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Ernst Marischka (writer)
Release Date:
22 December 1955 (West Germany)
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First of a trilogy of movies about the Austrian princess Sissi. full summary | add synopsis
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The best 1950s "Heimat"-kitsch ever!
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Romy Schneider | ... | Princess Elisabeth in Bavaria / Kaiserin Elisabeth / Sissi |
| Karlheinz Böhm | ... | Kaiser Franz Joseph |
| Magda Schneider | ... | Duchess Ludovika in Bayern / Vickie |
| Uta Franz | ... | Princess Helene in Bayern / Nene |
| Gustav Knuth | ... | Duke Max in Bavaria |
| Vilma Degischer | ... | Archduchess Sophie, Franz Josef's mother |
| Josef Meinrad | ... | Gendarmerie-Major Böckl |
| Erich Nikowitz | ... | Archduke Franz Karl |
| Karl Fochler | ... | Graf Grünne |
| Franz Böheim | ... | Johann Petzmacher |
| Peter Weck | ... | Archduke Carl-Ludwig |
| Hilde Wagener | ... | Baronin Wulffen |
| Egon von Jordan | ... | Graf Arco, Prime Minister |
| Richard Eybner | ... | Postmeister von Ischl |
| Otto Treßler | ... | Feldmaerschall Radetzky |
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102 min
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Magda Schneider, playing Sissi's mother Ludovika in all three parts of the Sissi trilogy, is 'Romy Schneider''s (Sissi's) real life mother.
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Spoofed in Lissi und der wilde Kaiser (2007)
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Messiah
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I have seen these films over and over again, probably already more than fifty times. This is the first of a series of three Austrian films, produced in 1954 ("Sissi"), 1955 ("Sissi-die junge Kaiserin") and 1956 ("Sissi-Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin"), directed by Ernst Marishka, and are the epitome of total kitsch and enormously campy. I know that these films are almost unknown outside of continental Europe, but still, they are worth seeing! Played by a very young Romy Schneider - a role that stuck to her, much to her chagrin in later years. The trilogy is about the life of the Austrian Empress and Hungarian Queen Elizabeth (1837-1898) - or "Sissi" - in the first years of her marriage to the Austrian Emperor and 'Apostolic' King of Hungary Franz-Joseph I (1830-1916) - played by Karl-Heinz Böhm. Although the writers did fib frightfully with the historical truths (read for those "Elisabeth", the biography written by Brigitte Hamann), still, the sugar sweetness, the crinolines, the music and the grandeur of the scenes is breathtaking. However, my favourite character in the film is "Sissi's" mother-in-law, archduchess Sophie, played very ably by Vilma Degischer. Sophie is portrayed as a complete bitch of a woman (which in reality she was, after she managed to save the Habsburg monarchy single-handedly from the revolutionary mobs in 1848), something Joan Collins would be able to take lessons from... My most favourite scene is the closing scene of the third movie: "E viva la mama!" - where Sissi is reunited with her daughter on Venice's Piazza San Marco. Watch it, and have lots of handkerchiefs ready for use (if you're a closeted romantic like myself, that is!).