Chinesisches Roulette

During the day, as the adulterous Christs come to terms with their respective infidelities, Angela tries to play them and their lovers off each other.

The stage is set for a night of suspenseful revelation when Angela suggests playing Chinese Roulette, a psychological guessing game, over dinner.

In Chinese Roulette, one team tries to guess which one of them the other team is thinking of by asking questions. Angela selects the members of each team.

Ariane's team asks the questions and Angela's team gives the answers. The game has an edge of cruelty, and the results involve everyone in the chateau.

The deadliest and final question posed is, "What would this person have been in the Third Reich? Kast suggests that the subject of the questions is herself, and the others uncertainly agree with her.

Angela contradicts this; the subject is in fact her own mother, Ariane. Enraged by this and by Angela's hysterical laughter, Ariane points her husband's pistol at Angela, then turns and shoots Traunitz.

However, this turns out to be only a superficial flesh wound. Irritated by Gabriel, Angela tells him that for the last two years she has known that he has plagiarized every word he has written.

This riveting character study of a transgendered woman defies categorization, as it joins together — on some primal, intuitive level — melodrama, tragedy, and a unique strain of comedy which is both merciless and tender.

He had played some intriguing, and bizarre, earlier characters for Fassbinder — including the tormented wannabe philosopher Gabriel i n Chinese Roulette and the deranged Ernst who tries to copulate with houseflies!

Spengler reportedly lived this role fully, although not surgically, and even spent most of his offscreen time with Fassbinder. The actor also relished the spontaneity which came with getting final script pages hours, or minutes, before filming.

Incredibly, most of the shots were done in just one take. Volker Spengler continues to act in theater productions in Berlin — in October he was in the two-person play 4.

As a kind of counterbalance to the number of sparely designed, quickly shot Doris Wishman films I have been watching in recent months, I have also been watching films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the West German director whose sense of color and style and his love of Douglas Sirk meant that no frame in a Fassbinder picture ever existed without a great deal of thought and care having gone into it.

I would like, therefore, to focus on five performers in the following series of posts, looking at two roles for each actor and how he or she made such an impression on me.

Again, in Mother, Mira portrays an older woman who must deal with the death of her husband and how she can go on with her life, although in this case the plot is even more political since her husband has recently died by suicide after murdering his boss at their factory in a fit of extreme rage Mr.

Chinese Roulette, however, is a totally different story. Küsters Goes to Heaven. Brigitte Mira does not have the lead in Chinese Roulette, but her note-perfect portrayal of a cruel and gossipy matron is a triumph.

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You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Complete credited cast: Anna Karina Irene Cartis Margit Carstensen Ariane Christ Brigitte Mira Kast Ulli Lommel Kolbe Alexander Allerson Gerhard Christ Volker Spengler Gabriel Kast Andrea Schober Edit Storyline 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.

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So ist ein sehr künstliches und sehr kunstvolles Gebilde voller melodramatischer Symmetrien entstanden, in dessen formalem Gerüst die Menschen wie Marionetten zappeln.

Eine Geometrie der Kälte und der menschlichen Langeweile. Es ist der Tausch, der Mehrwert — wie Marx sagen würde —, der die Beziehungen der Handelnden bestimmt.

Das Ehepaar ist nicht mehr wirklich zusammen und beisammen, ihre Tochter ist in der Gefühlswelt der Eltern, besonders der Mutter, nicht mehr Tochter, sondern: Ballast.

Man hat die Partner gewechselt und eine Gouvernante , Traunitz, noch dazu stumm, ist so etwas wie die soziale Mutter Angelas.

Die Lüge, der Betrug und die kontinuierliche Anspannung beherrschen die Szenerie, die man — als die beiden Paare sich im Schloss begegnen — durch Lachen lösen will.

Doch das wirkt nur momentan. Der Tausch ist längst vollzogen, nicht nur der Partnertausch im Verhältnis zur weiter existierenden offiziösen Ehe der Eltern, auch der Elterntausch.

Dazwischen steht Angela, die mit ihrem geschienten Bein auf Krücken durch das Schloss geht, in die Zimmer schaut und den Eltern den Spiegel vorhält angesichts ihres gescheiterten Lebens.

Der Sex ist das einzige Bindemittel, der Markt, auf dem die Tauschbeziehungen sich regeln, die Geschäftsbeziehungen existieren. Die Kamera von Michael Ballhaus umkreist die Figuren, die hinter ultramodernen Plexiglasmöbeln Schutz suchen und sich in Spiegeln verdoppeln.

Die formalen Manierismen weisen die Inszenierung als intellektuelles Produkt aus, als unterkühlte Demonstration, wie Menschen zu Monstern werden.

In keinem anderen Film stellt er besser unter Beweis, wie wichtig ihm die Komposition von Körpern und Gruppen ist, und kein anderer Film ist so gefüllt mit Spiegelungen, Rahmungen, Fensterblicken und Türöffnungen, mit Transparentem und Verdecktem, mit Ängsten und Sehnsüchten, denn all diese Formen zeigen nur die zerstörte Gefühlswelt der Figuren Fassbinders.

Bis dahin hat Rainer Werner Fassbinders Starbesetzung … aufgestaute Aggressionen, verletzte Liebe, gekränkte Gefühle, Hass und unterdrückte Unzufriedenheiten explosiv freigesetzt.

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Als Roulette Bilder ihr eine Pistole reicht, zielt sie auf ihre Tochter vor dem Fenster. Chinese Roulette (German: Chinesisches Roulette) is a 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. In Chinese Roulette, the two halves of an unhappily married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Christ (Alexander Allerson and Margit Carstensen), meet by accident at one of their sumptuous vacation homes in the German countryside, each spouse having gone there with his/her lover (Anna Karina and Ulli Lommel, respectively). This get-together was orchestrated by the couple’s disabled daughter Angela (Andrea Schober), who sees through each parent’s façade of fidelity and resents them for well-masked. Chinesisches Roulette: Greece (transliterated title) Kineziki rouleta: Hungary: Kínai rulett: Italy: Roulette cinese: Japan (Japanese title). Chinesisches Roulette, Chinese Roulette () - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Allerson, Margit Carstensen DVD NEW. We are always open and willing to solve any problem. This all culminates in a lengthy sequence that unfolds almost entirely in a single room as the eight characters play a game of Chinese roulette. Not too important to go into the rules but needless to say it involves one team asking questions of the other and allows bitter things to be said and revealed thus pushing the film to its emotional climax. Trailer Bilder. Barbet Schroeder. Jetzt streamen:. Phyllis and Harold. Payment methods. Release date. Payment details. The specific requirements or Stargamrs of your reviewing publisher, Arsenal Gegen Chelsea teacher, institution or organization should be applied.