Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Chinesisches Roulette (1976) The film is about a very complicated relationship in one seemingly prosperous family of a wealthy Munich industrialist. Once both spouses were supposedly going on a trip - Ariane's wife (Margit Carstensen) - to Milan, husband Gerhard (Alexander Allerson) - to Oslo. Their
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Chinesisches Roulette (1976) The film is about a very complicated relationship in one seemingly prosperous family of a wealthy Munich industrialist. Once both spouses were supposedly going on a trip - Ariane's wife (Margit Carstensen) - to Milan, husband Gerhard (Alexander Allerson) - to Oslo. Their 14-year-old disabled daughter Angela (Andrea Schober), at one time ill with polio, who spends almost all her time with the silent governess Traunitz (Masha Meryl) was supposed to stay at home. But the girl, who believes that her illness caused discord in the family, the mutual infidelities of the spouses, about which she is fully aware, and also caused her parents, especially her mother, to dislike her, had completely different plans. She called their estate, told them their parents were leaving, and she wouldn't come either. Gerhard, like Ariana, did not intend to go to any foreign country. He met at the airport his mistress Irene (Anna Karina), together they went to the estate. What was their surprise when they went on a walk and returned to the house, they found Ariana there, along with her lover, Gerharad Kolbe (Ulli Lommel). Having experienced a natural sense of awkwardness, but retaining their composure, they tried to put the situation into a humorous channel and laugh at it. But everything went awry when their daughter and governess showed up at the estate late at night. The next day everything became even more complicated, the daughter was always in command, no one dared to strongly object to her. In the end, she offered to play Chinese roulette - this is when people ask a character from among them, and then ask each other questions, the answers to which are trying to describe him. The whole thing ended almost (or maybe even completely) tragically, because we will never know for whom the second shot we heard was intended, but the results of which were never shown to us. The film, in principle, is not bad, although slightly tedious, but you can see, the topic is quite serious, although, of course, watching films, people will not learn to resolve difficult situations encountered in life, which are often provoked by themselves, or even organized by them.
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