Romy - Portrait of a Face
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Romy - Portrait of a Face |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg |
| production | Rob Houwer |
| camera |
Klaus König , Kurt Lorenz |
| cut |
Barbara Mondry , Michaela Berchtold |
Romy - Portrait of a Face is a TV documentary from 1966 that the film director Hans-Jürgen Syberberg shot about the film actress Romy Schneider . It was produced by the study program of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and broadcast for the first time on television in the spring of 1967.
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The film director Syberberg portrays the aspiring film actress Romy Schneider: The TV documentary was shot over three days in Kitzbühel . Syberberg shows Romy Schneider skiing on the Kitzbüheler Horn , walking around Kaps Castle and talking about her career in detail by the fireplace: Romy Schneider expresses her great desire to play theater in Germany and Austria, but at the same time confesses her great fear of it Stage fright on stage. She tells about the beginning of her career with her first film role in 1953 at the side of her mother Magda Schneider , as well as about the great success of the "Sissi films". She talks about her everyday life when she was not filming in Paris, the “star system” in the USA and the shooting of the film The Trial (1962) with director Orson Welles as well as about her encounter with Coco Chanel .
Syberberg shows an amazingly open Romy Schneider, with all the magic of her 27-year-old physical beauty, the softly modulated voice, but at the same time you can also see her great sensitivity, her nervousness and the actress's self-doubt. The viewer gets a deep insight into Romy Schneider's character, the portrait radiates a great direct closeness. The film is accompanied by music from the 1960s and vividly conveys the leisure life of Romy Schneider.
Film clips
The documentary shows excerpts from the following films:
- The Trial (1962)
- Chimney No. 4 (1966)
Web links
- Romy - Portrait of a face in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Romy - portrait of a face at filmportal.de