66-582: Claude Sautet (23 February 1924 – 22 July 2000) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was a chronicler of post-war French society. He made a total of five films with his favorite actress Romy Schneider . 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. His first movie, Hello Smile! (originally Bonjour Sourire )
132-592: A Macbeth in Spoleto in 1958 and a famous black-and-white Il trovatore with scenery and costumes by Filippo Sanjust at the Royal Opera House in 1964. In 1966 Visconti's luscious Falstaff for the Vienna State Opera conducted by Leonard Bernstein was critically acclaimed. On the other hand, his austere 1969 Simon Boccanegra with the singers clothed in geometrical costumes provoked controversy. In
198-538: A Milanese noble family with close ties to the artistic world, Visconti began his career in France as an assistant director to Jean Renoir . His 1943 directorial debut, Ossessione , was condemned by the Fascist regime for its unvarnished depictions of working-class characters, but is today renowned as a pioneering work of Italian cinema, generally regarded as the first neorealist film. During World War II , he served in
264-723: A Protestant . My ideas may be unorthodox, but I am still a Catholic." While his first 3-year-relationship from 1936, with the photographer Horst P. Horst , remained discreet because of the prejudices of the time, he later showed up openly in the company of his lovers, among them the director and producer Franco Zeffirelli and the actor Udo Kier . His last lover was the Austrian actor Helmut Berger , who played Martin in Visconti's film The Damned . Berger also appeared in Visconti's Ludwig in 1973 and Conversation Piece in 1974, along with Burt Lancaster . Zeffirelli also worked as part of
330-723: A 1981 episode in Schneider's life in the French town of Quiberon . On 23 September 2020, Google celebrated her 82nd birthday with a Google Doodle in Germany, France, Austria, Iceland and Ukraine. The culture broadcaster Arte dedicated a documentary to Romy Schneider and Alain Delon : Romy and Alain – The Eternal Betrothed , 2022. Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo ( Italian: [luˈkiːno viˈskonti di moˈdroːne] ; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976)
396-407: A 2020 tribute article to Michel Piccoli thought it was "arguably the best" of the "five very well-regarded movies" on which the actor and director collaborated. Sautet achieved even further critical success with Mado (1976). His film A Simple Story ( Une Histoire simple , 1978) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . The film featured Schneider again, this time as
462-642: A close association with La Scala in his hometown of Milan. Visconti received several notable accolades, including both the Palme d'Or (for The Leopard ) and the Golden Lion (for 1965’s Sandra ), the latter out of five total nominations. He won the David di Donatello for Best Director twice and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Director four times, and was both an Oscar and BAFTA Award nominee. Six of Visconti’s films are on
528-692: A dissatisfied working woman in her 40s. She won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance. In the 1980s, he made only two films Waiter! ( Garçon! , 1983), a drama starring Yves Montand as a middle-aged waiter, and the comedy A Few Days with Me ( Quelques Jours Avec Moi , 1988). Claude Sautet won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the César Award for Best Director for A Heart in Winter ( Un cœur en hiver , 1992) and received
594-462: A dying woman whose last days are watched on national television via a camera implanted in the brain of a journalist ( Harvey Keitel ). It is based on David G. Compton 's novel. Schneider's last film was La Passante du Sans-Souci ( The Passerby , 1982). Following the end of her relationship with Delon, Schneider married German director and actor Harry Meyen in July 1966; they divorced in 1975. They had
660-697: A higher artistic level, she starred with Lilli Palmer in the 1958 remake of Mädchen in Uniform . Schneider starred in Christine (1958), a remake of Max Ophüls 's 1933 film Liebelei (in which her mother Magda Schneider had played the same role). It was during the filming of Christine that Schneider fell in love with French actor Alain Delon who co-starred in the film. She left West Germany to join him in Paris, and they announced their engagement in 1959. Schneider decided to live and to work in France, slowly gaining
726-818: A lot.) After seeing her performance in Ludwig , U.S. filmmaker Michael Cimino wanted Schneider to star as the female lead in his political love story Perfect Strangers . She would have starred alongside Roy Scheider and Oskar Werner . The film, however, was ultimately cancelled after several weeks of pre-production shooting because of "political machinations". She also acted in The Infernal Trio (1974) with Michel Piccoli , and in Garde à vue (1981) with Michel Serrault and Lino Ventura . An unpleasant incident occurred during this period with leading German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder , who wanted to cast her as
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#1732913689872792-739: A more mature and realistic Elisabeth of Austria in Ludwig (1973), Visconti's film about the life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria ."Sissi sticks to me just like oatmeal", Schneider once said. Paris Match wrote in 1971: "Forty years after Greta and Marlene , fifteen years after Marilyn , the screen again has a great star." Other successes from this period included Le Train (1973), Claude Chabrol 's thriller Innocents with Dirty Hands ( Les innocents aux mains sales , 1975) with Rod Steiger , and Le vieux fusil (1975). The gritty That Most Important Thing: Love ( L'important c'est d'aimer , 1974) garnered her first César Award (France's equivalent of
858-564: A nice movie, my first thoughts are about the idea: I definitely have to become an actress. Yes! I have to!" On 12 July 1953, she left the residential school Goldenstein with the degree of Mittlere Reife . After the summer holidays, she moved to Cologne to join her mother who lived there with the restaurateur and entrepreneur Hans Herbert Blatzheim [ de ] . After her parents' divorce in 1945, Magda took charge of Schneider and her brother Wolf-Dieter, eventually supervising her career, often appearing alongside her daughter. Her career
924-482: A nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . The film, one of Visconti's better-known works, concerns a German industrialist's family which begins to disintegrate during the Nazi consolidation of power in the 1930s. The film opened to widespread critical acclaim, but also faced controversy from rating boards for its sexual content, including depictions of homosexuality , pedophilia , rape , and incest . In
990-576: A private secondary school of the Augustinian Canonesses of the Congregation of Notre Dame in Elsbethen near Salzburg. During her schooldays, she discovered her passion for acting which is why she was often on stage at theatrical performances at the residential school. In her diary entry of 10 June 1952, she wrote: "If it were up to me, I would immediately become an actress. ... Every time I see
1056-584: A short tour of the United States, where he visited Hollywood, he returned to Italy to be Renoir's assistant again, this time for Tosca (1941), a production that was interrupted and later completed by German director Karl Koch . Together with fellow members of the Milanese film journal Cinema - Gianni Puccini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Giuseppe De Santis - Visconti wrote the screenplay for his first film as director: Ossessione ( Obsession , 1943), one of
1122-507: A son, David Christopher (1966–1981). David died in July 1981, at the age of 14, after attempting to climb the spiked fence at his stepfather's parents' home and puncturing his femoral artery in the process. Schneider had affairs with Willy Brandt , Sammy Davis Jr. (1964), Luis Miguel Dominguín (1970s), Louis Malle (1963), Oswalt Kolle (1964), Giovanni Volpi (1964–1970s), and actor Bruno Ganz (early 1970s). She also had an affair with Jorge Guinle (1965), who said that Schneider
1188-534: Is like Lang without expressionism and Eisenstein without formalism ". He describes the film as the "most Viscontian" of all Visconti's films. Visconti returned to neorealism once more with Rocco e i suoi fratelli ( Rocco and His Brothers , 1960), the story of Southern Italians who migrate to Milan hoping to find financial stability. In 1961, he was a member of the jury at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival . Turning away from neo-realism, Visconti created an unmistakable visual language in his films from
1254-595: The Sissi trilogy in the mid-1950s. She later reprised the role in a more mature version in Luchino Visconti 's Ludwig (1973). She began her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. Schneider moved to France, where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era. Coco Chanel called Romy “the ultimate incarnation of
1320-740: The Prix Romy Schneider . It is one of the most prestigious awards for upcoming actresses in the French film industry , and is given by a jury each year in Paris in conjunction with the Prix Patrick Dewaere (formerly the Prix Jean Gabin ). In 1990, the Austrian newspaper Kurier created the Romy TV Award in honour of Schneider. In 2003, she was voted 78th on the list of the greatest Germans in
1386-629: The Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Beginning when he directed a production at Milan's Teatro alla Scala of La vestale in December 1954, his career included a famous revival of La traviata at La Scala in 1955 with Maria Callas and an equally famous Anna Bolena (also at La Scala) in 1957 with Callas. A significant 1958 Royal Opera House (London) production of Verdi's five-act Italian version of Don Carlos (with Jon Vickers ) followed, along with
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#17329136898721452-459: The aftermath of World War II he became one of the founding fathers of the Italian neorealistic film movement that focused on challenging economic and conditions, and how it affected the psyche of the underclass. Visconti himself came from nobility, was highly educated and was never in financial lack. His films reflected that tension. In fact, Visconti said he felt he came from a world long ago, that of
1518-534: The anti-fascist resistance , and afterwards was active in left-wing politics. Visconti’s best-known films include Senso (1954) and The Leopard (1963), which are historical melodramas adapted from Italian literary classics, the gritty drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), and his "German Trilogy" – The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973). He was also an accomplished director of operas and stage plays, both in Italy and abroad, and held
1584-465: The 1960s onwards. Thanks to his unique blend of aristocratic and upper-class origins, political communist convictions and brilliant social analysis, he created masterpieces of film history in The Leopard (1963), The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1972). Throughout the 1960s, Visconti's films became more personal. Il Gattopardo ( The Leopard , 1963) is based on Lampedusa 's novel of
1650-522: The 1970s, most notably with director Claude Sautet on five films. Their first collaboration, The Things of Life ( Les choses de la vie , 1970) featuring Michel Piccoli , made Schneider an icon in France. The three collaborated again for the noir thriller Max et les ferrailleurs ( Max and the Junkmen , 1971), and she appeared with Yves Montand in Sautet's César et Rosalie (1972). Schneider portrayed
1716-550: The César once more for Nelly and Mr. Arnaud ( Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud , 1995). Both films starred Emmanuelle Béart . Apart from his own directing, he also wrote screenplays for other directors. Claude Sautet died of liver cancer in Paris in July 22, 2000 and was buried there in the Montparnasse Cemetery . In 2001, from May 5th to July 14th, Canal Plus aired eleven of its feature films in their final versions, following
1782-676: The German TV program Unsere Besten (the German version of 100 Greatest Britons )—the second-highest ranked actress ( Marlene Dietrich was 50th) on that list. Until 2002, the Austrian Federal Railways InterCity service IC 535 from Wien Südbahnhof to Graz was named "Romy Schneider". Pedro Almodóvar 's film All About My Mother (1999) is partially dedicated to her. A movie about Schneider's life, titled Eine Frau wie Romy/Une femme comme Romy ( A Woman Like Romy ),
1848-664: The Junkmen ( Max et les Ferrailleurs , 1971) Schneider played a prostitute, while in César and Rosalie ( César et Rosalie , 1972) she portrayed a married woman who copes with the reappearance of an old flame. Vincent, François, Paul and the Others ( 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. As well as Piccoli, it featured Yves Montand , Gérard Depardieu , and Stéphane Audran . Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian in
1914-592: The Oscar), a feat she repeated five years later, in her last collaboration with Sautet, for A Simple Story ( Une histoire simple , 1978). On 30 October 1974, Schneider was the second guest on Dietmar Schönherr 's talk show Je später der Abend [ de ] ( The Later the Evening ) when she, after a rather terse interview, remarked passionately to the last guest, bank robber and author Burkhard Driest : "Sie gefallen mir. Sie gefallen mir sehr." (I like you. I like you
1980-713: The Théâtre Moderne. A brief stint in Hollywood included a starring role in Good Neighbor Sam (1964), a comedy with Jack Lemmon , and What's New Pussycat? (1965), in which Schneider co-starred with Peter O'Toole , Peter Sellers , and Woody Allen . Schneider and Delon separated in December 1963, although they remained close lifelong friends. They continued to work together in such films as La Piscine ( The Swimming Pool , 1968) and The Assassination of Trotsky (1972). Schneider continued to work in France during
2046-501: The United States, the film was given an X rating . The avant-garde filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder praised it as his favourite movie. Its decadence and lavish beauty are characteristic of Visconti's aesthetic − very visible also in the movie Death in Venice (1971) that adapted the daring novella Death in Venice published in 1912 by Thomas Mann . Visconti's final film was The Innocent (1976), in which he returns to his recurring interest in infidelity and betrayal. Visconti
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2112-622: The age of sixty-nine on 17 March 1976. The church funeral service for Visconti took place on March 19, 1976 in Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio in Rome. In addition to the Visconti family, the Italian President Giovanni Leone and the actors Burt Lancaster , Claudia Cardinale , Laura Antonelli , Vittorio Gassman and Helmut Berger were present. There is a museum dedicated to
2178-581: The children participated in its performances. The family also had their own box in the La Scala opera house. Luchino studied cello with the Italian cellist and composer Lorenzo de Paolis (1890–1965) and met the composer Giacomo Puccini , the conductor Arturo Toscanini and the writer Gabriele D'Annunzio . Visconti found literature by reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time , later a lifelong film project that he never realized. Before he started his film career, he
2244-399: The country estate Mariengrund . In her first year, Schneider was cared for by a governess. Her parents were very rarely present due to their acting engagements. In 1943, they separated and divorced in 1945. In September 1944, Schneider was enrolled in the elementary school of Schönau and from July 1949 she attended the girls' boarding school at Castle Goldenstein [ de ] ,
2310-501: The crew in production design, as assistant director, and other roles in a number of Visconti's films, operas, and theatrical productions. According to Visconti's autobiography, he and Umberto II of Italy had a romantic relationship during their youth in the 1920s. Visconti was hostile to the Protests of 1968 and didn't even try to follow the movement and adopt the airs of youth, like Alberto Moravia or Pier Paolo Pasolini did (although
2376-446: The discrepancies between generations and their world views, as a task of realism in art. When he was accused of decadence, he recalled Thomas Mann and his way of creating art. In later years, Visconti made no secret of his homosexuality , though he remained a devout Catholic throughout his life. "I am a Catholic," he commented in 1971. "I was born a Catholic, I was baptized a Catholic. I cannot change what I am, I cannot easily become
2442-592: The early 1920s, his mother moved with her younger children, including him, to her own house in Milan, as well as to her summer residence, Villa Erba in Cernobbio on Lake Como. The father, as chamberlain of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy , also owned a villa in Rome that Luchino later inherited and lived in for decades. In his early years, he was exposed to art, music and theatre: The Palazzo Visconti di Modrone in Milan, where he grew up, had its own small private theatre and
2508-419: The first examples of neorealist (involving real locations and regular people) movies and an unofficial adaptation of the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice . The premiere of Ossessione took place at a film festival hosted by Vittorio Mussolini (son of Benito ), who was the national arbiter for cinema and other arts, and the editor of Cinema . Though prior to the premiere their working relationship
2574-690: The ideal woman.” Bertrand Tavernier remarked: “Sautet is talking about Mozart with regard to Romy. Me, I want to talk of Verdi, Mahler…” Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Vienna , six months after the Anschluss of Austria into the German Reich . She was born to a theatrical couple; her father Wolf Albach-Retty was a leading actor of Vienna's Volkstheater , and her mother Magda Schneider starred in scores of lavish musical films in Germany. Her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty had been one of
2640-669: The interest of film directors such as Orson Welles for The Trial (1962), based on Franz Kafka 's The Trial . She was also introduced to Luchino Visconti . Under Visconti's direction, she gave performances in the Théâtre Moderne as Annabella (and Delon as Giovanni) in John Ford 's stage play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1961), and in the film Boccaccio '70 (segment: "The Job"). In 1962, Schneider played Anna in Sacha Pitoëff 's production of Chekhov 's play The Seagull , also at
2706-515: The king's flight in the autumn of 1943 and the intervention of the Germans, he went into hiding in the mountains, at Settefrati , under the nom de guerre Alfredo Guidi . Visconti helped English and American prisoners of war hide after they had escaped, and also gave shelter to partisans in his house in Rome, with the help of actress María Denis . After the German occupation of Rome in April 1944, Visconti
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2772-399: The latter was certainly not sympathetic towards the protestors). In his view, the protesters sought change for the sake of destruction without building something new. Disgusted, he looked at the young people in their enthusiasm, outbursts of anger, parties and tumults, their abstract speeches, their juggling with Mao , Marx , and Che Guevara . They saw him as a symbol of reaction, a member of
2838-500: The lead in his film The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). Negotiations broke down when he called Schneider a "dumb cow", to which she responded by declaring she would never work with such a "beast". Fassbinder cast Hanna Schygulla instead, reviving his professional association with an actress to whom he had likewise been offensive. Schneider starred in Bertrand Tavernier 's Death Watch ( La mort en direct , 1980), playing
2904-546: The list of 100 Italian films to be saved . Many of his works are regarded as highly-influential to future generations of filmmakers, including Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese . Luchino Visconti was born into a prominent noble family in Milan , one of seven children of Giuseppe Visconti di Modrone , Duke of Grazzano Visconti and Count of Lonate Pozzolo , and his wife Carla ( née Erba, heiress to Erba Pharmaceuticals ). He
2970-454: The mandarin caste. The emerging radical-left terrorism in Italy frightened him and made him fear the rise of a new fascism . Visconti has a grandnephew , Uberto Pasolini , who is also a filmmaker. (Uberto, however, has no known relation to the aforementioned director, Pier Paolo Pasolini.) Visconti smoked 120 cigarettes a day. He suffered a serious stroke in 1972, but continued to smoke heavily. He died in Rome of another stroke at
3036-611: The most popular actresses of the Austrian theater. Rosemarie, known to family as Romy from her earliest years, was educated at private schools in Berchtesgaden and Salzburg. Interested in painting, she planned to continue her education at art school, but she was also interested in school plays, not only acting in them but directing as well. Four weeks after her birth, her parents took her to Schönau am Königssee in Germany where she and later her brother Wolf-Dieter (born 1941) grew up with their grandparents Franz Xaver and Maria Schneider on
3102-505: The novel I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga . Visconti continued working throughout the 1950s, but he veered away from the neorealist path with his 1954 film, Senso , shot in colour. Based on the novella by Camillo Boito , it is set in Austrian-occupied Venice in 1866. In this film, Visconti combines realism and romanticism as a way to break away from neorealism. However, as one biographer notes, "Visconti without neorealism
3168-424: The previous (19th) century. In the film The Leopard , he addressed the decline of an old social order and the rise of “modern times”. He did not see his opulent flashbacks as an escape into imaginary, lost worlds, but rather as the deciphering of signs. He wanted to put his finger on the signs of profound historical changes which would only become visible later. He searched world literature for relevant works to show
3234-480: The romantic biopic Sissi (1955) and its two sequels, Sissi – The Young Empress (1956) and Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (1957), all with Karlheinz Böhm , who became a close friend. Less stereotypical films during this busy period include The Girl and the Legend (1957), working with a young Horst Buchholz , and Monpti (1957), directed by Helmut Käutner , again with Buchholz. In an attempt to work on
3300-509: The same name about the decline of the Sicilian aristocracy at the time of the Risorgimento , where the change of times becomes visible in two of the main characters: Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina ( Burt Lancaster ) appears patriarchal but humane, while Don Calogero Sedara ( Paolo Stoppa ), a shrewd entrepreneur and social climber from the village, appears submissive, but foxy and brutal at
3366-549: The same time, a mafia-like type of the future. The tension arises from the marriage of their relatives of the next generation, combined with the fall of the old Bourbon rule and the rise of a united Italy. This film was distributed in America and Britain by Twentieth-Century Fox , which deleted important scenes. Visconti repudiated the Twentieth-Century Fox version. It was not until The Damned (1969) that Visconti received
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#17329136898723432-600: The solemn parades of the National Fascist Party as marching in columns in boots and uniform, he had now come to hate the Mussolini regime. He accused the bourgeoisie of treason to tyranny, and following the Badoglio Proclamation , began working with the Italian resistance . He supported the communists' partisan fight at the risk of death; his villa in Rome became a meeting place for oppositional artists. After
3498-399: The time of her death and that she was convinced it was a natural death. Her tombstone at Boissy-sans-Avoir , Yvelines , bears her birth name, Rosemarie Albach. Funeral guests were Jean-Claude Brialy , Michel Piccoli , Jean-Loup Dabadie and Jean Rochefort . Alain Delon arranged for her son David to be buried in the same grave. The French journalist Eugène Moineau initiated in 1984
3564-444: The work done with Béatrice Valbin. Director Writer Other Romy Schneider Rosemarie Magdalena Albach (23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982), known professionally as Romy Schneider ( German: [ˈʁoːmi ˈʃnaɪdɐ, ˈʁɔmi -] ), was a German-French actress. She is regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time and became a cult figure due to her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in
3630-457: Was also a celebrated theatre and opera director. During the years 1946 to 1960, he directed many performances of the Rina Morelli - Paolo Stoppa Company with actor Vittorio Gassman as well as many celebrated productions of operas. Visconti's love of opera is evident in the 1954 Senso , where the beginning of the film shows scenes from the fourth act of Il trovatore , which were filmed at
3696-723: Was also overseen by her stepfather Blatzheim who, Schneider indicated, had an unhealthy interest in her. Schneider's first film, made when she was 15, was When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953), credited as Romy Schneider-Albach. In 1954, Schneider, for the first time, portrayed a royal, playing a young Queen Victoria in the Austrian film Mädchenjahre einer Königin (known in the U.S. as The Story of Vickie and in Britain as Victoria in Dover ). Schneider's breakthrough came with her portrayal of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in
3762-417: Was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism , but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty, decadence, death, and European history, especially the decay of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Critic Jonathan Jones wrote that “no one did as much to shape Italian cinema as Luchino Visconti.” Born into
3828-427: Was arrested and detained by the anti-partisan Pietro Koch and sentenced to execution by firing squad. He was only saved from death by Denis' last-minute intervention. After the war, Visconti testified against Koch, who was himself convicted and executed. He began his film-making career as a set dresser on Jean Renoir 's Partie de campagne (1936) through the intercession of their common friend Coco Chanel . After
3894-558: Was deeply in love with her close friend Simone Signoret . Schneider was found dead in her Paris apartment on 29 May 1982. The examining magistrate Laurent Davenas [ fr ] declared that she had died from cardiac arrest . Claude Pétin said that Schneider's cardiac arrest was due to a weakened heart caused by a kidney operation she had had months before. Schneider began drinking alcohol excessively after her son's death. However, Schneider's friend and sister-in-law of Laurent Pétin, Claude Pétin, said that she no longer drank at
3960-664: Was formally known as Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone, and his family is a branch of the Visconti of Milan where they ruled from 1277 to 1447, initially as lords, then as dukes. He grew up in the Milanese family seat, the Palazzo Visconti di Modrone in Via Cerva, as well as on the family estate, Grazzano Visconti Castle near Vigolzone . He was baptized and raised in the Roman Catholic church. After his parents separated in
4026-426: Was illegal. In 1975, Schneider married Daniel Biasini [ fr ] , her private secretary; they divorced in 1981. Their daughter, Sarah , is an actress. Schneider’s last romantic partner was film producer Laurent Pétin [ fr ] (born 1949). In her 2018 biography Romy Schneider intime , Alice Schwarzer stated that Schneider confided to her that she had sexual relationships with women and
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#17329136898724092-443: Was passionate about training racehorses in his own stable. He was engaged to Princess Irma of Windisch-Graetz , but this raised concerns with her father, Prince Hugo, and Visconti broke the engagement off in 1935. During World War II , Visconti joined the Italian Communist Party , which he considered to be the only effective opponent of Italian Fascism . While he had, in his early years, been impressed by such aesthetic aspects of
4158-473: Was planned by Warner Bros. for 2009; Schneider's role was going to be played by Yvonne Catterfeld . The project was cancelled in July 2009. A musical about Schneider, Romy – Die Welt aus Gold ( Romy – The Golden World ) was premiered in 2009 at the Theater Heilbronn . In November 2009, the ARD broadcast the feature film Romy [ de ] with Jessica Schwarz in the title role. The film 3 Days in Quiberon (2018) by Emily Atef describes
4224-413: Was positive, upon viewing the film Vittorio stormed out of the theatre exclaiming: "This is not Italy!", according to the account of Cinema group contributor Aldo Scagnetti. The film was subsequently suppressed by the fascist regime, to the extent that the first public showing of the film in Rome only occurred in May 1945. In 1948, he wrote and directed La terra trema ( The Earth Trembles ), based on
4290-408: Was released in 1956. He earned international attention with The Things of Life ( Les choses de la vie , 1970), which he wrote and directed, like the rest of his later films. Featuring Michel Piccoli in the male lead, it was shown in competition at the 1970 Cannes Festival. The film also revived the career of Romy Schneider ; she acted in several of Sautet's later films. In his next film Max and
4356-523: Was the great love of his life. She had a brief affair with Jean-Louis Trintignant while filming The Train (1973). She also had in 1974 a brief affair with Jacques Dutronc while filming That Most Important Thing: Love . Schneider appeared as one of 28 women under the banner " We've had abortions! " (German: Wir haben abgetrieben! ) on the cover page of the West German magazine Stern on 6 June 1971. In that issue, 374 women publicly stated that they had had pregnancies terminated, which at that time
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