Romy2009

Director
Torsten C. Fischer

Acters

Jessica Schwarz (Romy Schneider)
Thomas Kretschmann (Harry Meyen)
Guillaume Delorme (Alain Delon)
Maresa Hörbiger (Magda Schneider)
Heinz Hoenig (Hans Herbert Blatzheim)
Karlheinz Hackl (Wolf Albach-Retty)

Her craving to live life to the fullest helps her overcome several strokes of fate – but ultimately her life is too short to satisfy her longings…

The daughter of the celebrated actor couple Magda Schneider and Wolf Albach-Retty, Romy Schneider is confronted by fame very early in life – and to her, it means banishment to boarding school and little time with her parents. Yet she, too, discovers her love for acting while in boarding school, and at the age of 15, her mother arranges for her to star in her first film. Two years and several films later, she debuts as Empress Elisabeth in “Sissi,” the first film in a trilogy that has become immortal and that determined the fate of Romy Schneider. Romy conquers millions with her refreshing naturalness and youth. Yet she rebels against the excessive sweetness of her image and refuses to make a fourth Sissi feature. Instead, she accepts an offer to shoot her first film in France, where she meets and falls in love with a then unknown young actor named Alain Delon. The German public, not to mention Romy’s own mother, feels betrayed…

“What ‘Romy’ particularly excels at is casting, with actors who look astonishingly like their actually existing antagonists. And what director Thorsten C. Fischer does cleverly is mix documentary-like ‘behind-the-scenes’ and ‘home video’ footage of Romy and her surroundings, giving an authentic touch to the events.” – Cinemagazine.nl

“The movie is well made. Jessica Schwarz does her best to do Romy justice, and she does it quite well.” – Moviepilot.de

“Jessica Schwarz does an excellent job. The same applies to the rest of the ensemble, from which Thomas Kretschmann (as Harry Meyen) stands out.” – Kino.de