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La Ronde is a 1950 French anthology film directed by Max Ophüls and based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play La Ronde. Set in Vienna in 1900, it shows ten amorous encounters across the social spectrum, from a street prostitute to a nobleman, with each scene involving one character from the previous episode.
La ronde. Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls's delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's controversial turn-of-the-century play Reigen.
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La Ronde (also known by its original German title, Reigen) is a play in which ten people form an unwitting interpersonal circle with their secret sexual relationships. It was written by Arthur Schnitzler in 1897 and was controversial at that time.
La ronde was made in France, where the filmmaker had been a citizen since 1938 but had not lived for a decade; it was an adaptation of perhaps the most famous and most scandalous play of fin de siècle Vienna, Reigen, by Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931); its cast consisted mostly of French actors but also included the Italian Isa Miranda, who ...
La Ronde (1950) marked the German-born director's triumphant return to Europe (he had fled to America in World War II) with a film of sparking wit, visual grace, continental sophistication and elegant poise.
- Max Ophüls
- Anton Walbrook
The first of these was La Ronde, an inspired and exceedingly tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the scandalous stage play Reigen by the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, which was intended to satirise the class-dodging sexual habits of Viennese society at the turn of the 20th century.
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La ronde. Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls’s delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s controversial turn-of-the-century play “Reigen.”.
