CHINESE ROULETTE

Showings

PFS - East Theater 2 Sat, Jun 14, 2025 2:00 PM
PFS - East Theater 2 Sun, Jun 22, 2025 1:00 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Curated
Director Series - Fassbinder
Release Year:1986
Rating:NR
Genre:DRAMA
Production Country:WEST GERMANY
Original Language:GERMAN
Run Time:86 MIN
Cast/Crew Info
Director:RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Cast:Anna Karina
Margit Carstensen
Brigitte Mira Brigitte Mira
Ulli Lomel

Description

RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER | WEST GERMANY | 1976 | 86 MIN | NR | GERMAN 

Fassbinder crafts a tense psychological drama, in which an affluent family's pristine facade unravels as a seemingly innocent game evolves into a ruthless exposéof their darkest secrets.

Cast: Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lomel


Part of the Philadelphia Film Society's Rainer and His Friends - Fassbinder Director Series.

The most recognizable, polarizing, and unclassifiable filmmaker out of New German Cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder crafted dozens of films—in addition to plays, adaptations, and other texts—in a very short, prolific period of time. Utilizing a recurring troupe of actors throughout his many films, Fassbinder continually altered the perception of what modern cinema can be. Whether it’s confronting a taboo topic with great zeal or deconstructing the cinematic melodrama, Rainer and his friends changed films forever.

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