Chinese Roulette

Synopsis

Rainer Werner Fassbinder wrote, produced and directed this vicious attack on middle-class morality and the institution of marriage. His analogy takes form in a story of a handicapped teenager who contrives to get herself, both her parents and their respective lovers to a country house all at the same time. Also present are the girl's mute companion, a sinister housekeeper and the housekeeper's sexually ambivalent son, and the scene is set for a weekend of intense embarrassments centring on a potentially devastating truth game of chinese roulette.