Schindler's List
1993 · Drama · History
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Film / 1957
Mayerling
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with …
The story
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
Cast
Audrey HepburnCountess Marie Vetsera
Mel FerrerCrown Prince Rudolph
Raymond MasseyThe Prime Minister
Basil SydneyThe Emperor Franz Joseph
Diana WynyardThe Empress Elizabeth
Judith EvelynCountess Larische
Isobel ElsomBaroness Vetsera
Nehemiah PersoffPolice Officer
Lorne GreeneEmperor's Aide
David OpatoshuPolice Officer
Ian WolfeLoschek
Monique van VoorenMarinka
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