Germany, Austria, France, b/w, 115 min., 2018
Director: Emily Atef
Main Cast: Marie Bäumer, Birgit Minichmayr, Robert Gwisdek and Charly Hübner
Genre: Drama
An aesthetic lesson about self destruction and the interaction of journalism and stardom. Romy Schneider’s words still resonate today: “Verbal rape is unfortunately unpunishable ”. (Die Welt)
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.
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