Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Berliner Reigen

Found a 2006 German film directed by Dieter Berner that adapts Schnitzler's Reigen into contemporary Berlin.





http://www.berliner-reigen.de/en/history.html

Press kit: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/79658366/Berliner%20Reigen-Press%20Kit%20English.pdf

Excerpt from the Press kit: "Lili is working as a casual hooker in Monbijou Park. She
is cheated out of her money by one of her suitors, a drug dealer named Mike. Shortly after, Mike seduces an asylum-seeker from Ukraine. This Ukrainian girl has a cleaning job in the house of a concert manager whose son attempts to romance her. The son later seduces a married woman, an acquaintance of his parents. The married woman has to overcome this affair with her dentist husband. The dentist dreams of revenging his wife’s infi delity by having an affair with his cute assistant. His cute assistant flirts with a celebrity photographer. The photographer has an intimate connection with an actress. All characters meet once again at the photographer’s private showcase. At this event, the actress seeks out the showcase’s sponsor, a sensitive heir of a wealthy industrialist family. As is the nature of the round dance, the heir finally ends up on the dingy living room sofa of Lili, the casual hooker."

I think what's key here is the characters finding themselves in the same venues (the park and private showcase) that comes close to what has been discussed for our staging of The Blue Room - having all the characters within a confined space or smaller geographic area that connects them (whether knowingly or not).

Availability: I think it is available as a Region 2 (PAL) disc, but looks pretty rare.  The distributor contact information can be found in the link above.

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