Heute Nacht Oder Nie (1972)
Directed by Daniel Schmid
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
This Swiss film, Tonight or Never, bears no relationship to the 1931 Melvyn Douglas/Gloria Swanson film of the same name. Instead, ballet, pantomime, tableaux, slow motion and other exaggerated techniques are effectively used to recount events during a European festival in which servants and masters briefly changes places. The soundtrack tellingly uses popular music of all sorts from the '30s.