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Chinese Roulette is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder released in USA on 21 april 1977 with Margit Carstensen
Chinese Roulette (1977)
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Add to a movie listChinese 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. The plot follows a bourgeois married couple whose infidelities are exposed by their disabled child.
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Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, are packing before going off for the weekend, which each intends to spend abroad. While they are away their twelve-year-old daughter Angela, who is disabled and walks with crutches, has to remain home under the care of her governess, Traunitz. Actually, the couple have lied about their travel intentions. Convinced that his wife and daughter will be elsewhere, Gerhard takes his longtime mistress Irene Cartis — a French hairdresser — on a weekend tryst to the family's country house.Actors
Margit Carstensen
(Ariane Christ)
Ulli Lommel
(Kolbe)
Anna Karina
(Irene Cartis)
Brigitte Mira
(Kast)
Macha Méril
(Traunitz)
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