La Ronde

Directed by Max Ophüls

Written by Arthur Schnitzler, Jacques Natanson, Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

Cast

Anton Walbrook

Raconteur - le meneur de jeu

Simone Signoret

Léocadie, la prostitutée

Serge Reggiani

Franz, le soldat

Simone Simon

Marie, la femme de chambre

Daniel Gélin

Alfred, le jeune homme

Fernand Gravey

Charles Breitkopf, son mari

Gérard Philipe

Le comte

Danielle Darrieux

Emma Breitkopf, la femme mariée

Jean-Louis Barrault

The Poet

Odette Joyeux

Anna, la grisette

Isa Miranda

Charlotte

Jean Clarieux

Le brigadier sur le banc (uncredited)