Romy Schneider

In the 1970s, Romy Schneider has established herself once and for all as a serious actress. She broke away from light entertainment cinema, left her origins behind, lived permanently in France, and henceforth grasped herself as a French actress. After LA PISCINE (1968), which led to the breakthrough she longed for, she did her first film in 1969 with Claude Sautet, who was to become her most important director alongside Luchino Visconti. She shot five movies with him, in which she was able to realize all the facets of her skills as an actress and that belong to the highlights of her career. From the 1970s until her early death in 1982, she was a star in France, where she pre-dominantly worked. With LUDWIG II made by Luchino Visconti in 1972, she destroyed the romantic Sissi image once and for all by playing the Empress of Austria as a cold and aloof woman.