Director:

Ernst Marischka
 

Writer:

Ernst Marischka
 

Release Date:

19 December 1957 (West Germany)

Genre:

Drama / History / Romance

The Austrian empress enjoys traveling trough Hungary, where she ultimately finds the politically priceless affection of local count Andrassy too intimate, but it's only temporary relief from the frustrations of court life in Vienna, where dutiful Franz remains chained to his desk and leaves his chillingly strict mother Sophie interfering, even in the upbringing of their daughter. When Sissi is diagnosed with plausibly fatal tuberculosis and Franz has to allow Sophie to remove their daughter on doctor's warning, Sissi is in danger of losing the will to live while exiled to recovery-inducing climates (Portuguese Madeira and Greek Corfu). Then desperately needed psycho-somatic therapy appears in the form of her indestructibly positive mother Ludovika of Bavaria, who lovingly nurses both her sickness and her taste for life on idyllic walks. Once again Oberst Böckl, the clumsy body-guard whose doting admiration for the empress borders on the improper, provides a comical note, as each time Sissi moves he struggles with the local language and falls in love with his private teacher. Finally she is well enough to rejoin her husband on an official visit to Venice, part of Austrias remaining possessions in Northern Italy, where nationalism prepares the Habsburg sovereigns a hostile welcome which may even start a violent uprising, but the emotional Italians melt for the ostentatiously loving reunion of mother and daughter on St. Mark's square

 

 

1 nomination 

 

 

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(in credits order) (verified as complete)

Romy Schneider	...	Empress Elisabeth of Austria called Sissi
Karlheinz Böhm	...	Emperor Franz Josef of Austria
Magda Schneider	...	Duchess Ludovika of Bavaria
Gustav Knuth	...	Duke Max of Bavaria
Uta Franz	...	Princess Helene called Nene
Walter Reyer	...	Graf Andrassy (as Walther Reyer)
Vilma Degischer	...	Archduchess Sophie, Franz Josef's mother
Josef Meinrad	...	Oberst Böckl
Senta Wengraf	...	Gräfin Bellegarde
Erich Nikowitz	...	Erzherzog Franz-Karl
Hans Ziegler	...	Hofrat Dr. Seeburger
Sonia Sorel	...	Henriette Mendel (as Sonja Sorel)
Klaus Knuth	...	Prinz Ludwig
Albert Rueprecht	...	Erzherzog Ferdinand-Max
Peter Neusser	...	Graf Batthyani
Karl Fochler	...	Graf Grünne
Susanne von Almassy		(as Suzanne Almassy)
Franca Parisi	...	Helena
Ingrid Oberleitner
Egon von Jordan	...	Carlo (as Egon v. Jordan)
Dorothea Neff
Erik Frey
Inge Holzleitner
Brigitte Treichler
Hans Unterkircher
Guido Wieland
Karl Ehmann
Josef Menschik
Frank Steinberg
Chariklia Baxevanos
Johannes Ferigo	...	Graf Czaky
Ida Gabor	...	Margit
Dolores Hubert	...	Kindermädchen
Helga Jesch	...	Kind
Helene Lauterböck
Silvia Leier	...	Kind
Sussie Nejedly	...	Kind
Herbert Prikopa	...	Koch
Walter Regelsberger	...	Graf Windischgraetz
Oskar Wegrostek	...	Wirt

 

 

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

Austria / West Germany

Language:

German / Greek / Hungarian / Italian / Portuguese

Color:

Color (Agfacolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

 

Filming Locations:

 

Atelier Rosenhügel, Vienna, Austria more

 

Awards for

 

Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin (1957)

 

 

Cannes Film Festival
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1958	Nominated	Golden Palm	Ernst Marischka