Romy: Anatomy of a Face

Romy - Portrait of a face is a TV documentary of the year 1966, the film director Hans -Jürgen Syberberg has made over the film actress Romy Schneider. It was produced by the study program of the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and sent in the spring of 1967 for the first time on television.

Content

Film director Syberberg portrays the aspiring film actress Romy Schneider: The TV documentary was shot over three days in Kitzbühel. Syberberg shows Romy Schneider while skiing and walking in Kitzbühel, by the detailed discussion by the fire about her career expediency alternately: Romy Schneider expressed her great desire to play in Germany theater, but at the same time acknowledges their great fear of stage fright on the stage. She tells about the beginning of her career with the first film role in 1953 alongside her mother Magda Schneider of the page, as well as the great popular success of "Sissi movies ." She talks about her daily life during the free rotation time in Paris, the " star system " in the United States and the shooting of the film, the process (1962 ) with director Orson Welles and about her encounter with Coco Chanel.

Syberberg shows a surprisingly open Romy Schneider, with all the charm of her 27 -year-old physical beauty, the soft - modulated voice, but at the same time you can see their great sensitivity, her nervousness and self-doubt of the actress. The viewer gets a deep insight of Romy Schneider's character gives the portrait exudes a large direct vicinity of. The film is accompanied by music of the 1960s and communicates clearly the leisure life of Romy Schneider.

Film clips

The documentary shows clips from the following movies:

• The process (1962 )
• Chimney No. 4 ( 1966)