Romy Schneider would have been on Sunday 80 years old. She conquered in the 1950s “Sissi”, the cinemas and the hearts of the people. Later, she hated the Sissi Image, which freed France from all restraints.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
“Sissi” makes you the Star
16-years-old Romy Schneider was a Director, undertook Ernst Marischka for his Film “Sissi”. It was not her first appearance in front of film cameras, but the decisive one, because after that, she was a Star. The incredible success attracted some of the sequels, for example, the popularity was, however, quickly became a curse. In Germany and Austria, they wanted to see you only as “Sissi”.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Light entertainment in “Scampolo”
At the end of the 1950s, home movies and light entertainment dominated the German cinema scene. “Sissi” was one of the pillars of the popular German cinema of that time. Also, with your next film Romy Schneider moved in this environment. “Scampolo” was one of the better films of the cutter in these years. There, she played an orphan girl on the side of Paul Hubschmid on Ischia.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
With “The process” on the international stage
Internationally, a number of renowned Directors of the world cinema but at the time, the native Austrian’s attention. The American cinema genius Orson Welles obliged the young actress in 1962 for his Kafka adaptation “The trial”. At the side of Jeanne Moreau, Anthony Perkins and Welles himself excelled Romy Schneider in the role of the young Leni.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
The Cult Film “The Swimming Pool”
In the late 1960s, Romy Schneider, had already produced a few movies in France, was her appearance on the side of her former friend and film partner Alain Delon in “The swimming pool” box-office success. The elegant, especially on beautiful images-setting Melodrama brought Romy Schneider headlines – especially in the tabloid press.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Favorite Director Claude Sautet
“The things of life” of the Director Claude Schneider 1970 Sautet for Romy to a special work in your career. With Sautet, she had found “her” Director. In Sautet you could show on the side from film partners such as Michel Piccoli – what to put in it. They stripped her “Sissi”Image of the final and was perceived as a character actress.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Once again, Empress Elisabeth
In 1972, Romy Schneider should still be see as the Empress Elisabeth, however, in a Film of a completely different artistic caliber. The great Italian Director Luchino Visconti used the by now a recognised actress in his magnificent four-hour Film “Ludwig II”. At the side of Helmut Berger in the title role, Romy Schneider beauty and grandeur exuded.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Scandal Success I: “Trio Infernal”
However, Romy Schneider fought in the mid-1970s, still in Germany, maintained the prejudices of the tabloid press began to spread on the relish. The actress was resented, that she didn’t want to be more “Sissi” and also dear in France, turned. Scandal episode like “Trio Infernal” (1974) ensured that it has been here in Germany more and more popular.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Scandal success II: “night visor”
Directly after the “Trio Infernal” turned Romy Schneider “night iris,” in which she plays an unsuccessful actress, soft-core porn to earn money. Especially in these two movies, Romy Schneider, limits tested, showed a lot of bare skin and put excessive performances. In France, she was awarded with prizes, in Germany, the audience was still so far.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Failed return to the German cinema
Romy Schneider’s Attempts to gain a foothold in Germany again, failed. This was not due to her acting skills. The Heinrich-Böll-filming of “group picture with lady” was in the cinema, and the artist was also perfect. The Directors of the New German cinema could start with the “German” Star from the neighboring country of France little.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Farewell: “the passerby of Sanssouci”
Your last years of life were changing partnerships characterized and were overshadowed by the tragic accidental death of her son. The traces of this private suffering, you could look at their recent performances. “The passerby of Sanssouci”, came in 1982 in the cinema, was her last Film. The German Premiere in the fall of 1982, she did not live to see. She died a few months before.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
“Sissi” makes you the Star
16-years-old Romy Schneider was a Director, undertook Ernst Marischka for his Film “Sissi”. It was not her first appearance in front of film cameras, but the decisive one, because after that, she was a Star. The incredible success attracted some of the sequels, for example, the popularity was, however, quickly became a curse. In Germany and Austria, they wanted to see you only as “Sissi”.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Light entertainment in “Scampolo”
At the end of the 1950s, home movies and light entertainment dominated the German cinema scene. “Sissi” was one of the pillars of the popular German cinema of that time. Also, with your next film Romy Schneider moved in this environment. “Scampolo” was one of the better films of the cutter in these years. There, she played an orphan girl on the side of Paul Hubschmid on Ischia.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
With “The process” on the international stage
Internationally, a number of renowned Directors of the world cinema but at the time, the native Austrian’s attention. The American cinema genius Orson Welles obliged the young actress in 1962 for his Kafka adaptation “The trial”. At the side of Jeanne Moreau, Anthony Perkins and Welles himself excelled Romy Schneider in the role of the young Leni.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
The Cult Film “The Swimming Pool”
In the late 1960s, Romy Schneider, had already produced a few movies in France, was her appearance on the side of her former friend and film partner Alain Delon in “The swimming pool” box-office success. The elegant, especially on beautiful images-setting Melodrama brought Romy Schneider headlines – especially in the tabloid press.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Favorite Director Claude Sautet
“The things of life” of the Director Claude Schneider 1970 Sautet for Romy to a special work in your career. With Sautet, she had found “her” Director. In Sautet you could show on the side from film partners such as Michel Piccoli – what to put in it. They stripped her “Sissi”Image of the final and was perceived as a character actress.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Once again, Empress Elisabeth
In 1972, Romy Schneider should still be see as the Empress Elisabeth, however, in a Film of a completely different artistic caliber. The great Italian Director Luchino Visconti used the by now a recognised actress in his magnificent four-hour Film “Ludwig II”. At the side of Helmut Berger in the title role, Romy Schneider beauty and grandeur exuded.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Scandal Success I: “Trio Infernal”
However, Romy Schneider fought in the mid-1970s, still in Germany, maintained the prejudices of the tabloid press began to spread on the relish. The actress was resented, that she didn’t want to be more “Sissi” and also dear in France, turned. Scandal episode like “Trio Infernal” (1974) ensured that it has been here in Germany more and more popular.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Scandal success II: “night visor”
Directly after the “Trio Infernal” turned Romy Schneider “night iris,” in which she plays an unsuccessful actress, soft-core porn to earn money. Especially in these two movies, Romy Schneider, limits tested, showed a lot of bare skin and put excessive performances. In France, she was awarded with prizes, in Germany, the audience was still so far.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Failed return to the German cinema
Romy Schneider’s Attempts to gain a foothold in Germany again, failed. This was not due to her acting skills. The Heinrich-Böll-filming of “group picture with lady” was in the cinema, and the artist was also perfect. The Directors of the New German cinema could start with the “German” Star from the neighboring country of France little.
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The ten most beautiful films with Romy Schneider
Farewell: “the passerby of Sanssouci”
Your last years of life were changing partnerships characterized and were overshadowed by the tragic accidental death of her son. The traces of this private suffering, you could look at their recent performances. “The passerby of Sanssouci”, came in 1982 in the cinema, was her last Film. The German Premiere in the fall of 1982, she did not live to see. She died a few months before.
With only 43 years of Romy Schneider died – probably of heart failure, caused by by tablets of abuse and alcohol. Her former life, she discovered companion on the Morning of the 29. May 1982, at a Desk in the common Parisian apartment. Many said at the time that they died of “a broken heart”, the many blows of fate and the merciless hunt the press have driven them in death.
However, Schneider has enjoyed their success. As she once said: “people liked it, the audience liked it, so it was the right one! I liked it also. I was blessed, I was the Princess in front of the camera, I was always the Princess!”
The sweet Star of German cinema
In the first years, Schneider has sought the spotlight. Her career rockets started with the kitschy “Sissi”-films. In the three films of Romy Schneider, Elisabeth of Bavaria, called to the Empress of Austria – plays “Sisi” – was. It was danced to the sweet Star of the German post-war cinema, at many balls and enjoyed the fame until its seized, it was all too much and France fled.
Even after the three Sissi movies, she played the senses, yet Prince – like here in 1959 in “Katja, the uncrowned Empress”
You don’t have at the time tried, not only professionally, from a kind of Strait-jacket, a kind of “small world” to break out. You have to want to be wanted by the same things, no longer rotate in a circle, and in France, it was just a new world, a new life, said Schneider, later, about their escape to the neighboring country.
Romy Schneider turned with great Directors and has been recognized
In France and throughout Europe, as well as, at times, even in the USA, she was the Star and recognized actress. Her films with Directors such as Luchino Visconti and Claude Sautet, Claude Chabrol and Orson Welles made from the “Sissi” a distinguished character actress.
Romy Schneider made a Film after the other. Phase way, she took indiscriminately offers and spent. That this was all too much, she realized only when it was already too late: “I don’t want to give away all my strength, and my nerves just for this profession. It is no longer enough for me.”
Dream Couple: Romy Schneider and Alain Delon – a godsend for the tabloids
Private-Romy Schneider, had it not necessarily easier. Many of the relationships you referred to, rarely of long duration and often ended up in front of an audience. Newspapers and magazines rushed to her private misery. Worst of all they met of the terrible accidental death of their then-fourteen-year-old son in July of 1981, from which she never recovered.
Success at work, tragedies in the Private
For many years, Romy Schneider, believed to be able to your temper to master, to find your emotional balance. But they also confessed that they only know “really sky-high, euphoric” or “sorrowful to the point of death”. At the end of the mental pain won.
Nearly 60 films she has made in the years up to 1982, a little theatre, in Talk-Shows, Festivals, and balls. You searched for the Public and at the same time spurned. Your misery and your despair, you cried out in the late years, in many of her film roles.
So cheerful, as here, in the movie fragment of Henri-George Clouzots “The hell”, she was seen only rarely
After her death, it was hardly quiet. Dozens of books have appeared – from former companions, distant and close friends, of professional biographers and gossip-addicted reporters, countless picture books. Alice Schwarzer published recently an Interview tape of an intimate conversation recycled, which originated a year ahead of Romy Schneider’s death. In addition, the document were shot documentary films as well as feature films on the ill-fated Star, the last of them the excellent German Drama “3 days in Quiberon,” by Emily Atef, with Marie Bäumer in the role of Romy Schneider.
Today, Schneider is a myth
Romy Schneider’s last years were surrounded by a healthy Dose of tragedy and the early death of movie stars provides today to ensure that your career in retrospect, something Mythical, something unreal, the idea that you can be 80 years old.
More about Romy Schneider, there is also in the new issue of CINEMA.