It’s every tense person that has like a smile in their eyes. You know, like where people will say, ‘What did you do?’ or ‘Why are you doing this?’ and I know you will think it’s super kitsch, or whatever, but I think it’s the audience. “Personally, I keep bumping and I keep crashing. Krieps herself is not immune to the sense of “crashing”, living a very visible life in Europe. They crashed against this and something inside of them crumbled,” says the actress. “So, all these women seem to have bumped into some sort of wall at some point. Ironically, both Schneider and Krieps have portrayed Sisi, Krieps most recently in her award-winning role in last year’s Corsage. “I was fascinated how Ingeborg had apparently bumped into the same walls as so many other creative people, from Whitney Houston to Janis Joplin, and then of course you have actress Romy Schneider and even Empress Sisi,” she says of the Austrian/Hungarian empress who apparently used cocaine although she met her death after being assassinated. “That’s probably the reason I made this movie, because I was shocked to see that one of the greatest thinkers of our time, apparently also suffered the same thing as more recent generations,” she says of the poet and intellectual who died in Rome in 1973, aged 47, after falling asleep with her cigarette still burning.įriends also reported that Bachmann was popping up to 100 pills a day – mainly barbiturates – as well as being considered an alcoholic. Krieps, 40, likewise responded to those themes. Vicky Krieps, ©Ferda Demir (Getty) for ZFF I had to have Vicky in the role – and since I met her before in Luxembourg, we already knew each other – and she immediately agreed to play Ingeborg which meant Vicky was in my mind from the start of my writing,” says von Trotta when we chat at the 19th Zurich Film Festival. Setting out to write the script, she promptly reached out to Krieps. “After I saw Vicky in this film, I was totally in her spell,” says von Trotta whose films include Hannah Arendt, Rosenstrasse and her 1975 debut The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, co-directed with Volker Schlondorff.Īs von Trotta began writing her latest drama, Ingeborg Bachmann: Journey into the Desert – a biopic about the celebrated Austrian poet who died tragically in a fire – she couldn’t imagine anybody but Krieps in the titular role. Renowned German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta was enamoured with Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps from the moment she saw her co-starring with Daniel Day Lewis in Phantom Thread six years ago.
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