Klammer’s astonishing achievement made him an international superstar, Schmied adds. They were very positive about our approach to the story.” Recalling his initial pitch to Klammer and his wife, Schmied said, “We will tell the story of Franz Klammer we will shine a light on this character and tell the audience who he is, but we will do all of that in a time span of five days.” And not only did we have love in there, we had this very fragile, very romantic new love story of two young people almost from opposite worlds: he’s a boy from the mountains in Carinthia and she’s the daughter of a rich industrialist in Vienna.” “If you do a big epic sports bio, you have to have love in there somewhere. “We discovered this very romantic, great love story,” says Schmied.
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The story also revolves around Klammer’s burgeoning romance with girlfriend (and later wife) Eva and his professional rivalry with Swiss downhill legend Bernhard Russi. The Schmieds instead focused on Klammer’s biggest success – his Olympic victory that won him gold in the downhill and the days leading up to the event. “There are not as many good biopics as one would imagine because of the formula.” “We’re both not huge fans of generic biopics because they’re almost like a passion play – station after station after station,” Schmied adds. Schmied and his wife and writing partner Elisabeth Schmied met with Klammer and won him over with their take on his story. “I grew up with Franz Klammer – everybody in Austria did,” Schmied says, stressing Klammer’s enduring popularity in the country.
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