UCLA college student Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards) is playing a game called "Gotcha" (popular on mid-1980s college campuses as "Assassin" or "Tag"), wherein the players are all assigned a mock "hit" on another player by use of a harmless paintball gun. Moore and his apartment roommate Manolo go on a vacation to Paris, France. After touring some of Paris, in a cafe Moore meets Sasha Banicek (Linda Fiorentino), a Czechoslovakian girl. Eventually, Jonathan has intercourse with Sasha, losing his virginity.
Jonathan decides to leave Manolo (who is heading to Spain) and go with Sasha to West Berlin to spend more time with her. Jonathan believes that he is in love with Sasha. There, Jonathan and Sasha continue to have sex and even go to an Oktoberfest beer gathering. One night, Sasha tells Jonathan that she has to go to East Berlin to pick up a package. One night after arriving in East Berlin, Sasha leaves their hotel room and walks to dark street corner. There, Sasha meets a German man who tells her the location of the pickup of her package. Meanwhile, Sasha was being monitored by a Soviet agent, who was sitting in a car at a distance. During the day, Sasha tells Jonathan that if she gives him a certain message, it means that he has to leave East Berlin immediately. At a cafe, Sasha gives Jonathan a package and says that a strudel is inside. A little later, Sasha tells Jonathan to meet her at the butcher shop near their hotel. All of a sudden, a Soviet agent begins to chase after Sasha. Sasha decides to use Jonathan (who is holding her package) to unknowingly get the package over to West Berlin. Meanwhile, Sasha is taken by the Soviet agent and East German secret police.
Jonathan goes to Checkpoint Charlie to cross the heavily fortified border into West Berlin. At the East German customs search, Jonathan is stripped of his clothes and given a cavity search. Meanwhile, Sasha is stripped and searched for possible espionage evidence. Vlad arrives at the border crossing to search for Jonathan, however Jonathan passes the border safely before he can be captured. Once in West Berlin, Jonathan feels liberated by the Westernized society. In the hotel, Jonathan receives a message from Sasha to meet him at a specified location. Jonathan finds out that his hotel room was broken into and robbed of his traveler's checks. Soviet agents eventually find Jonathan in West Berlin and chase him throughout a public park. Jonathan jumps into a water canal and manages to escape from the Soviets and stumbles upon a German rock group headed for Hamburg, who offer him a ride to the airport.
The rock group successfully get Jonathan to the airport (using full-face makeup to sneak him past a checkpoint) and Jonathan finally arrives in Los Angeles Tom Bradley International Airport and to his apartment. Soon, Vlad and a band of Soviet agents arrive too in Los Angeles. Once home, Jonathan stumbles upon a film canister, which was planted by Sasha. Jonathan visits his parents and tells them what happened in Germany but they cannot believe a word of it and think Jonathan is on drugs. Jonathan decides to call the FBI then the Central Intelligence Agency for help. Jonathan returns to find his apartment broken into and looted.
The CIA officer tells Jonathan to give them the photo film canister. At the Los Angeles headquarters of the CIA, Jonathan spots Sasha who looks like she was working there. Jonathan eventually meets up with Sasha. Sasha admits that she is Cheryl Brewster, a CIA agent, originally from Pittsburgh. Out of nowhere, Vlad and his gang begin to chase Jonathan and Cheryl on the UCLA campus. Jonathan eliminates all the Soviets with a tranquilizer gun which he gets from the campus veterinary sciences building. The Soviets are arrested, the CIA agents thank Jonathan for his (indirect) help in obtaining the film, and Sasha tells him she wants to continue their relationship.
After they part, Jonathan talks to a pretty student who rebuffs him coldly. As she walks away, he aims the tranquilizer pistol and shoots her in the rear.
山田洋次的”不散”，跟電影的一生牽絆，在疫情面前感覺無力且脆弱。電影之神請保佑我有電影看
电影本身3星。茨威格，还有电影的营造，加1星鼓励。看过原著，电影有故弄玄虚的感觉，不如小说精彩。
关注疫情，老龄化社会。经典庶民视角。对日本电影史的致敬。老爷爷和老奶奶年轻的故事很不错，但整体情节总感觉有些许的不协调。但是，在当下能看到这样的电影还是会感动。电影的探讨较少，而终归是关注于人。
只能选择一种方式去后悔，淑子你后悔了吗？还是强忍泪水说自己是幸福的
一部老年人拍给老年人看的电影，描述了一个电影神话，也衬托出这个社会已经是垂垂老矣，暮年的气氛太强烈了。
不能嫁给文艺青年啊！北川景子咋那么像张雨绮？
还有最后的谢幕：再见了，志村健先生
“唯精神坚不可摧”，有着这样信念的茨威格同年也自尽了……
“今天的我们，应该矢志不渝地葆有一个信念，那就是，唯精神坚不可摧。”
因为很喜欢原著，所以才看的这部电影。没有想到和原著完全不同，甚至是大相径庭。放弃掉了原著精妙的叙事。改动了原著的结构，结局，甚至是主旨。变成了一部展现极端环境下人的精神斗争的电影。而且将茨威格的小说改成这样，我是真的无法接受，其实完全可以考虑原创的。前面的叙事十分扭巴，后面要好很多。其实男主的表演很好，但因为这个别扭的剧本，我很难代入到故事中。看到后半段，当我完全放弃了看到对原著的精彩改编的想法，反而带入到了故事中，观感很好。我想如果我没有看过原著的话，可能会很喜欢这部电影。所以我觉得观影是一件非常私人的事，很多情况都会影响你的观影感受。
经历这两个多月的封闭，对这个电影男主的心路历程有了深刻的理解。内心越丰富的人，越需要精神生活，越需要得到反馈…不过，战胜了寂寞孤独痛苦，也就真的超越了自己本能，成为更“刀枪不入”的人。
#bjiff 11th# 第一场北影节的电影。名字很唬人，但实际根本就是在讲一个愿打一个愿挨的爱情故事啊喂，过分。更过分的是，我竟然有被一些细枝末节的剧情和台词感动到。
淑子看着旧照片和乡问那个小女孩现在在哪的时候
这样一部老气横秋的电影，给松竹当100周年献礼片真的很合适了
#北京电影节#细腻的电影适合淅淅沥沥的雨天，着急忙慌的我还在湿滑的路面上狠狠摔了一跤……一个选择逃避、毫无耻感、伤害家人的父亲最终获得救赎和家人的谅解，并不是一个新鲜的剧本，但本片把他拍得并没那么讨厌，特别是台词，笑着笑着就笑不出来了。
改编自茨维格的作品，被纳粹幽禁的男主阴差阳错得到了一本棋谱，在之后的日子靠背棋局来缓解被囚禁的困境。将短篇小说改编成电影，原著精巧的设计对于电影的时长来说难免短了些。免不了会加入不少情节、时空、人物。男主演过《无主之作》中艺术学院里戴帽子的教授，演技超赞。
一如单枪匹马毁掉《梦二》的沢田研二浮表的演技，影片薄气得很，山田洋次对于电影，对于自己另一个人生可能性充满想像和温情，荒废在这个质感如《爱尔兰人》般单薄做作的成品里，可叹。
很多台词是真戳，也有日子没看这样有趣且感动的片子了.🎬
朋友烂泥说：“为什么看电影的人，生命得到了延长，因为拍电影的人生命缩短了，能量守恒。 ”能看着电影在电影院死去是电影之神的眷顾。
为当年的松竹、清水宏和小津爆哭。如果电影之神真的存在，也应该是像米沃什的“时代精神”一样，走来走去。
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