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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. The film, a bleak psychological drama, climaxes with a truth-guessing game, which gives the film its title.
- DEM 1.1m (estimated)
Mar 30, 1977 · 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.
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 3 min
Aug 7, 2021 · The Psychological Warfare of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's ‘Chinese Roulette’. By Cameron Olsen. Published Aug 7, 2021. Fassbinder's bizarre melodrama uses one tense encounter as a microcosm...
- Cameron Olsen
Dec 31, 2014 · Chinese Roulette (1976) by. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Publication date. 1976-11-16. Topics. extramarrital affair, married couple, new german cinema. Language. German. 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.
May 23, 2021 · Chinese Roulette is the kind of film that may not be easy to sit through, but it will leave viewers with a lot to ponder. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s cinema can seem forbiddingly intellectual and unusually cold.
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Aug 2, 2003 · One of writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s more obscure works, Chinese Roulette —because words, not bullets, do most of the damage here—is also one of his towering achievements: a rigorous illumination of deception as a survival tactic, and a vicious indictment of victimhood, martyrdom, and the games people will play in order to destroy o...
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.
