It’s one of two major releases focusing on the life of Sissi this year.
Romy Schneider played Sissi multiple times throughout her career, later saying that the princess “sticks to me just like oatmeal”.Romy Schneider famously played Sissi in a ’50s trilogy opposite Karlheinz Böhm’s Franz. Filming took place at the Habsburg seats of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna and the Kaiserville near Salzburg, with the movies later becoming one of the most successful German-language productions in history.
If you’re keen for a more factual account of Elisabeth’s life, German scholar Brigitte Hamann’s biography,, gives a compelling overview of her triumphs and failures – and provides welcome historical context behind the Sissi myth. Take the fact that, when Sissi’s only son and heir Rudolf tragically committed suicide in 1889, it made Archduke Franz Ferdinand the heir presumptive, with his subsequent assassination giving rise to the First World War.
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