Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe

Basically a Hallmark version of a tragic story of royal mental illness during the 19th century. The lead male is pretty to look at. Sets and costumes are good. Ride with inaccuracies.

Basically a Hallmark version of a tragic story of royal mental illness during the 19th century. The lead male is pretty to look at. Sets and costumes are good. Ride with inaccuracies.

Basically a Hallmark version of a tragic story of royal mental illness during the 19th century. The lead male is pretty to look at. Sets and costumes are good. Ride with inaccuracies.

Basically a Hallmark version of a tragic story of royal mental illness during the 19th century. The lead male is pretty to look at. Sets and costumes are good. Ride with inaccuracies.

I just happened upon this two part movie while scrolling for period dramas. The casting is excellent, as other reviewers have noted, and the cinematography, costumes, etc., are top notch. What I find disturbing are the many sex scenes that seem to be creeping in to every movie made nowadays. I will not watch the smut so I found myself fast forwarding through much of it. This Prince apparently spent half his time in bordellos of one sort or another. There are ways to indicate what's going on without zooming into the action and forcing it on the audience after all-remember Rhett Butler carrying Scarlet up the stairs? For those of us who want to see clean historical dramas I guess we are just stuck with Jane Austen.

I can't vote as I haven't seen it yet, but am looking forward to that moment, especially as I enjoyed Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve in Mayerling. That was a splendid production.

This production will intrigue me though as the late Empress Zita insisted that they were murdered... Was she mistaken, or is that "truth" being ignored by the producer of this version?? I'm writing a script at the moment about the life of the Emperor Charles, and am making references to this part of the family history, so perhaps I'd better see this before I complete my story!

I'll be watching to see when the DVD is available. Or will it be released on TV in the UK? Can't wait!

Mary Vetsera was merely a child, 17 years old, at the time of the Mayerling incident. Could they really not find a more suitable actress to portray her, than a 27 years old Vittoria Puccini? She was much older than Daniela Golpashin, who portrayed Rudolf's wife, for chrissake.

Especially because of Sandra Ceccarelli we - my wife as a long year Sisi collector and Sisi-researcher and co-author with me for a book about the Empress - awarded nine stars. In our opinion, she is the best actress of the elderly Empress Elisabeth of Austria of all films ever made about her. There were also some good actresses - for example Daniela Ziegler. But Sandra Ceccarelli comes very close to the Empress in her appearance. She is also slim and slightly taller than the Emperor in the film, which is historically correct. Very well presented by Klaus Maria Brandauer. Marie was married to Count Larisch from 1877 to 1897 and was consequently a Countess Larisch at the time of the Mayerling tragedy. She played a bigger role in the affair than shown in the film. There was a heated conversation between Rudolf and Marie shortly before the double suicide. Rudolf wanted to send Mary away in Mayerling. He already had a carriage prepared for them. But Mary really wanted to stay. But Robert Dornhelm has made again a good historically movie. The movie is supposed to be an example for a good new film about the Empress Elisabeth, which nobody has managed to do since the Marischka trilogy "Sissi".

Post scriptum: There has also not been a film about Countess Larisch, born as Mendel, ennobled as Wallersee. She was Empress Elisabeth's favorite niece but fell out of favor with her because of the Mayerling affair and she rejected her.