Elisabeth of Austria (film)

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Movie
Original title Elisabeth of Austria
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1931
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Adolf Despite
script Georg C. Klaren
Adolf Lantz
Alfred Schirokauer
production Ludwig Gottschalk
music Felix Günther
camera Frederik Fuglsang
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Elisabeth von Österreich is a German biopic from 1931 and is about the Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary .

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The Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary , wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I , with her free-spirited attitudes and longing for her Bavarian roots, finds it difficult to comply with court etiquette and for this reaps the criticism of her mother-in-law Sophie Friederike von Bayern . Franz Josef also reminds Elisabeth of her courtly duties as Empress of Austria. But Elisabeth prefers to receive a circus rider, for example, and stop off at a village restaurant, and is outraged that Franz Josef subjects his soldiers to running the gauntlet .

When Elisabeth fell weak at a reception, it turned out that she was expecting a child, who would later become Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary . Shortly after its birth, Sophie Friederike takes the child with her. Franz Josef tries in vain to appease the angry Elisabeth.

Years later the local economy suffers from Elisabeth's absence, but she has withdrawn to the mountains on medical advice. The Empress, traveling through Europe, meets her cousin, the Bavarian King Ludwig II , in Possenhofen , the place of her childhood . But when Archduke Rudolf is to be married to Stephanie of Belgium against his will , Elisabeth returns to Vienna full of concern for her son but no longer prevent the arranged wedding. However, this does not stop Rudolf from having an affair with Mary Vetsera .

Rudolf plans to divorce Stephanie in order to marry Mary Vetsera. When this meets his father's resistance, Rudolf pretends to his parents that he wants to end the affair with Mary. After the rejection of the petition for divorce by the Pope, Rudolf and Mary commit suicide at Mayerling Castle . After the death of her son, Elisabeth only wears black clothes.

In Geneva, Elisabeth is injured in the heart by the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni with a file. However , she collapses and dies on the ship with which she actually wanted to continue her voyage after her stay at the Hotel Beau-Rivage .

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