3 Days in Quiberon

Director: Emily Atef, Germany/Austria/France, b/w, 115 min., 2017

Awards:
German Film Awards 2018 - Outstanding Feature Film,  Best Direction, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Cinematography, Best Film Score
European Film Awards 2018 - European Composer

Nominations:
German Film Awards 2018 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Makeup, Best Sound
Berlin International Film Festival 2018 - Golden Berlin Bear (Best Film)

Robert Lebeck’s photographs of Romy Schneider are world-famous. They capture this actress’s contradictory nature, her exuberance, melancholy and pain. Lebeck also took the photographs that were to accompany the legendary interview Romy Schneider granted ‘Stern’ magazine reporter Michael Jürgs in Quiberon in 1981 – in spite of her previous negative encounters with the German press. The actress had retired to this Breton spa town to recuperate with Hilde, her close friend of many years, keeping her company. The interview and black-and-white photos form the basis of this fi lm that captures the special atmosphere of these three days in which Schneider bares her soul – to breaking point. The more the actress exposes herself and allows the person behind the celebrity to come to the fore, the more the group dynamics of the quartet kick in.