Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
Directed by Anatole Litvak, Kirk Browning
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Cast
Audrey Hepburn
Countess Marie Vetsera
Mel Ferrer
Crown Prince Rudolph
Raymond Massey
The Prime Minister
Basil Sydney
The Emperor Franz Joseph
Diana Wynyard
The Empress Elizabeth
Judith Evelyn
Countess Larische
Isobel Elsom
Baroness Vetsera
Nehemiah Persoff
Police Officer
Lorne Greene
Emperor's Aide
David Opatoshu
Police Officer
Ian Wolfe
Loschek
Monique van Vooren
Marinka
John McGovern
Szeps
David Atkinson
Philip of Coeburg
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