Mayerling

Name: Mayerling
Genre: TV Movie, Romance, War, History
Released: 1957-02-04
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, Raymond Massey, Basil Sydney, Diana Wynyard

5.5 1957 85mmovie

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.