Mayerling
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1957 · 85 min · TV Movie · Romance · War · History · TMDB 6.1/10
Overview
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.
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Cast
- Audrey Hepburn — Countess Marie Vetsera
- Mel Ferrer — Crown Prince Rudolph
- Raymond Massey — The Prime Minister
- Basil Sydney — The Emperor Franz Joseph
- Diana Wynyard — The Empress Elizabeth