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Romy Schneider: Princess Elisabeth
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Romy Schneider became a star while still in her teens thanks largely to the Sissi films, a trio of confectionary features made between 1955 and 1957 about the Austrian-Hungarian royal family. Portions of all three films were edited together for this 1962 epic, which follows the romantic hurdles faced by Franz Josef, the young Emperor of Austria, and his beloved Sissi (Schneider), the sister of a Bavarian princess. Dubbed in English. 140 minutes.
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Romy Schneider was only 17 when she played the title role in "Sissi", a romantic movie about the young Bavarian princess that became the empress of Austria. The film was Schneider’s breakthrough -- it turned the Austrian-born actress into an instant 1950s film diva.
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At the age of seventeen, Romy Schneider became an international star through her portrayal of Princess Elisabeth (Sissi) of Austria in the first of three lavish films directed by Ernst Marischka. While she would go on to work with some of the most influential and daring European directors of the era, Schneider will always be remembered by this defining role. Now for the first time on DVD, KOCH LORBER Films proudly presents the restored "Sissi Trilogy" (Sissi, Sissi: The Young Empress, Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress) in its entirety along with the U.S. theatrically released, English-language dubbed version, Forever My Love, and Victoria in Dover (The Story of Vickie), a precursor to the trilogy in which Schneider plays Britain's Princess Victoria.
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Austrian-born actress Romy Schneider (1938 - 1982) went from playing Bavarian princesses in frothy historical dramas to working with some of the most influential and daring European filmmakers of her era during the 1960s and 1970s. "Elegant and sensuous, she had a striking screen presence," noted Schneider's "Times" of London obituary from 1982, "but despite excellent performances of both comic and dramatic parts, her career did not quite fulfil its early promise."
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Romy Schneider won the hearts of the audience all over the world with the role of "Sissi". Those three movies about the life of the Austrian empress Elisabeth still reach high viewing figures during television repeats.
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Mädchenjahre einer Königen was written and directed by veteran Austrian filmmaker Ernst Marischka, and its success led to Schneider being cast in 1955's Sissi, the first in a trilogy of films about Elisabeth, the wife of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef. The film was a huge success in West Germany and Austria at the time and was quickly followed by two sequels that chronicled the beloved princess's 1854 wedding and subsequently tragic personal life. The trilogy's popularity seemed linked to some lingering post-World War II unease in West Germany, maintained critic Ute Schneider. "Hardly any other 1950s tearjerker film had been more effective in letting the audience sob their heart out," she wrote, according to an essay in the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. "It is a pertinent example of the continuing repression of political reality that can be traced in [German] entertainment cinema. Sissi demonstrated yet again the victory of the heart over the 'evil' of politics, the dream of conquering people and countries with no more than a feminine smile and maternal care."
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