LA RONDE
by Max Ophüls
synopsis
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
international title: | La Ronde |
original title: | La ronde |
country: | France |
year: | 1950 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Max Ophüls |
film run: | 93' |
release date: | IT 27/08/1950, MC 05/09/1950, FR 27/09/1950, DE 21/11/1950, SE 16/12/1950, DK 17/01/1951, UK 27/04/1951, AT 01/09/1951, FI 25/01/1952, NL 15/02/1952, GR 09/2007 |
screenplay: | Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls |
cast: | Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani |
cinematography by: | Christian Matras |
film editing: | Léonide Azar |
art director: | Jean d'Eaubonne |
costumes designer: | Georges Annenkov |