Chinese Roulette

Chinesisches Roulette, feature film, 1976

DIRECTED BY: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Chinese Roulette

CAST:
Alexander Allerson,
Margit Carstensen,
Roland Henschke

SCRIPT:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Synopsis:
Angela is an intelligent daughter of divorced parents who forgot about each other. She uses crutches, but that doesn’t keep her from coming up with a plan of how to join her parents together. She invites them, with their lovers, to a family mansion in the countryside. Her parents believe that the other is on a business trip, and they are surprised to find out that the other came but still decide to stay. The next evening, Angela imposes on them a game of truth – Chinese roulette…

color, 86 min