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Sissi face à son destin

Original title: Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin
  • 1957
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 49m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
6.4K
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Romy Schneider in Sissi face à son destin (1957)
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The final film in a highly romanticized trilogy about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria finds the young empress traveling throughout Europe.The final film in a highly romanticized trilogy about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria finds the young empress traveling throughout Europe.The final film in a highly romanticized trilogy about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria finds the young empress traveling throughout Europe.

  • Director
    • Ernst Marischka
  • Writer
    • Ernst Marischka
  • Stars
    • Romy Schneider
    • Karlheinz Böhm
    • Magda Schneider
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    6.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ernst Marischka
    • Writer
      • Ernst Marischka
    • Stars
      • Romy Schneider
      • Karlheinz Böhm
      • Magda Schneider
    • 10User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations total

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    Romy Schneider
    Romy Schneider
    • Empress Elisabeth of Austria…
    Karlheinz Böhm
    Karlheinz Böhm
    • Emperor Franz Josef of Austria
    Magda Schneider
    Magda Schneider
    • Duchess Ludovika of Bavaria
    Gustav Knuth
    Gustav Knuth
    • Duke Max of Bavaria
    Uta Franz
    Uta Franz
    • Princess Helene…
    Walther Reyer
    Walther Reyer
    • Graf Andrassy
    Vilma Degischer
    Vilma Degischer
    • Archduchess Sophie, Franz Josef's mother
    Josef Meinrad
    Josef Meinrad
    • Oberst Böckl
    Senta Wengraf
    • Gräfin Bellegarde
    Erich Nikowitz
    • Erzherzog Franz-Karl
    Hans Ziegler
    Hans Ziegler
    • Hofrat Dr. Seeburger
    Sonia Sorel
    • Henriette Mendel
    • (as Sonja Sorel)
    Klaus Knuth
    Klaus Knuth
    • Prinz Ludwig
    Albert Rueprecht
    Albert Rueprecht
    • Erzherzog Ferdinand-Max
    Peter Neusser
    • Graf Batthyani
    Karl Fochler
    • Graf Grünne
    Susanne von Almassy
      Franca Parisi
      Franca Parisi
      • Helena
      • Director
        • Ernst Marischka
      • Writer
        • Ernst Marischka
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      9mrdonleone

      Sissy must watch her Health in this One

      Very nice third part of the trilogy left me in tears throughout the viewing. Poor Sissy!!! And all that romance and the beauty made me just feel o so sad that there never was no fourth part to the series. With love,
      bonito

      Kitsch

      What a film: full colour (from Agfa), all those typical Austrian names and characters, beautiful and young Romy Schneider, but it is "Kitsch". The movie has nothing in common with real history, but served in the 50s an audience which tried to forget the war and nazism. They took the most wonderful scenes in Venice, when Sissis little daughter welcomes her mother arriving by gondola. Kitsch as kitsch can!
      dbdumonteil

      The last part of the Sissi trilogy.

      Like the first two Marischka movies ,and although nobody sings in these movies,they are closer to operetta than to cinema.Maudlin and syrupy to a fault,they nonetheless retain a kitsch charm.I must confess I love this exponentional schmaltz.History is given a rough ride,this is an euphemism,although most of the events that are depicted here did happen: Sissi's brother did marry an actress, a misalliance,and the adorable little girl whom Sissi's mother pampers would later be Marie Larish who would play a despicable prominent part in the Mayerling tragedy.The Hungarian part would occur later in Sissi's life,(her son Rudolf was present) and Andrassy's flame was purely fictional.

      While watching such candid pictures ,listening to lessons in wisdom and kindness,we almost forget that Sissi's fate was in fact a very dark one,and that her husband was still here when WW1 broke out.Afgacolor pictures are delightful and the ending is guaranteed to make the impressionable use two boxes of Kleenex.

      Romy Schneider made a volte face after Sissi the third.She turned down a one million marks offer,and despite her mother Magda -who plays her fictional mother and who was the star of Max Ophuls's "liebelei",left for broader horizons:she was to meet Visconti and Welles at the beginning of the sixties.A far cry from Sissi.She played "Sissi " again in 1972 in Viconti's "Ludwig" and she used to say that the Italian master was the only one who showed Elizabeth as she was.

      But Sissi is a dear memory ,particularly if you saw it when you were a child.You remember it like some kind of fairy tale in some faraway magic kingdom where every dream can come true.Or something like that.
      6blanche-2

      Pure schmaltz but so gorgeous to look at

      The final film in the Sissi trilogy - The Fateful Years of the Empress -- again stars Romy Schneider as Empress Elisabeth of Austria. These films are beloved by the European public, just as some of the Disney films we saw as children are to us.

      As far as history goes, the movies are not very accurate, though they do show real events. Sissi and her husband are portrayed as very much in love, a very romantic couple, although that was not true. Also, for the purposes of this film, their daughter Sophie actually lives, and there aren't any other children. Actually the whole end of this film in Venice, in history, took place much later in Sissi's life, and her son Ludwig was present.

      One interesting fact is that, as in the film, Sissi's brother married the actress Henriette Mendel, and she was made a Baroness. Their illegitimate daughter, who appears as a character in the movie, becomes Marie Larish. Marie Larish was the go-between for Elisabeth's son Ludwig and his fiancé Mary. After the Mayerling scandal, when Ludwig shoots Mary and then himself, it was learned that Marie served as go-between, and the family, including her close companion Sissi, completely disowned her.

      During the time that Sissi spends in Hungary, there were rumors that Count Andrassy was her lover, but this was never proved. The film is so whitewashed that a liaison would never have occurred to Sissi. Sissi does become very ill -- they suspect tuberculosis -- and is sent to Madeira to recover. However, it is believed that her condition was very much psychosomatic -- she really didn't like being at the palace -- because, unlike in the film, when she arrived in Madeira, she had a miraculous recovery. In the film, she remains ill until her mother arrives and gets her walking, etc.

      This film ends with the Emperor and Empress' triumphant appearance in Venice. Marischka planned on doing a fourth film, but Romy Schneider refused, turning down one million Deutschemarks. Schneider would become Elisabeth once more, in 1972, in the film Ludwig, playing the character closer to the real Sissi.

      The costumes, the scenery, the pageantry in this film is spectacular. Romy Schneider is fresh and beautiful and luminous as Empress Elisabeth, not at all the dark, anorexic character described in history as time went on.

      Sissi's end was tragic, as was Schneider's, but Europeans, so beaten down by war, were in the mood for something beautiful, and they got it with the Sissi films. She is such a beloved character there, like Princess Diana, audiences loved this view of her life.

      To be enjoyed as a real feast for the eyes.
      6v-56289

      the third and weakest

      The third and last episode has the same lyric, poetical tone. But this part is the weakest. Too much of discussions, too little of what I liked in the previous the most -> the idyllic nature celebrating tone

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      • Trivia
        Sissi was sick with tuberculosis. She insisted on being send to Madera to recover. After noticing some improvements in her condition she was send back to Vienna where she became a lot worst and then was send to Corfu to recover. She would only come back two years later.
      • Goofs
        The previous movie ended in 1867 during the crowning of Elizabeth and Franz Joseph as king and queen of Hungary, Sissi is also titled as such during the movie. However in this sequel the loss of Lombardy and Veneto from Austrian Empire happened in 1859 and 1866.
      • Quotes

        Emperor Franz Josef of Austria: I love Sissy and she has my fullest confidence. Of course, she is lovely. Everybody she meets finds her completely fascinating and, especially, the men! But, Sissy is no Catherine of Russia. Sissy is the truest, purest and most honest person I know.

      • Crazy credits
        In the opening credits the name "Sissi" is not displayed in the form of a title card, as in the previous movies, but on a square with birds posing forming the name before they fly away.
      • Connections
        Edited into Forever My Love (1962)
      • Soundtracks
        Kaiserlied
        Music by Joseph Haydn

        Lyrics by Lorenz Leopold Haschka

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      • Release date
        • September 10, 1958 (France)
      • Country of origin
        • Austria
      • Languages
        • German
        • Greek
        • Hungarian
        • Italian
        • Portuguese
      • Also known as
        • Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
      • Filming locations
        • Ravello, Salerno, Campania, Italy(as Korfu and Madeira)
      • Production company
        • Erma-Film
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      • Runtime
        • 1h 49m(109 min)
      • Color
        • Color
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.37 : 1

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