La Ronde (1950) on Netflix
NR19501h 33m
A master of ceremonies in Vienna in 1900 presents a round of love in which each encounter passes one figure to the next. A prostitute takes up with a soldier.
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Plot summary
In Vienna in 1900, a master of ceremonies steps before the audience and promises an endless waltz of love, told as a chain of episodes in which one character leads to the next. At his urging, Léocadie, a prostitute, goes off with Franz, a soldier. Franz later meets Marie, a chambermaid, at a dance hall, and the two of them settle on a park bench. Back at the house where she works, Marie gives in to Alfred, the grown son of the family, while his parents are away from home. Alfred then begins an affair with Emma, the young wife of the businessman Charles Breitkopf.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about La Ronde (1950)
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- New York's film censors classified La Ronde as "immoral" and unacceptable for public screening; the producers appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of 1953, and in 1954 the film was approved for exhibition in New York without any cuts.
- Arthur Schnitzler's son was still honouring his father's wish that the play Reigen never be performed or adapted, so Max Ophüls secured the rights to film it in French because Schnitzler had willed the rights to the French translation to his translator, who granted permission.
