。誰想不到,這害羞的25歲男孩菲利普在朋友們的助下,縝密查籌劃,突層層關卡,于神不知鬼覺地完成了次極其危險瘋狂的“藝犯罪”。菲普在鋼索上跪或躺,時慢行時而舞。影片鏡頭膩地捕捉到當年無比驚的分秒,并動地重演了場,再加上物訪談等多手法,使得部逐夢世貿(mào)廈間的紀錄,在美國911事件后,彌足珍貴。\r這部由BBC、Discovery和UK Film Council聯(lián)合出品的傳記類紀片《走鋼絲人》,榮獲2009年第81屆奧斯卡金像獎-最佳紀錄長片,2009年第62屆英國電影電視藝術學獎-最佳英國影片,及2008年第21屆歐洲電影-最佳紀錄片獎提名?
On an emotional journey in Morocco, an entrepreneur pieces together the turbulent life of his estranged mother and meets her adopted daughter.