La ronde (1950)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Max Ophüls

Writers:

Louis Ducreux (writer)
Kurt Feltz (writer)

Release Date:

16 March 1954 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A Wonderful Merry-Go-Round of Love With Eleven Stars

Plot:

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening...

Plot Keywords:

Soldier | 1900s | Maid | Hypocrisy | Womanizer

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win

Cast

Anton Walbrook	...	Raconteur
Simone Signoret	...	Leocadie, the Prostitute
Serge Reggiani	...	Franz, the Soldier
Simone Simon	...	Marie, the Housemaid
Daniel Gélin	...	Alfred
Danielle Darrieux	...	Emma Breitkopf
Fernand Gravey	...	Charles Breitkopf, Emma's Husband
Odette Joyeux	...	Anna, the Grisette
Jean-Louis Barrault	...	Robert Kuhlenkampf, the Poet
Isa Miranda	...	Charlotte, the Actress
Gérard Philipe	...	The Count
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jean Clarieux
Paulette Frantz
Marcel Mérovée
Robert Vattier	...	Prof. Schuller
Charles Vissière

Also Known As:

Roundabout

Runtime:

97 min | 110 min (1989 restored version)

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | UK:A (1982) | UK:PG (1990) | UK:X (1951) (cut) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Company:

Films Sacha Gordine

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Dayereh (2000)

Soundtrack:

Der Reigen

A reply to 'writers_reign'

Any individual so facile, so without even the very fundamental tools of perception required to grasp the absurdity of attacking Godard's 'Style' should be quite fully dismissed, their ludicrously fecund assertions with them. Such an individual is one who can only assumed to have never watched a film by either Godard or Ophuls, lest he might have realised the supreme irrelevance of inconsequential Godardisms on a remarkable body of work. So contemptible do I find the incestuously journalistic tripe that this user feels necessary to fob off as critique that, as evidenced, I was move to address it directly, to commit the marked hypocrisy of failing to attend the work itself. You are fortunate then that several other passably fair views of the work, not one that one need think more than once about seeing at the nearest opportunity, exist on this very page.

All we need now is a decent DVD release.