"this film was shot during a skiing holiday in Kitzbühl" "in the home of Prince Liechtenstein" "God's greetings" "ROMY well, come in" "PORTRAIT OF A FACE" " would you like to have a coffee?" " no thank you, I've already had breakfast the bad thing is ... ?" "up to the Dra-Bahn ?" "with our sledge, and we'll stay up there and I'll sit ... outside in the sun we'll do that that would be really be too far anyway, going to Söldern ?" "today sit down would you like a coffee?" "would you like a coffee?" "in two hours black, wasn't it" "?" "if you slept well ?" "do you want any coffee?" " no thank you - nothing at all?" "nothing, I've already had some, and I've eaten too because I thought that we'd later ?" "have breakfast ?" "there won't be much time ?" "for the film" "?" "that's why" "have you already seen your girl-friend ?" "no." "but there's nobody here" "can I turn on some music?" "I'm 27, that's not that old" "I don't want to spend all my forces, all my nerves just for this profession it isn't enough for me anymore" "it doesn't suffice anymore you want to get away from Paris?" "yes." "this has nothing to do with Paris what's your daily routine in Paris?" "when you're in Paris ... when you're not working ... when I'm not working oh, for a long time I had nothing to do at all" "with a lot of energy and a conscious effort I've wriggled myself out of this idling because, as long as ... my work for the film was over, and I didn't know what to do with myself" "I've slept long hours" "I didn't even have the energy to go for a walk or to do anything at all anything banal, normal, simple whatever, daily routine this is important too, one must ... know ... what daily routine means, and how to live through that" "that went on for a very long time in Paris well, what can I say?" "What did happen?" "nothing" "to force myself to buy some things that could be fun sometimes even though it was only a rented flat, to buy something for the flat" "invite friends in from time to time, but that was also very rare when I think of it, such a long time, more than 2, 3 years in that flat and ... very rarely I had friends in" "one must be able to act the part of a Hausfrau for this too and I can't do it of course I had my Sandra who prepared everything and arranged everything wonderfully but that was rarely somebody came along and I went out with some people, or I was alone most of the time" "or I went to the cinema, or to the theatre, which of course I much preferred" "and I was away lots of the time too" "I wasn't always in Paris when I wasn't working" "I left for the seaside, I went to ... the Côte d'Azur" "I have lost this ... burning ambition" "I ... of course there's something else beside all that" "my life, my private life ... about which I would certainly have ... even two years ago ... that is, no, reflected on it had some thoughts about it all the time, in fact, but that was just momentarily" "and then came the next job and the next job, and I didn't have much time, didn't want to have too much time anyway" "because at the time, there was nothing else" "but ... nothing but work, just work just the profession" "but I no longer have this ambition" "I no longer have the force and I no longer have the nerve and I don't want to anymore" "away, away, away from it all all that fuss, all that hassle all those hectic, enervating ... film shootings, I'll always love them, I'll always return to them, but ... then I'll be done with all that" "to work or to lead a normal life, what do I know to be able to spend some money, and then to get away again six years, that's enough for now" "I'm no city dweller" "I don't want to dig myself in somewhere" "somewhere high up on the mountains, I couldn't stand that either" "I'm too young for that ?" "I would love to be there ..." "from time to time but having to live there all the time?" "I couldn't do that just like that certain ambition" "I lost that just like I lost that feeling that I'd be missing something if I didn't ... spend each day in the city, if I didn't live there and ... like in Paris or wherever going out, meeting people" "so what" "oh, this is no ..." "I don't know on the one hand I'm really suited for it and on the other hand, not at all not at all at least, not for the so-called "star system"" "which I hate but your next film will be different, won't it oh yes, very different very different, a small crew" "je veux rester là je ne peux rien" "je m'en fous de rien c'est drôle, tu sais je n'aime plus rien que lui ce petit ?" "de rien du tout dis-donc ce petit garçon c'est drôle" "je suis consciente, tu sais ne crois pas ce petit garçon ou un autre ne crois pas que ... c'est I'idée, tu comprends" "L'idée, c'est ça c'est tellement fort tu ne peux pas savoir, c'est drôle tu sais mais qu'est-ce que tu fais, je ne peux pas manquer c'est bien je te savais ici c'est vrai?" "mais tu ne m'aimes plus, toi non plus ça ne fait rien" "completely different, no shamming and all that that's why I chose Fred, he takes care of publicity, because you surely need publicity during a film every actor needs a bit of publicity at least, every film actor does" "but ..." "I want to act on the stage" "I really want to" "I'm scared shitless, but I want to" "Herr Syberberg, when I sometimes think about it, and I'm dreaming of it all the time, when I'm imagining that I'd make it, and that I'd have an engagement at the, say, Burgtheater" "the Academy of ?" "a real success in Vienna" "I mean, not only I, but also ... to find a really brilliant new and modern play that would be the right thing, the wisest thing but also the most difficult to find to imagine this, that's beyond words" "I think I'd be ..." "I'd be very happy it would make me very happy but ... then the worries and fears return of stage-fright that I'd lose my nerve and that I'd flunk it because of that" "it was in Wiesbaden, shooting on location" ""When the White Lilacs Bloom Again", the film's title my mother, Willy Fritsch" "Paul Klinger, Hertha Feiler that was more than 10 years ago incredible" "I'm not the only one, many have started early many could say, ok, I have never really been 14" "I have never really been a teenager or whatever, I had a real profession" "I worked, but I wanted to" "I didn't wish for anything else if it had been possible I'd have stared at 7 played in the Municipal Theatre of Salzburg "Little Peter's Trip to the Moon"" "that was everything to me, just to be able to act" "I've never thought of anything else even in school I did nothing but act" "during the shooting of my first picture I turned 15" "I still had offers, but they were all the same until I would have gotten so fat that I wouldn't have fitted into a crinoline that's what I escaped from and all the rest" "away, away from it so I went to Paris and I didn't do anything for 2 1/2 years just looking for work for a long time I made three pictures per year have you counted them?" "I did count them once, but I can't remember now circa?" "what do I know, about 25 a bit more maybe in any case, far too many once my unconsciousness isn't there anymore once my unconsciousness is gone you see, you keep going for 1, 2, 3, 4 films, but then ... then you start thinking" "I suppose at least, I did and then it becomes more serious if one wants to be seriously ... doing the job then it becomes more difficult of course, and it becomes ... all the more difficult" "I could have had a much easier life but it would have been so boring boring" "it could have gone on for years, all I had to do was say yes it was wonderful, no difficulties at all, all running smoothly so let's swim in the same ... the same luke-warm broth and it's fairly simple, there are no problems" "and it's a commercial success" "I won't do it, it bores me to death" "this is so typically German the famous "sky-high rejoicing / despairing to death"" "and it fits too" "M. Kostowitz j'avais 19 ans quand je vous l'ai confié la vie n'a pas été aussi simple que je croyais" "J'ai fais une salade (my mistake)" "I don't take myself seriously it may look like it, but I don't take myself seriously" "certainly not serious enough to think about it to ask myself: why ... are you interested ... in me?" "in so many things beside my work?" "why?" "no ..." "I'm sorry ?" "I don't want to know" "I want to know, but let somebody else explain it why should I ..." "?" "after you became Sissi it was clear, wasn't it you think she wants to be a certain type, an idealization there are so many who did the same, or something similar there can be many reasons but Sissi is dead" "if Romy Schneider is interesting today then there must be something else behind it what can that be?" "I don't know!" "I hope, one day, they'll say:" "her work, what she did the parts she acted in what you can see up there, either on the stage or on the screen" "don't you think that this is the case even today?" "where's the proof?" "there's not much reason for it, I'd say because what are the great things did I do so far?" "very few things where I could say" "I'm glad that ... that was quite good" "I am satisfied but this is too little and this isn't up-to-date anymore" "my first play in another language in another town or parts in Boccaccio, The Trial, The Cardinal and that's all so far" "at least, not enough" "apparently not enough for the press to ... and for the public ... of course, they're pulled along by the press to get more interested in my work apparently it's not enough" "Romy without happiness" "I want to go back to Germany" "after all those lies" "Romy Schneider confessing" "# que c'est triste Venise # aux temps des amours mortes # que c'est triste Venise # quand on ne s'aime plus # on cherche encore des mots # mais l'ennui les emporte # on voudrais bien pleurer" "# mais on ne le peut plus # que c'est triste Venise # lorsque les barcarolles # ne viennent souligner que des silences creux # et que le coeur se serre # en voyant les gondoles # abriter le bonheur des couples amoureux" "# que c'est triste Venise # aux temps des amours mortes # que c'est triste Venise # quand on ne s'aime plus # les musées, les églises # ouvrent en vain leurs portes" "# Inutile beauté devant nos yeux déçus # que c'est triste Venise # le soir sur la lagune" "# Quand on cherche une main que l'on ne vous tend pas" "# Et que l'on ironise devant le clair de lune" "# Pour tenter d'oublier ce qu'on ne se dit pas" "# Adieu tout les pigeons qui nous ont fait escorte" "# Adieu Pont des Soupirs, adieu rêves perdus" "# C'est trop triste Venise au temps des amours mortes" "# C'est trop triste Venise quand on ne s'aime plus" "# well now I finally found you ... she gave me the chance she could have said at the time "no, that's out of the question"" "she didn't even get a signature on a scrap of paper, let alone a contract if it hadn't worked out, if it had been too mediocre or talentless, she would have taken me out after the first week" "and I took a plane to ..." "it was my first flight, from Cologne to Berlin to those screen tests" "it was at Tempelhof lots of other attractive sexy girls were there well, I too did my ... say my lines and made my screen test then I didn't get any news for a month that is, we didn't get any news" "my mother was waiting for the result too even though she wasn't much in favour of it and then it finally came" "I had been so desperate and I thought, this isn't going to work out anyway if it takes them so long, they'd surely make up their minds faster" "and then it arrived, in September, more than 10 years ago the telegram arrived that they were going to engage me that was my first part, and from then it just went on" "for a first part, fabulous, a big part, a real part" "the tiresome subject" "Sissi and Marischka if you think back of those films today and not really ... from the distance, simply remembering did you fulfill your part as an actress?" "do you think you did it as well as was right for the film?" "Sissi?" "Yes I do absolutely" "I'm sure I did right at the time, it was absolutely right" "I'm allowed to say so, the proof is there for all to see and there wasn't just the success in Germany of those three films, of that series but it went as far as France, it was a big success all over Europe" "and I was most surprised of all" "I remember, when I came over the first time for location shooting" "I flew from Munich to Paris with Käutner and Horst Buchholz, for location shooting for Monpti" "one of the few non-costume films" "I made in Germany and they even told me in Munich-Riem at the airport "you'll see, you'll see"" ""they're showing Sissi, you'll see all the posters"" "and I said, don't talk nonsense not in France, not for the French, that's far too silly for them and then I saw my name in big letters, and Sissi and ... the title in French, no idea, I didn't speak French at the time" "well, Herr Marischka who was a real friend" "had ... known exactly ... what he wanted when he engaged me for "Maiden Years of a Queen", that was the first film my third film, and my first film with Marischka" "he just had the ..." "it was just ... he could have said "I want an experienced actress"" "unconsciously, he picked that young thing, and in the end it turned out he was right we have the proof, all the films I made with him were enormous successes enormous commercial successes" "the way the intellectual public think about it, that's bitter, that's something else the way I think about it now, that's something else too but what I owe him and those films, that I know" "a lot!" "everything!" "that's how it all began" "didn't it?" "but just like I'm telling you now that it was surely right at the time they wanted it, he was satisfied he was my director the people, the public liked it so it was right" "I liked it too" "I was happy, I was the princess not only in front of the camera" "I was the princess all the time" "I was the princess for almost 7 years but one day, I didn't want to be her anymore" "the princess ... real" "I never was but they all spoilt me so that's what I mean the times were delightful, charming, with the Marischkas" "and I wouldn't want to miss that but what I was going to say as much as I know that it was right at the time but I couldn't do it today, I wouldn't be capable of it" "to play Sissi today the flop today would be as big as the success was at the time" "or I would have remained stuck on the same spot and this is the worst that could happen" "acquiring a habit, remaining stuck on a spot laziness" "I could easily say, sure, I'll sit down once more on my successes" "I've acted on the French stage twice, great, wonderful it's been years now" "I couldn't do this anymore" "I couldn't it'll be much more difficult here" "in German language?" "certainly what parts are you thinking of?" "which theaters, which directors might suit you?" "who could help you there?" "in Germany, or Austria" "it's just that ..." "I ... as a beginning and I want to, the next time, I've only acted on the stage twice before and in another language and the next time I want to ... if I get the chance and if I manage to find the play" "the right play, and the theatre in Germany or in ..." "well, in German language then ..." "I want to ..." "I'd rather ..." "I think the best would be a new, a modern play so I can't tell you what play this is most difficult to find neither in London nor in New York nor in Paris there is at the moment ... and I'm being constantly informed" "anything worthwhile that would be right, that would be the kind of play I'd like to do" "in my language" "if I can't find a new and modern play then ... you see, there are so many possibilities, so many parts for me" "I mean, it's almost boring to talk about it" "I've been asked so often, I can only give the same answer" "I've been offered Julia, Ophelia" "Gretchen, Kabale und Liebe, Käthchen von Heilbronn" "but I can't afford to ... [make my debut] with Shakespeare, it's impossible" "I don't have the experience, my fright is great enough already but the desire to act on the stage in Germany or at the Burgtheater is even greater but making it even more difficult with a classic that would be madness" "of course people say I'm a coward if you want it, then take the risk this is the strange thing, I've taken the risk and ..." "I can even say, I've made it, at the time, in Paris and then on tour with The Seagull in another language and now it seems more difficult to do it in my own language and I'm much more afraid" "to act on the stage in my own language than appear once more on the French stage in Paris it's strange, maybe it's because I've been away for so long and I've rarely spoken German in the last 6 years" "and ..." "I mean, you're on the stage" "I couldn't just ..." "the stage-fright I'm having" "I couldn't describe it to you" "I couldn't describe it to you and to reach that moment the stage-fright" "to act it out, no that's too simple, to use the stage-fright one must be very experienced for that one must be very confident for that, and I'm not and I can't be like that yet on the stage, it's impossible" "there might be one play, one part" "if I were going to mention just one then I'd say ..." "Saint Joan, Shaw" "Shaw's Saint Joan" "that, I think ... would perhaps be a good idea that, I think ..." "I'd like to do that very much the power ... an actor has, and this is valid mostly for America, for Hollywood the power" "like Brando, Sinatra like they have, for example right?" "and ... or a Loren or an Elisabeth Taylor for them, Tennessee Williams or another great author they'd say, I've got a play for you" "they're in a position to say so, and then it's probably a bit easier" "but where am I?" "it doesn't make me sad, for ... with this power and this ... star-system" "I always use the same word" "I think it's the most fitting" "so much comes along with it one must be ready to accept so many things and to do them and to ... to live through them in order to get there, and I'm not capable of it absolutely not capable, and I must tell myself" "either this or that either you want to be this star and you'll be visible everywhere and all the time" "Mr. Preminger once told me that I've got the stuff it takes the talent if you want to make the so-called world career, in films, of course then accept every part that comes your way as long as it isn't total crap" "accept every part" "I've listened to him carefully and he's surely right" "almost 100% right and I've tried to, and I couldn't do it" "I know very well, if I'd accepted, at least ... 5, 6 films they had offered me with male leads who were the utmost "box office"" "to use the expression, in America and everywhere then I'd be in another place now" "I've told you, I could have had it much easier" "I've had the chance, maybe I won't have it anymore now because I've flunked it or I haven't what, the portrait?" "he could be my judge" "I know him, he isn't tall at all he's small almost like a dwarf but look how had himself painted he's vain of course, like everybody around here" "I only had a small part, but maybe you've seen it and maybe you've liked it and I know I was good" "and I wished you knew what it was like" "I whished you could have been there, like a little mouse watching it, listening to it from a corner the fright I had, all those questions, always wanting to rehearse everything" "and then that terrific voice" ""shut up!" "do it, just do it!" "go!"" "and then the first screenings (rushes ?" ")" "and he said, no screenings for you, you'll just see just one and I saw it and I didn't recognize myself" "I swear, I didn't recognize myself" "I just said: who?" "... but this can't be true!" "just like this" "?" "but of course not I?" "but that's not me!" "yes yes" "I didn't recognize myself" "the many screenings I've seen again and again" "I couldn't sleep if I didn't see a screening" "never satisfied and it was the first and only time so far" "that I told myself, this isn't true, this is awful, ugly, terrible, but ... that's me?" "all right, he said, I promised you, and now go!" "and he was right, I won't watch another screening" "be paid the work was fabulous one week" "10 days not more" "and he didn't even offer me the part I ended up playing" "I was to play the part taken later by Elsa Martinelli" "I read the script, I was still on tour at the time" "I was still on tour with The Seagull and I got the script from Welles we exchanged telegrams, we talked on the phone, we corresponded and I said, I want to play Leni" "and he'd already offered it to the other one" "one never knows when's he willing to receive you it might be anytime during the day, at night, and if I'm not here at once when he tells me to, then I'll have missed my chance" "then I'd have to wait as long again that's why I let you sleep here" "I'm afraid one gets dependent on one's lawyers after a time the truth is, he likes it probably not the waiting but you like to sleep here, don't you or don't you?" "very well do you want to see his room?" "all right" "I got him to play Hastler" "I did!" "He doesn't want to act anymore, he hates it as much as he hates it when one mentions Citizen Kane or ... earlier films, but mostly Citizen Kane he hates it" "first reading rehearsal three times, four times the same scene" "Leni and the lawyer they didn't have an actor yet, Charles Laughton" "Kortner and Pierre Fresnay those three were candidates" "Charles Laughton died" "Fresnay and Kortner weren't available or Kortner didn't want to, I can't remember" "because otherwise he'd annoy me at work and he's around there all the time anyway so you can't tell me what he did?" "from time to time I watched through the fan aperture he was kneeling on his ... bed and was studying your book the room was dark and the fact that he was reading shows that he obeys orders did he understand what he was reading?" "well, he followed the lines with his finger all I know is, he kept on reading the same page the book must be hard to understand it is it's a scientific work it should at least give him an idea of the complications I have to fight through because of him" "and during that reading rehearsal, Akim Tamiroff and Tony Perkins were sitting at the table too" "I sat here and Welles sat there right next to me and three times repeating the same scene that was a week before I was scheduled to shoot and I always interrupted him and then he said: "go on"" "and I said "you must play him"" ""there is only one Hastler, you must play him"" "and I got him, after the third reading rehearsal he took the part" "and I got 1 $ for it and for another one's idea but that's unimportant but it all came from him during a scene, without rehearsal something happening, all of a sudden" "and he ..." ""just hold it, do it"" ""we go"" "and that was my second dollar" "I remember very well, there was no dialog, just a tiny nothing, a nothing" "it was her, that's true" "Coco Chanel let's not exaggerate, somebody wrote somewhere" "Coco Chanel, besides dressing other women fashion doesn't exist for her, just bad taste and good taste taste or no taste" "that she taught me all about men and so on total rubbish ridiculous they all twist everything round" "distort it but she's a fascinating woman" "she was especially charming to me she received me at the time, and so on but it was much more she also watched the movie" "and I have my own Chanel collection now, so what" "# I was thinking about you" "I feel the need to own a place that belongs to me where I won't be disturbed where I can go to" "well all the women do it, they tried out fringes in front and again and again I've let my hair grow long here down to my eyes it becomes me very well" "I look like anybody else and after 2 hours it makes me nervous and I pull my hair back" "# que c'est triste Venise" "ROMY" "Engl. subtitles: serdar202@kG"