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6.1/10
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Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
1.6K
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- Director
- Writers
- Claude Anet(novel "Mayerling" and historical documentation, 1930)
- Michel Arnold(novel "The Archduke")
- Denis Cannan(additional dialogue)
- Stars
- Director
- Writers
- Claude Anet(novel "Mayerling" and historical documentation, 1930)
- Michel Arnold(novel "The Archduke")
- Denis Cannan(additional dialogue)
- Stars
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Geneviève Page
- Countess Larish
- (as Genevieve Page)
Andréa Parisy
- Princess Stephanie
- (as Andrea Parisy)
Mony Dalmès
- Baroness Vetsera
- (as Mony Dalmes)
Véronique Vendell
- Lisl Stockau
- (as Veronique Vendell)
- Director
- Writers
- Claude Anet(novel "Mayerling" and historical documentation, 1930)
- Michel Arnold(novel "The Archduke")
- Denis Cannan(additional dialogue)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaAlthough she plays his mother, Ava Gardner is only nine years older than Omar Sharif.
- GoofsWhen the Empress Elizabeth asks Maria Vetsera her age, she answers "20". She was in fact only 17 when she died a short time later.
- Quotes
Archduke Rudolf: Last night at the Court ball, a dark Polish woman, the only one there of interest to me, I asked you to present her. Later I found out that I had already been to bed with her.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits appear against of a colour-changing background of glass frosted with ice flowers. At times, the ice is cleared, as though by a warm breath, and reveals the double-headed eagle of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
- Alternate versionsThere are 2 versions of this movie released on 2 DVD by Studio Canal France : The International Version and the French Version. Many scenes when Omar Shariff and Catherine Deneuve are together have been filmed twice, once in English and once in French. The editing and the running time is different.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Vienna: The Years Remembered (1968)
- SoundtracksMorgenblaetter (Morning Paper)
Composed by Johann Strauss
Featured review
NON-FICTION OR OTHERWISE, A LOVELY FILM!
The dashing Omar Sharif was born to be a crown-prince, or at least look the part to perfection (is he of royal Egyptian blood?), while Catherine Deneuve takes your breath away in every scene she's in, most notably as they watch "Giselle" at the theater. An Oedipus complex is hinted at here, and I suppose not all sons (not even only sons!) kiss their mothers on the lips (or it could be an Austrian thing, who knows?). But given his lifestyle of high living, promiscuity and dalliances with radical politics, coupled by an addiction to morphine and the off-chance of insanity in the blood, I don't think the end was as bittersweet and romantic as the movie portrayed it to be. No doubt the prince was a depressed, politically-impotent man who saw no promise in a future which included a loveless marriage, a domineering father and a mother who was never there--no big deal to most, but this was an only child used to getting his way most of the time. I'm sure Maria Vetsera, practically a child in love for the first time, was only too flattered to have been chosen by the prince to die with him. All in the name of love, of course.
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- Budget
- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 20 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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