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Exhibition: ‘Romy Schneider: Exposition’ at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès de Cannes

Exhibition dates: 2nd July – 2nd September 2012

Anonymous photographer
Romy Schneider
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© Botti Stills / Gamma-Rapho

“Elle est tourmentée, pure, violente, orgueilleuse…”

“She is tormented, pure, violent, proud…”

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Claude Sautet

Continuing my love affair with the woman that is, eternally, Romy Schneider. J’adore!

Marcus

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Many thankx to the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès de Cannes for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a a larger version of the image.

Jean-Pierre Bonnotte
Romy Schneider
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© Jean-Pierre Bonnotte / Gamma-Rapho

Rarely has an actress been both as beautiful and moving. Rarely has an actress made history so young with an aura so accomplished, just looking, driven by a great desire for the absolute, to escape her own legend. Rarely has a star been both blessed by the gods and as much struck by fate. Rarely has a woman been as bright and as turbulent. Rarely has a foreign aura at this point incarnated France …

It is these paradoxes that this exhibition will highlight. Rare documents, personal items, professional memories and unseen photos tell stories because the route of an actress and a woman of passion, well beyond the screen, has touched the heart of audiences while accompanying the story of the century. We want this exhibition to show the height of what was Romy Schneider was, of what she represents. We want visitors to leave uplifted by her grace and beauty, by which life emerges from it despite the tragedies that have struck – by the obviousness of her talent, the wealth of her career and her encounters.

~ Jean-Pierre Lavoignat

Jean-Pierre Bonnotte
Romy Schneider (with Alain Delon)
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© Jean-Pierre Bonnotte / Gamma-Rapho

“She reminds me of those thoroughbreds who prance, hypersensitive, at the slightest glance. They need to be flattered and excited at the same time but as soon as they loose the rein, they are capable of achieving the most breathtaking performance! ”

~ Alberto Bevilacqua

Jean-Pierre Bonnotte
Romy Schneider
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© Jean-Pierre Bonnotte / Gamma-Rapho

Anonymous photographer
Romy Schneider
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© Keystone-France /Gamma-Rapho

Jean-Pierre Bonnotte
Romy Schneider
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© Jean-Pierre Bonnotte / Gamma-Rapho

“She is beautiful with a beauty that she has forged itself. A poisonous mixture of charm and virtuous purity. She is as proud as a Mozart concerto and recognises the power of her body and her sensuality.”

~ Claude Sautet

Anonymous photographer
Romy Schneider
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© Botti Stills / Gamma-Rapho

“An amazing actress, she does not manufacture the emotion, does not fake it. She recreates the very far, very deep as the huge waves that shake the sea. No trick. (…) It goes straight to the point. All the superficial, bookish, theoretical disappears. This game seems lyrical and requires musical comparisons. Sautet talking about Mozart with regard to Romy. Me, I want to talk of Verdi, Mahler … ”

~ Bertrand Tavernier

Eva Sereny (Swiss, 1935-2021)
Romy Schneider
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© Eva Sereny / Camerapress / Gamma-Rapho

Anonymous photographer
Romy Schneider
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© Reporters Associes /Gamma-Rapho

Palais des Festivals et des Congrès de Cannes
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06414 Cannes Cedex – France
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Exhibition: ‘Romy Schneider. Wien – Berlin – Paris’ at Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum for Film and Television, Berlin

Exhibition dates: 5th December 2009 – 29th August 2010

Heinz Köster (German, 1917-1967)
Romy Schneider, Berlin 1962
1962
Gelatin silver print
© Foto: Heinz Köster
Quelle: Deutsche Kinemathek

I seen to have become a little smitten by Romy Schneider. What charisma!

Marcus

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Many thankx to the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum for Film and Television for allowing me publish the images in the posting. Please click on the images for a larger version.

Heinz Köster (German, 1917-1967)
Romy Schneider, Berlin 1962
1962
Gelatin silver print
© Foto: Heinz Köster
Quelle: Deutsche Kinemathek

Max Scheler (German, 1928-2003)
Romy Schneider, Venice 1957
1957
Während Dreharbeiten zu SISSI – SCHICKSALSJAHRE EINER KAISERIN
R: Ernst Marischka, A 1957
Gelatin silver print
© Foto: Max Scheler
Quelle: Max Scheler Estate, Hamburg

The exhibition documents the eventful career of Romy Schneider, who by the late 1950s no longer wanted to be Sissi, and by the 1970s was a celebrated star of French cinema. A large number of unknown photographs of Romy Schneider, her film partners, and family from the 1950s and 1960s will be on display from the collections of the Deutsche Kinemathek. The exhibition will also present loans from private individuals and institutions from France and Austria …

The exhibition Romy Schneider. Wien – Berlin – Paris, which the Museum für Film und Fernsehen will present beginning on December 5th, documents the varied and wide-ranging career of Romy Schneider, who no longer wanted to be “Sissi” at the end of the 1950s and was celebrated as a star of French cinema in the 1970s.

Romy Schneider publicly bemoaned her roles in Germany and went to Paris to play women who did justice to her acting abilities and her expectations. She settled in France at the beginning of the 1970s, where she advanced to one of the biggest stars of French cinema. She won several awards and made films with nearly all the great directors and actors of that period. The paparazzi followed the actress at every turn, documenting her strokes of fate for the international popular press, and throughout her life Romy Schneider considered herself to be their victim. Romy Schneider died in Paris in May 1982. To this day, she is admired by millions of fans around the world as one of cinema’s international stars.

This homage, which can be seen in 450 sq. m. of exhibition space at the Filmhaus, treats both the diverse roles and changing image of the actress, as well as her representation in the media.

Pictures from films, the press and her private life are grouped according to recurring motifs and combined with film clips. Media installations show the interplay between projection and active self-promotion. Posters, costumes, correspondence and fan souvenirs will augment the presentation.

Numerous photographs from the 1950s and 1960s of Romy Schneider, her film partners and her family, largely unknown until now, originate from the collections of Deutsche Kinemathek. Loans from other institutions and private individuals will also be on view, for instance from the photographers F. C. Gundlach and Robert Lebeck, as well as from the personal archives of the film director Claude Sautet.

Press release from the Museum für Film und Fernsehen website [Online] Cited 25/05/2010 no longer available online

F. C. Gundlach (German, 1926-2021)
Romy Schneider, Hamburg 1961
1961
Gelatin silver print
© Foto: F. C. Gundlach

F. C. Gundlach (Franz Christian Gundlach) was a German photographer, gallery owner, collector, curator und founder. In 2000 he created the F.C. Gundlach Foundation, since 2003 he has been founding director of the House of Photography – Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

Alain Delon and Romy Schneider in La Piscine/Der Swimmingpool
R- Jacques Deray, F/I 1969
Gelatin silver print
Foto/Quelle: Filmarchiv Austria, Wien

Romy Schneider and Alain Delon in La Piscine/Der Swimmingpool
R- Jacques Deray, F/I 1969
Gelatin silver print
Foto/Quelle: Deutsche Kinemathek

Robert Lebeck (German, 1929-2014)
Romy Schneider, Berlin 1976
1976
Während der Dreharbeiten zu PORTRAIT DE GROUPE AVEC DAME/GRUPPENBILD MIT DAME
R: Aleksandar Petrovic, F/BRD 1976
Gelatin silver print
© Foto: Robert Lebeck

Romy Schneider and Claude Sautet during the shooting of UNE HISTOIRE SIMPLE / A SIMPLE STORY
1978
Gelatin silver print
Foto/Quelle: Yves Sautet, Paris

Claude Sautet

Claude Sautet (23 February 1924 – 22 July 2000) was a French author and film director. Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer. He filmed his first movie, Bonjour Sourire, in 1955.

He earned international attention with Les choses de la vie, which he wrote and directed, like the rest of his later films. It was shown in competition at the 1970 Cannes Festival, where it was well received. The film also revived the career of Romy Schneider; she acted in several of Sautet’s later films. In his next film Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971) she played a prostitute, while in César et Rosalie (1972) she portrayed a married woman who copes with the reappearance of an old flame.

Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres (1974) is one of Sautet’s most acclaimed films. Four middle-class men meet in the country every weekend mainly to discuss their lives. The film featured a cast of major stars of French cinema: Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, and Stéphane Audran. He achieved even further critical success with Mado (1976).

His 1978 film A Simple Story (Une Histoire simple) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film featured Schneider again, this time as a dissatisfied working woman in her 40s. She won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance.

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Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin

Opening hours:
Monday: 10.00 – 18.00
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 10.00 – 18.00
Thursday: 10.00 – 20.00
Friday – Sunday: 10.00 – 18.00

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