rheingold 1978 Klaus Schilling

Germany, 1977. A mature, rich and bored woman called Elisabeth (Elke Aufderheide) is taking a ride with the “Rheingold”, a first-class high-speed train of the seventies along the river Rhine. In the train she is meeting her old school mate and lover who is working as a waiter and falls in love with him again. Her husband, a busy politician, realizes what’s going on and tries to catch the train to face his wife and her lover in a fatal showdown.

Director: Niklaus Schilling - release: 1978
Writer: Niklaus Schilling
Actors: Elke Haltaufderheide, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Gunther Malzacher, Alice Treff

That’s the whole storyline of this well-shot German independent movie, but director Niklaus Schilling (“Nachtschatten”, “Der Westen leuchtet” and “Der Willi-Busch-Report”) uses weird editing techniques and lots of flashbacks and dream-like sequences to explain what going on – and what could have happened.

720 x 512 px 1.28 GB 1:27:30
audio GERMAN
subs: English Russian German