La Ronde (1950 film)
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| Directed by | Max Ophüls |
| Produced by |
Ralph Baum Sacha Gordine |
| Screenplay by | Louis Ducreux Kurt Feltz Jacques Natanson Max Ophüls |
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La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler |
| Starring | Simone Signoret |
| Narrated by | Anton Walbrook |
| Music by | Oscar Straus |
| Cinematography | Christian Matras |
| Edited by | Léonide Azar |
| Distributed by | Commercial Pictures (US) |
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95 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
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".
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).
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.
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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