Margit Carstensen

A successful fashion designer abandons a sadomasochistic relationship with her female assistant in favor of a love affair with a beautiful young woman.

Chinese Roulette, set in an isolated house during a weekend break, is like Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None without the murders - a tense psychodrama in which infidelities are revealed and families breakdown. At its centre is nouvelle vague icon Anna Karina, a rare outsider alongside the familiar Fassbinder faces.

After revealing to her husband that she has been having an affair, Anna leaves him. In a bid to understand, devastated husband Mark follows her and soon starts to realise that Anna is hiding a secret of monstrous proportions.