The read
It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.9/10
7 audience votes
Key crew
- Anatole LitvakDirector
- Kirk BrowningDirector
- George BassmanOriginal Music Composer
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