本片是多次勇夺广东地区收视冠军的同名千集电视长剧的贺岁电影版。
广州西关康家大院疑似发现古文物遗址,一家人听到政府许诺会作出巨额补偿时,喜出望外。家庭会议上,康嫂(沈殿霞)宣布她拟将补偿金分作四分,自己以及三个儿子阿光(苏志丹)、阿宗(郭昶)和阿耀每人各一,但尚没成家或离婚的那份,暂由她保管。二十年前携带幼子阿祖(余文乐)离开康嫂去香港淘金的康伯(曾志伟)看过新闻,也回到广州欲分一杯羹。紧接,这一家便如炸开了锅:康叔想着不久就有大钱拿,借诸多老街坊的保命钱将家里置换一新;最贪财的阿宗和阿婵(虎艳芬)两夫妻决定拿到钱再离婚;阿光和阿耀虽不视钱如命,但有钱总比没钱好,于是急着带外地女友见家长——因为康嫂规定不准讨外地人做老婆,他们为讨她欢心可谓大费周章;阿祖更要命,他喜欢上的女孩(蒋怡)竟是个山东人与韩国人的混血儿,不但自己很能打,还有个非常能打的老爸(黄霑)和老弟,为了将女孩追到手,他没少挨拳头。。A small-town sheriff gets tangled in a web of lies and corruption involving a shady businessman and the cartel while investigating the homicide of a mysterious woman linked to an apparent suicide.。Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal.
Part 1: Ruling by the Book
Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum.
Part 2: What a King Should Know
Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia.
Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power
The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance.
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