The first role of the actress of Austrian origin received, hardly she turned 17 years old. Princess Sisi began a reflection of the young star of screens for many years - other roles in the post-war Germany could not offer her. Schneider sought to get away from the image of naive cute characters, but the time of recovery from injuries dictated its conditions. In the German film industry of the 1950s, Heimatfilm genre (Motherland) was dominated by a unique product of post-war mentality established in sentimental and idealized rural conditions and based on predictable plots and simplified morality. "Yes, I then loved this role," Schneider said, "I was a princess not only before the camera." I have always been a princess. But once I just didn't want to be more princess. "
You must admire her ability to change, "said Martin Hamdorf movie critic
Frame from the movie "Califsha"
New round of career
Romi Schneider and Alain Delon announced their engagement in 1959. Schneider fled from Berlin in a dazzling Paris to be with his French lover and a colleague, actor Alain Delon, creating a national scandal. "I tried to escape from this strait shirt, from this little narrow world. I wanted to get away from the routine that I had in Germany. Paris became a new world, a new life. I needed this freedom, and I used it at the maximum, "Romi recognized. Paris became an artistic "base" Schneider - she became the Museum of the Great Directors of the time, including Lucino Visconti, Orson Wells, Otto Primeinger and Claude Sota. Romi completely dropped the image of a small naive girl and took complex, sexual and provocative roles.
Metamorphosis
Film crims and movie lovers to this day are fascinated by the arter's artistic transfiguration. Films in which she starred in France differed from those who were in Germany. "You must admire her ability to change," said Martin Hamdorf film critic. But in order to make a transformation, it was important to leave Germany and become part of another cinematic tradition. "I don't think she would have a chance to develop further in Germany," said Hamdorf, "the landscape of the German cinema at the time was just sad and dreary." Schneider received several awards, including the French Film Academy Award and German filmmaker in 1977.
She burst between glory, the desire to succeed and the desire for normal life
Frame from the film "Cesar and Rosalie"
Stormy personal life
Schneider more often appeared in French films during the 70s, but a long-term success of the actress on the screen was impossible because of the events of personal life. After Alain Delon threw her, she married the German director Harry Maineen. Maine committed suicide, and their son died as a result of an accident in 1981. Schneider more and more addicted to alcohol and tranquilizers. According to her biographers, she burst out between glory, the desire to succeed and the desire for normal life.
Romi Schneider was found dead in his apartment in Paris on May 29, 1982 aged 43 years. It was suggested that she committed suicide, taking a deadly cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills. However, the autopsy was not conducted. Schneider was declared dead from heart failure.