With this film, Fassbinder got the opportunity to work not only with members of his regular informal repertory company including Ulli Lommel. The film plays as a. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette is one of the most emotionally flat and inscrutable films I've ever seen. Ruleta china (Ruleta rusa en algunas traducciones) es una película escrita y dirigida por el director alemán Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Su título original es. A documentary by Thomas Honickel, with testimonies by Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann and. Fassbinder (), is kind of a minimalist work, and, as it turns out, the quite right surrounding for a very special form. W. Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs and writes a bleak psychological drama which was made after Fassbinder let go of his regular actor troupe. fassbinder wiki. . "Chinese Roulette", directed by R. Made after Fassbinder disbanded his 'stock company' of actors, Chinese Roulette is quite different from his earlier bourgeois satires. Chinese Roulette is a harsh and cynical work of frightening accuracy. As Angela seemingly holds an entire household in the grip of her hand, Fassbinder repeatedly questions the various power dynamics at work here.