故事发生在十字军东征时期,罗宾(凯文·科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰)身陷囹圄,带着两个狱友,罗宾杀死了警卫,成功越狱。途中,一个狱友不幸死去,临终时,他将遗物交给罗宾,托付他务必将此带给他的妹妹玛利亚(玛丽·伊丽莎白·马斯特兰托尼奥 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 饰),而另一位狱友亚森(摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰)则成为了罗宾最坚定忠诚的战友。 一次偶然中,落难的罗宾在森林中遭遇了一伙由穷人所组成的强盗,罗宾凭借着自己的勇气和智慧感化了他们,并且彻底放弃了自己原有的身份,和穷人们一起奋战,对抗残暴的统治者,而受到打击的统治者们当然不会对此坐视不管,一场恶战即将拉开序幕。
“It is a film from an extended series. It is hard to say who is the main character of “The Soviet Elegy.” There are more than a hundred faces of our compatriots. But, of course, it is not by chance that it is the destiny of a famous political figure, Boris Nikolayevitch Yeltsin, that bears a special accent in the film. Though he got to power following quite typical ways, his uncommon character puts him out of the ordinary, and in the author’s opinion it may be determined by his uncommon human nature. Our hero exists within the tragic pattern of the soviet socialist life. He is a character of a drama, of which he is one of the authors. “The Soviet Elegy” can hardly be called a documentary film in the proper sense. Of course, the author guarantees the accuracy of chronology, but he insists on an artistic mode of thinking, not on a political or historical investigation.”