Rent Sissi: The Young Empress (1956)
3.4 of 5 from 48 ratings
1h 45min
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- Synopsis:
Through her Hungarian teacher the young Empress Sissi (Romy Schneider) is enchanted by Hungary, a country she has never visited, but feels an affinity with. The Council of Ministers wants to punish some Hungarian rebels, but Emperor Franz Joseph (Karlheinz Böhm) gives all the rebels amnesty, including their leader, Count Andrassy (Walther Reyer). The Emperor is influenced by his wife, who says that you cannot win a country with force, only with love. The Hungarians are deeply affected by Sissi's love for their country, and want to crown Franz Joseph and Sissi to King and Queen of Hungary. At a big ball for the Hungarians the Emperor's mother, Archduchess Sophie (Vilma Degischer), insults Count Andrassy, by refusing to greet him. Sissi rescues the situation by asking Count Andrassy to dance with her. Sissi gives birth to a daughter, but her happiness is broken, when Archduchess Sophie decides to nourish the baby herself, and takes it away from its mother. Sissi runs away to her family in Bavaria. Franz Joseph follows her, and takes her on a honeymoon in the Austrian Alps. Sissi's mother, Duchess Ludovika, goes to Vienna to implore her sister, Archduchess Sophie, to give the baby back to Sissi. - Actors:
- Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth, Vilma Degischer, Walther Reyer, Senta Wengraf, Josef Meinrad, Iván Petrovich, Helene Lauterböck, Erich Nikowitz, Richard Eybner, Hans Ziegler, Franz Böheim, Karl Fochler, Max Brebeck, Egon von Jordan, Hilde Wagener, Joseph Egger, Otto Treßler
- Directors:
- Ernst Marischka
- Producers:
- Karl Ehrlich, Ernst Marischka
- Writers:
- Ernst Marischka
- Aka:
- Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin
- Studio:
- umb
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Coronations on Screen, The Last Laugh: The Film That Changed Cinema, Top 10 European Remakes
- Countries:
- Austria
