Rossini
A sharp Munich ensemble comedy turns a fashionable restaurant into a nightly arena for film-industry ambition, romantic pursuit, and conspicuous vanity.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- witty
- sardonic
- irreverent
- cinephile movie night
- german cinema retrospective
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The Rossini restaurant is the nightly meeting place where the film’s egos display themselves to the surrounding social world.
Producer Oskar Reiter aggressively pursues the film rights to Jakob Windisch’s bestselling novel.
Producers, writers, directors, actors, and social aspirants converge around film-making ambitions and romantic self-display.
Zigeuner searches for his ideal leading woman while Reiter pursues Valerie amid the restaurant’s competing egos.
Films like Rossini, and why
The Player
ensemble satire of media ambition, artistic egos, and self-conscious cultural elites
The Dinner Game
restaurant-centered social comedy driven by romantic entanglements, vanity, and escalating interpersonal absurdity
La Grande Bellezza
biting metropolitan comedy about status, desire, and performative social circles
Movie Details
- Director
- Helmut Dietl
- Release Date
- 1997-01-23
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 (47)
Cast
- Götz George
- Mario Adorf
- Heiner Lauterbach
- Veronica Ferres
- Joachim Król
- Armin Rohde
- Meret Becker
- Gudrun Landgrebe
- Hannelore Hoger
- Jan Josef Liefers
Common questions
- What is Rossini about?
- A sharp Munich ensemble comedy turns a fashionable restaurant into a nightly arena for film-industry ambition, romantic pursuit, and conspicuous vanity.
- What is Rossini like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Rossini as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Rossini violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Rossini as mild.
- Which films are like Rossini?
- Films with a similar feel include The Player, The Dinner Game, and La Grande Bellezza.
- How long is Rossini?
- Rossini runs 118 minutes.
