Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957)
Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Romy Schneider	...	Empress Elisabeth of Austria / Sissi
	Karlheinz Böhm	...	Emperor Franz Josef of Austria
	Magda Schneider	...	Duchess Ludovika of Bavaria
	Gustav Knuth	...	Duke Max of Bavaria
	Uta Franz	...	Princess Helene / Nene
	Walter Reyer	...	Graf Andrassy (as Walther Reyer)
	Vilma Degischer	...	Archduchess Sophie, Franz Josef's mother
	Josef Meinrad	...	Oberst Böckl
	Senta Wengraf	...	Gräfin Bellegarde
	Erich Nikowitz	...	Erzherzog Franz-Karl
	Hans Ziegler	...	Hofrat Dr. Seeburger
	Sonia Sorel	...	Henriette Mendel (as Sonja Sorel)
	Klaus Knuth	...	Prinz Ludwig
	Albert Rueprecht	...	Erzherzog Ferdinand-Max
	Peter Neusser	...	Graf Batthyani

Storyline

The Austrian empress enjoys traveling trough Hungary, where she ultimately finds the politically priceless affection of local count Andrassy too intimate, but it's only temporary relief from the frustrations of court life in Vienna, where dutiful Franz remains chained to his desk and leaves his chillingly strict mother Sophie interfering, even in the upbringing of their daughter. When Sissi is diagnosed with plausibly fatal tuberculosis and Franz has to allow Sophie to remove their daughter on doctor's warning, Sissi is in danger of losing the will to live while exiled to recovery-inducing climates (Portuguese Madeira and Greek Corfu). Then desperately needed psycho-somatic therapy appears in the form of her indestructibly positive mother Ludovika of Bavaria, who lovingly nurses both her sickness and her taste for life on idyllic walks. Once again Oberst Böckl, the clumsy body-guard whose doting admiration for the empress borders on the improper... Written by KGF Vissers  

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