Margit Carstensen
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Chinese Roulette: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel. Both parents of a young teen who walks with crutches secretly meet their lovers, who both surprise each other at the family's country home.
- (4.8K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1977-03-30
A wealthy couple, with a daughter Angela, a young teen who walks with crutches, tells each other they are off for the weekend on business (he to Oslo, she to Milan). Actually, both are meeting their lovers, and both go to the family's county home, Traunitz castle.
Chinese Roulette (German: Chinesisches Roulette) is a 1976 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars Margit Carstensen, Ulli Lommel, and Anna Karina. [2] The film, a bleak psychological drama, climaxes with a truth-guessing game, which gives the film its title.
Chinese Roulette is a film fraught with cruelty and downright evil, lurking beneath sinister grins and betrayed by disconcerting laughs, waiting to be inflicted on everyone. Revolving around a married couple who are both having affairs, it's also a film of fraudulence and dishonesty.
Shocking revelations occur when cheating spouses and their daughter (Andrea Schober) gather at their country estate. Taking one step at a time, Mr. Fassbinder is exploring new methods of cinema ...
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- Margit Carstensen
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Drama
Chinese Roulette is a cruel movie. It is firmly stuck in Fassbinder's harsh, icy world and is a film of cold intellectualism. Set in a house of dishonesty, Chinese Roulette functions as a beautiful chamber piece. Yet it slowly reveals social anarchy and the everyday fascism of family life.
Dec 31, 2014 · Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family's county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette".
