在这部一只灰蓝色大鸟犯罪/科幻/惊悚片中,This critically well-received independent German film production was made and first seen in 1970, but did not receive general release until 1971. A group of five scientists have invented a machine which will unravel the whole fabric of time and space but have managed to blot the full memory of their achievement from their minds. They did this to prevent the complete destruction of space-time as we know it. However, they also programmed themselves to remember everything if someone uses the key words "a big grey-blue bird." Gangsters bent on world domination and a young documentary film-team track down these scientists, each attempting to learn their secrets for completely different reasons.
The poet Tom-X (Klaus Lemke) meets the vagrant and former scientist Belotti (Walter Ladengast), who has developed the formula with four colleagues. According to Belotti, he is encoded in a poem of which he only knows a single verse. When he dies a short time later, Tom-X goes to search for the other four scientists. Apart from him, numerous agents still seem to chase the secret of the formula. Whether it is only a result of the poetical imagination of Tom-X is still uncertain.
