- Drama, History
- 114 min
- NR
Rotten Tomatoes85%Metacritic76IMDb6.5
No pain, no reign.
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Dec 20226/10
The danger with fictional accounts of the lives of real people, is that it is frequently all to easy to poke holes in the plot. This is one such film that takes just a little too much creative licence with the the life of the Empress Elisabeth (Vicky Krieps). Wife of the famed Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef (Florian Teichtmeister), this film follows a supposed year in the life of this curious historical figure who, having suffered a family tragedy and enduring a rather estranged emotional relationship with her husband, spends much of her life obsessing with her weight and seeking solitude. Krieps is on good form, she creates a persona for her character that is effective to watch, but the mixture of modern and period scenarios (old buildings with modern fire doors; a cross-channel ferry!) seems anachronistic - to what end? The buildings in which she and her family inhabit have none of the opulence and grandeur of the Hofburg or Prague Castle, indeed the British home of her horse-master "Bay" (Colin Morgan) looks little better that a ramshackle ruin - and this is incongruous with the way we know she lived her life. Reclusive, yes, but still in splendour. It is also a particular
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Cast
- Vicky KriepsEmpress Elisabeth
- Florian TeichtmeisterFranz Josef
- Katharina LorenzMarie Festetics
- Jeanne WernerIda Ferenczy
- Alma HasunFanny Feifalik
- Finnegan OldfieldLouis Le Prince
- Manuel RubeyLudwig II
- Aaron FrieszRudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
- Colin MorganBay Middleton
- Tamás LengyelGyula Andrássy
Crew
- Marie KreutzerDirector
- Marie KreutzerWriter
- Judith KaufmannDirector of Photography
- CamilleOriginal Music Composer
- Ulrike KoflerEditor
- Alexander GlehrProducer
- Johanna ScherzProducer
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