Reigen (1973)
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Cast
Senta Berger, Helmut Berger, Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Peter Weck, Erika Pluhar
In late-19th-century Vienna, a chain of romantic pursuits links a prostitute, a soldier, a chambermaid, and a circle of lovers.
The story
In late-19th-century Vienna, a prostitute picks up a soldier, but he soon turns his attention to a chambermaid. The chambermaid becomes the object of a young gentleman’s advances, as he tests the methods he will later use to woo a young wife. Meanwhile, that wife’s husband spends time with another young woman in a private room. This opening web of pursuits sets several lovers and would-be lovers in motion, with each encounter connecting to another person in Vienna’s social circle.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Vienna at the end of the 19th century. A prostitute picks up a soldier, then loses him to a chambermaid. The young gentleman tries out on the chambermaid the methods he will soon use to woo a young wife. Meanwhile, her husband is amusing himself with a sweet young thing in a private room. She, in turn, pursues a poet, who finds inspiration in her. The poet, for his part, is fascinated by an actress who is being courted by a count. The count, finally, ends up in the prostitute’s bed after a night of carousing.
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