From "Der Reigen" to "La Ronde" Transposition of a Stageplay to the Cinema

According to Gerd Schneider's well-researched article on the reception of book, play, and film, it was not any one scene in particular that created an uproar, but how family life, marriage, Christian religious values, the officer class, and the class of actors were defamed and degraded. Feelings and passion react like mechanical physiological impulses, like chemical elements which sometimes unite, separate, and destroy one another.2 It is the determinism of the turn of the century showing the absurdity of life.