Chinese Roulette (1976)
Both parents of a young teen who walks with crutches secretly meet their lovers, who both surprise each other at the family’s country home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of “Chinese roulette.”
Actors: Margit Carstensen
Possession (1981)
A young wife left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved, and there is. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
Angry Harvest (1985)
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who’s now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon’s a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn’t tell Rosa he’s seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he’ll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon’s peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war’s end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.