Romy Schneider puts Paris at her feet
In 1980, two years before her death, the great French-German actress Romy Schneider played the main role in Francis Girod’s film The banker. In this film she plays Emma Eckhert, a young Jewish, homosexual woman who becomes a powerful banker and editor of financial publications in the 1920s and 1930s. A place of choice in a very masculine and very closed environment, and which will disturb the men on site…
Coming from a modest background, young Emma Eckhert (Romy Schneider) begins her career as an employee in the family millinery. In 1921 she had her first problems with the law and at the same time scandalized those around her with her homosexuality. Her marriage to Moïse Nathanson (Jacques Fabbri), a family friend who is older than her, does not prevent her from continuing her relationship with Camille Sowcroft (Noëlle Châtelet), the daughter of a jeweler, who helps her get rich by advancing him money Emma immediately gets to work making clever stock trades. By 1929 Emma had become one of the most popular bankers in Paris. But her resounding success attracts, among other things, the antipathy of the powerful banker Horace Vannister (Jean-Louis Trintignant)…
The true story of the “banker of the roaring twenties”
Romy Schneider performs in front of Francis Girod’s camera, based on a script by Georges Conchon The banker the portrait of an intelligent, liberated woman, a class deserter and ahead of her time. This character, Emma Eckhert, is directly based on a real woman: Marthe Hanau.
Marthe Hanau was a French entrepreneur, whose notoriety comes from the fact that she was one of the rare women to develop businesses in the financial sector in the 1920s. Banker and financial press editor, created elaborate financial arrangements to conduct his business, some of which bordered on fraud and breach of trust. A target of the reactionary press, targeted by anti-Semitic comments, his success and personality are disturbing and creates as many friendships as enmities in the media and political spheres.
The banker Thus, under other names, he tells the story of Marthe Hanau, although he agrees some freedoms. In particular on the end of Emma Eckhert’s character, different from that of Marthe Hanau who, in reality, committed suicide in 1935, while she was serving a prison sentence in Fresnes prison. A freedom taken from The banker which, beyond the portrait of a woman drawn by Romy Schneider, tell the particularities of the period between the two wars, both on a financial, media and human level.
Source: Cine Serie
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