La Ronde (1950 film)

La Ronde
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Max Ophüls
Produced by	Ralph Baum Sacha Gordine
Screenplay by	Louis Ducreux Kurt Feltz Jacques Natanson Max Ophüls
Based on	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)
Release dates	27 September 1950 (1950-09-27)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

La Ronde is a 1950 film directed by Max Ophüls and based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play of the same name. The title means "the round-dance".

The film was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Best Writing and Best Art Direction (Jean d'Eaubonne). ^[1]

Plot 1
Cast 2
See also 3
References 4
External links 5

Plot

It tells a series of stories about love affairs or illicit meetings involving a prostitute, a soldier, a chambermaid, her employer's son, a married woman, her husband, a young girl, a poet, an actress and a count. At the end of each encounter, one of the partners forms a liaison with another person, and so on.

Cast

Anton Walbrook as Raconteur
Simone Signoret as Leocadie, the Prostitute
Serge Reggiani as Franz, the Soldier
Simone Simon as Marie, the Housemaid
Daniel Gélin as Alfred
Danielle Darrieux as Emma Breitkopf
Fernand Gravey as Charles Breitkopf, Emma's Husband
Odette Joyeux as Anna, the Grisette
Jean-Louis Barrault as Robert Kuhlenkampf, the Poet
Isa Miranda as Charlotte, the Actress
Gérard Philipe as The Count

References

^ "NY Times: La Ronde".

External links

La Ronde at the Internet Movie Database
La Ronde at AllMovie

Films directed by Max Ophüls

The Bartered Bride (1932)
The Merry Heirs (1933)
Liebelei (1933)
Everybody's Woman (1934)
The Trouble With Money (1936)
Yoshiwara (1937)
The Novel of Werther (1938)
Sarajevo (1940)
The Exile (1947)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Caught (1949)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Vendetta (1950, fired)
La Ronde (1950)
Le Plaisir (1952)
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
Lola Montès (1955)
The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)

BAFTA Award for Best Film

Best Film from Any Source 1948–1968	The Best Years of Our Lives (1948) Hamlet (1949) Bicycle Thieves (1950) All About Eve (1951) La Ronde (1952) The Sound Barrier (1953) Forbidden Games (1954) The Wages of Fear (1955) Richard III (1956) Gervaise (1957) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1958) Room at the Top (1959) Ben-Hur (1960) The Apartment (1961) Ballad of a Soldier (1962) The Hustler (1962) Lawrence of Arabia (1963) Tom Jones (1964) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1965) My Fair Lady (1966) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1967) A Man for All Seasons (1968)

Best Film 1969–present	The Graduate (1969) Midnight Cowboy (1970) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1971) Sunday Bloody Sunday (1972) Cabaret (1973) Day for Night (1974) Lacombe, Lucien (1975) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1976) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1977) Annie Hall (1978) Julia (1979) Manhattan (1980) The Elephant Man (1981) Chariots of Fire (1982) Gandhi (1983) Educating Rita (1984) The Killing Fields (1985) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1986) A Room with a View (1987) Jean de Florette (1988) The Last Emperor (1989) Dead Poets Society (1990) Goodfellas (1991) The Commitments (1992) Howards End (1993) Schindler's List (1994) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1995) Sense and Sensibility (1996) The English Patient (1997) The Full Monty (1998) Shakespeare in Love (1999) American Beauty (2000) Gladiator (2001) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) The Pianist (2003) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004) The Aviator (2005) Brokeback Mountain (2006) The Queen (2007) Atonement (2008) Slumdog Millionaire (2009) The Hurt Locker (2010) The King's Speech (2011) The Artist (2012) Argo (2013) 12 Years a Slave (2014) Boyhood (2015)

Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde (1897)

Film	La Ronde (1950) Circle of Love (1964) Choose Me (1984) Sexual Life (2005) 360 (2011)

Stage	Hello Again (1994 musical) The Blue Room (1998 play) Seduction (2004 play) Fucking Men (2009 play)

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