A Rose: That's What Life Is All About
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Rosy Selavy arrives in New York, with her chessboard under her arm. occupying Duchamp's place at the Washington Square chess table (where he converses with the composer John Cage) later invites his suitors to a game. Rosy comes in contact with John Cage, with Broadway star Jean Halbert, with French singer Janet Maillard and Soho artist Hannah Wilke, before embarking on a long journey across the country, where she meets Mary Jane Collins , singer of Memphis Blues' stumbles upon a colony of Puritans, meets some hippies in the Far West, being finally raped and murdered on a beach in Los Angeles by psychiatrist Hal James.
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Edited by Rosemarie Stenzel QuastShot by Lothar E StickelbrucksScored by Uwe Czybulka
Also known as
- C'est la vie, Rosede
- Ein Junggesellenspielde
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13 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Kurt Kalb
as Brady
Jean Halbert
as Belle Haleine aka Renée
John Cage
as Schachspieler (Chess Player)
Y Sa Lo
as Fischerle
Janet Maillard
as Chansonette
Mary Jane Collins
as Blues singer
Hannah Wilke
as Künstlerin (Artist)
Hal James
as Kriegsveteran
Lothar E Stickelbrucks
as Zuhälter
Hans Christof Stenzel
as Kunde an der Bar
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2Producers
1Other crew
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