Rheingold

Rheingold — Plot

A mature, rich and bored woman called Elisabeth 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.

• Release date
• October 6, 1978
• Runtime
• 91 min
• Director
• Niklaus Schilling

Rheingold — Cast

Elke Haltaufderheide Elisabeth Drossbach Rüdiger Kirschstein Wolfgang Friedrichs Gunther Malzacher Karl-Heinz Drossbach Alice Treff Mutter

R

Reinfried Keilich Erfinder

A

Alfred Baarovy Astrologe

P

Petra Maria Grühn junge Frau Franz Zimmermann Großvater