3 Tage in Quiberon

Director: Emily Atef
2017, b/w, 115 minutes

The conventional German cinema of the 1950s was not conducive to the creation of international film stars, although the Austrian-born Romy Schneider was one of the rare exceptions. Thanks to SISSI (1955) and other films related to the Heimatfilme ("homeland films") genre, she became more popular than she preferred. As an actor, she was only able to free herself of her bubblegum image by going abroad. She began a new phase in her career in France in the sixties, but she took her psychological baggage with her. She rarely spoke about her problems in public, but she did in 1981 in an interview with the Stern magazine reporter Michael Jürgs – an event that the director Emily Atef has recreated using a top-notch cast and fictional embellishments.

Emily Atef was born to an Iranian father and a French mother in West Berlin. At the age of 13 she was sent to school in France, where she finished school in 1993 with a baccalauréat. For a time, she worked as an actress in London. Her only film role was in 2004 in Marseille by Angela Schanelec. In 2001 Atef began studying directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, which she completed in 2005. Her first feature film Molly's Way was awarded the German Film Promotional Prize for the best screenplay at the Munich Film Festival. She received the prize together with co-author Esther Bernstorff. The film also received the Special Jury Prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata.


For age group 18 years and above.

Friday Films are the monthly screenings of German films at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata. One film is screened every third Friday of the Month from 6.30 pm. All films are in German language with English subtitles.