The Round Dance (1950)

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Movie
German title The dance
Original title La Ronde
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1950
length 97 (110) minutes
Rod
Director Max Ophüls
script Jacques Natanson
Max Ophüls, based on the play Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler
production Ralph Baum
Sacha Gordine
music Oscar Strauss
camera Christian Matras
cut Léonide Azar
occupation

Der Reigen (La Ronde) is a French film by Max Ophüls from 1950 based on the play Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler .

content

The round dance is a series of pictures divided into ten sections about double standards and hypocrisy, instinctuality and transience of love and sexuality and depicts ten erotic encounters, whereby the social ladder is climbed, from prostitute , soldier and housemaid to young master , wife , husband and sweet things From girl to poet , actress and count , who at the end meets up with the prostitute again and thus closes the " round dance ".

A whore persuades a soldier to get involved with her. The latter later takes up a relationship with a chambermaid who, two months later, turns the head of the son of his master. The young man, in turn, has a liaison with a distinguished married woman. Her marriage to her husband is quite listless, since the husband calculates his net income even in bed. In turn, her husband cheats on her with a young woman, the sweet girl. She raves about a poet who is passionate about becoming an actress. The former desires a count and officer who saw them on the stage. The count finally has a nocturnal adventure with the prostitute from the opening sequence. When he leaves the whore, he meets the soldier on the street and asks him to show him the due respect for someone of higher rank with a greeting.

The film supplements Schnitzler's literary model with the figure of the conférencier (Meneur de jeu), who appears on a carousel (Ringelspiel) , guides the viewer through Vienna around 1900, connects the scenes and also intervenes directly in the plot. In addition, there are parallel montages that show twice the future of a couple that isn't a couple: the husband waits in vain for the sweet girl in the Chambre Séparée , while the sweet girl is already with the poet, and the sweet girl waits just as in vain for the poet at the stage exit of the theater, while the latter is dedicated to the actress in the cloakroom.

Emergence

30 years after the world premiere of the scandalous play Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler, Max Ophüls filmed the play, which was forbidden on stage, with almost all the popular stars of French cinema in the 1950s.

“When we made the film 'Der Reigen', it wasn't about making a Viennese film. We wanted to translate Schnitzler's thoughts into film. "(Max Ophüls)

Oscar Straus composed for the film the dance waltz Rotates you in the dance in the old way , where he made the Sylphentanz La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz paraphrased.

criticism

“The 'round dance' of meeting and releasing partners in the Viennese bourgeoisie around the turn of the century is atmospherically dense and convincingly staged with smiling ease and flirtatious charm. Oscar Straus' music underlines the musical character of the dramaturgy. "

"Flirtatious-frivolous masterpiece"

- TV movie

Awards

The film was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1952 (Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Set) and won the British Academy Film Award for Best Foreign Film in 1952 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The dance. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used