Chinese Roulette (1976)
Chinesisches Roulette (original title)Reference View | Change View
- Not Rated
- 1h 26min
- Drama, Thriller
- 30 Mar 1977 (France)
- Movie
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Anna Karina | ... |
Irene Cartis
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Margit Carstensen | ... |
Ariane Christ
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Brigitte Mira | ... |
Kast
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Ulli Lommel | ... |
Kolbe
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Alexander Allerson | ... |
Gerhard Christ
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Volker Spengler | ... |
Gabriel
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Andrea Schober | ... |
Angela Christ
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Macha Méril | ... |
Traunitz
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Roland Henschke | ... |
Beggar (uncredited)
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Armin Meier | ... |
Man at Service Station (uncredited)
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Directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | ... | (a film by) |
Written by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | ... | () |
Produced by
Michael Fengler | ... | producer |
Barbet Schroeder | ... | producer |
Jean-François Stévenin | ... | associate producer |
Music by
Peer Raben |
Cinematography by
Michael Ballhaus |
Editing by
Ila von Hasperg |
Editorial Department
Juliane Lorenz | ... | assistant editor |
Art Direction by
Helga Ballhaus | ||
Peter Müller | ||
Kurt Raab |
Makeup Department
Jo Braun | ... | makeup artist (as Joe Braun) |
Production Management
Michael Fengler | ... | production manager |
Christian Hohoff | ... | production supervisor |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ila von Hasperg | ... | assistant director |
Sound Department
Roland Henschke | ... | sound |
Wolfgang Hoffmann | ... | sound |
Camera and Electrical Department
Albert Gall | ... | lighting technician |
Helmut Gstoettl | ... | lighting technician |
Ekkehard Heinrich | ... | lighting technician |
Horst Knechtel | ... | assistant camera |
Additional Crew
Ulrike Bode | ... | assistant: producer (uncredited) |
Erik Schumann | ... | voice dubbing: Alexander Allerson (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Filmverlag der Autoren (1976) (West Germany) (theatrical)
- New Yorker Films (1977) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Cinegate (1978) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Tikva-Filmi (1984) (Finland) (theatrical)
- UFA Video (West Germany) (video)
- e-m-s the DVD-Company (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
- Atlantic Film (2011) (Finland) (DVD) (8-disc Fassbinder Collection)
- Ripley's Home Video (2015) (Italy) (DVD)
- Carlotta Films (2018) (France) (theatrical) (re-release) (restored version)
- HBO Max (2020) (United States) (video) (VOD)
- Leopardo Filmes (2022) (Portugal)
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Plot Summary |
Married Gerhard and Ariane Christ and their teenage daughter Angela Christ are an upper class family living in Munich. Stemming from a childhood disease, Angela wears a brace on her leg and requires crutches to walk in her permanent physical disability. Concurrent planned trips by the spouses, Gerhard's to Oslo and Ariane's to Milan, are both fronts as each has for years embarked on an affair apiece, Gerhard with Irene Cartis, a French hairdresser, and Ariane with Kolbe, Gerhard's assistant. What neither further knows is that the other is having his/her latest tryst at their country mansion. Stern Kast and her adult son Gabriel, an aspiring writer, who are the caretakers of the mansion, have long known about the Christs' respective affairs and have, until now, managed to keep the secrets, doing so for their own benefit. The mansion becomes even more crowded as beyond Gerhard, Irene, Ariane, Kolbe, Kast and Gabriel, a seventh and eighth arrival are Angela and her mute governess Traunitz, Angela who somewhat orchestrated this gathering in wanting to expose her parents' respective affairs. Angela has a further mission in embarking on a game of Chinese roulette including all eight members of the mansion, it basically a question and answer game of psychology to uncover how the game players truly view the others. The questions are what Angela's end goal is and whether she can achieve it in the eight playing the game. Written by Huggo |
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Box Office
Budget | DEM1,100,000 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
Movie Connections | Referenced in Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976). See more » |
Soundtracks | Radioactivity See more » |
Quotes |
[English subtitled version]
Gerhard Christ: Won't you answer me, Kolbe? I asked if you love my wife. Kolbe: Love? We've gotten used to each other. Gerhard Christ: Of course, but it *was* love? Kolbe: Who knows? Maybe it still is. Maybe that's love too - getting used to someone. Gerhard Christ: You're probably right. See more » |