La Ronde (1950 film)
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100% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama, Romance Duration Language French | 7.7/10 IMDb Director Max Ophuls Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 27 September 1950 (1950-09-27) Writer Arthur Schnitzler (play), Jacques Natanson (adaptation), Max Ophuls (adaptation), Jacques Natanson (dialogue) Screenplay Max Ophuls, Jacques Natanson Cast (Raconteur - le meneur de jeu), (Léocadie, la prostitutée), (Franz, le soldat), (Marie, la femme de chambre), (Alfred, le jeune homme), (Charles Breitkopf, son mari) Similar movies Jupiter Ascending , The Last Witch Hunter , The Avengers , Captain America: The First Avenger , Pitch Perfect 2 , Knock Knock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
La Ronde is a 1950 film directed by Max Ophüls and based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 La Ronde. The title means "the round-dance".
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The film won the BAFTA award for Best Film and was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Best Writing and Best Art Direction (Jean d'Eaubonne).
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Plot summary
Eleven episodes tell the stories of ten illicit sexual encounters involving a prostitute, a soldier, a chambermaid, her employer's son, a married woman, her husband, a young girl, a poet, an actress, a count, and the prostitute again. After each encounter, one of the two partners forms a liaison with the next person, resulting in an unbroken "circle" (ronde) by the end.
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Production
Although at the time of production, Schnitzler's son was still enforcing his father's stipulation that the play — Reigen (or La Ronde) — should never be performed or adapted, Ophuls was able to secure the rights to it because of Schnitzler's additional stipulation that his French-language translator was to own the rights to the French version.
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