Word: reigenlied
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Such moments occur frequently in this racy, juvenile, artfully photographed peep show by Director Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman). In 1950 France's Max Ophuls made La Ronde, a subtle, deliciously graceful film based on Arthur Schnitzler's period play Reigen. Without losing the rueful cynicism of the original, Ophuls described the efficacy of lust through ten amorous intrigues involving five men and five women. A prostitute takes a soldier. The soldier takes a chambermaid. The chambermaid takes a young man. And so on, until the last lover completes the cycle in the prostitute...
Female Lead: Edith Iselin, as Young Wife in Schnitzler's "Reigen" (HDC); Lisa Rosenfarb, as Jocasta in Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" (Eliot); Lisa Rosenfarb, as Gertrude in Shakespeare's "Hamlet...
...wrote about a character named Anatol (a thinly disguised self-portrait) who was a gay yet morbid epicure, a dandy with a death wish who thought he had to die to be truly free. Through the turmoil of world war and revolution, Schnitzler wrote play after play (notably Der Reigen or La Ronde) in which the characters were driven by unconscious impulses and riven by unconscious conflicts...
...Ronde. A worldly-wise French comedy of bedroom manners in old Vienna, based on Schnitzler's Reigen; with Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon (TIME...
Whether or not it can corrupt anyone's morals, La Ronde (Commercial Pictures) is clearly suitable for grownups and almost as certain to delight them. Based on Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen, it takes an intimate, cynical view of the mating instinct at play in a Vienna that was turning the century without a break in its giddy stride. Director Max (Letter to an Unknown Woman) Ophuls has lovingly put together this wry ode to love, and brightened it with a galaxy of Continental stars: Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Simone Simon, Gerard Philipe, Simone Signoret, Isa Miranda...