Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
他看到的是乌云密布
一个德国人想阻止政治收复丢失的故土的故事，理由是祖国会更强大，因此会导致日后的战争。理由逻辑如此搞笑，骗看片人无思考能力吗？
这可能是我看过最形神兼备的张伯伦，有血有肉有感情，并不觉得导演是给他翻案，希特勒就比较符号扁平化。有既成历史背景束缚，故事就难发挥，不过节奏气氛很好。
不想打仗就要牺牲他人，这种做法是符合人性的。战争是逼不得已而为之的，借此可以分析下目前的东欧问题，可能程度还远远不够扩大化。
这是一部典型的剧情推动电影，背景较为特殊，是根据历史小说改编，对其真实性的认可，是观众观看电影的思想基础。整个影片制作水准较高，故事的节奏把握得很好，紧张而流畅。尽管大家对这段二战历史史实都已经知道，但对影片所描述的故事：剧中主人公为阻止二战爆发而做出的努力，大家并不是很清楚，这也是大家的兴趣点所在。
还原度很高，用了德国和英国的最牛批的一帮演员
前半部分渲染的很好，到了慕尼黑就开始崩坏了，看着着急啊。张伯伦颇有点当年李鸿章式的无奈啊。两个愣头青太不把政治当回事儿了。元首说的没错，他周围的都是没种的软蛋啊~但凡英法或者国内反对势力强硬一点，德国也不至于那么嚣张
有赖原著，两个年轻主角的形象还比较丰满，否则这个故事真的是幼稚。很久没有电影正面描写元首了，样子不像，眼神挺瘆人，西姆莱倒是超像的。
片头开始 忍不住想 两次大战怎么会如此密集地发生在这样的地方。这些年轻人如何进入战争 带着信念 不再回来。
LD说：“也许这就是人类在面对重大历史灾难前的无奈。我们无从知道历史背后的真相，但小说为我们提供了一个可能的视角，这就够了。”
盎撒式历史虚无主义的集中体现，华丽的场面和养眼的卡司，虚构了战前英德青年官僚本着良知为和平作出的努力，为的居然是强行洗白张伯伦维系短暂的和平而作出的绥靖，仿佛张中堂的所谓“务实”只是忍辱负重的缓兵之计，舍得骂名为帝国赢得战争准备的时间。然而不提傲慢的英国初心更在于祸水东引求得苏德火并，事实是英帝的绥靖是以小弟为代价的慷他人之慨，只为自己置身事外，时隔八十多年，NATO先撩者贱又在乌克兰战场外隔岸观火，历史实在是多么相似，最有意思的是片末说张中堂的忍辱负重为英帝赢得最后的胜利争取了时间，只字不提苏联，仿佛二战是靠英帝打下来的，真是滑天下之大稽。
Paul不是没有勇气对着希特勒扣下扳机，他为了信念中的新德国和昔日的爱人恨不得对着希特勒的脑袋清空弹匣，只是当他面对那个他曾经狂热追随过的元首时内心闪过了一丝“怜悯”，曾经的狂热也即将再次点燃。毕竟什么都无法改变的时候试一试又何妨？
张伯伦的功与过通过两个小人物的热血鲁莽的政治行动又被审视了一次
去掉两位虚构的主角，这可以算得上是一部张伯伦传了，有人说有洗白嫌疑，但恰好也给了历史课本里没有的角度，即便在那样的一个年代，许多人都在为和平不懈努力，不管是虚假的亦或是短暂的，再看当下一群人还喊着乌拉
当历史英耽看很好嗑。喜欢这类大变局前夕的电影。不过不同意片尾的文字，美化了。
1938年在捷克没有出席的情况下就把苏台德划给了德国，2022俄罗斯美国欧盟在讨论乌克兰的领土问题。硬要给张伯伦妥协找借口，其实马克龙对英国的评价一针见血“英国从来就是个墙头草”。剧情一开始就很抓人，每个人都有自己的立场和观点，执政党反对党军方间谍错综复杂，演员非常棒。
是这样的，上一次八月君在酒吧碰到可疑的人，他去搭话被爆了蛋蛋还丢了命，所以这次他没有马上出击。你们上班时间怎么可以喝酒。
张伯伦不是一个热爱和平的天真汉，也不是被反战人民逼投降的悲情英雄，而是一个如罗斯福涮日本人一般妙算千里的带政治家！这地洗得镜面都带反光！
片子的节奏不错，演员有不少熟面孔，德国部分剧情的布景也很眼熟，如果你看过巴比伦柏林，一定不会陌生。
修道院楼下又一起抽一根烟并且互喷，『I.. have to fight. We'd all be much better off without it......』
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