The Sissi Collection - 4-DVD Set ( Sissi / Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin / Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin / Mädchenjahre einer Königin ) ( Sissi / Sissi: The Young Empress / Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress / Victoria in Dover: The Story of Vickie (The Pursuit and Loves of Queen Victoria) )

The Sissi Collection - 4-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

$28.99

Original Title: Sissi / Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin / Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin / Mädchenjahre einer Königin
Alternate Title: Sissi / Sissi: The Young Empress / Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress / Victoria in Dover: The Story of Vickie (The Pursuit and Loves of Queen Victoria)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
429 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1954 - 1957 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Ernst Marischka

Written By:
Ernst Marischka
Sil Vara

Actors:
Romy Schneider ..... Princess Elisabeth in Bavaria
Kaiserin Elisabeth ..... Kaiser Franz Joseph
Sissi ..... Duchess Ludovika in Bayern
Karlheinz Böhm ..... Princess Helene in Bayern /
Magda Schneider ..... Duke Max in Bavaria
Uta Franz ..... Archduchess Sophie, Franz Josef's mother
Nene ..... Gendarmerie-Major Böckl
Gustav Knuth ..... Archduke Franz Karl
Vilma Degischer ..... Graf Grünne
Josef Meinrad ..... Johann Petzmacher
Erich Nikowitz ..... Archduke Carl-Ludwig
Karl Fochler ..... Baronin Wulffen
Franz Böheim ..... Graf Arco, Prime Minister
Peter Weck ..... Postmeister von Ischl
Hilde Wagener ..... Feldmaerschall Radetzky
Egon von Jordan
Richard Eybner
Otto Treßler
Romy Schneider ..... Empress Elisabeth
Sissi ..... Kaiser Franz Josef
Karlheinz Böhm ..... Duchess Ludovika
Magda Schneider ..... Duke Max of Bavaria
Gustav Knuth ..... Archduchess Sophie, Franz Josef's mother
Vilma Degischer ..... Count Andrassy
Walter Reyer ..... Gräfin Bellegarde
Senta Wengraf ..... Major Böckl
Josef Meinrad ..... Dr. Max Falk
Iván Petrovich ..... Gräfin Esterhazy
Helene Lauterböck ..... Erzherzog Franz-Karl
Erich Nikowitz ..... Dr. Seeburger
Hans Ziegler ..... Graf Grünne
Karl Fochler
Franz Böheim
Hilde Wagener
Romy Schneider ..... Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Sissi ..... Emperor Franz Josef of Austria
Karlheinz Böhm ..... Duchess Ludovika of Bavaria
Gustav Knuth ..... Princess Helene
Uta Franz ..... Graf Andrassy
Nene ..... Archduchess Sophie, Franz Josef's mother
Walter Reyer ..... Oberst Böckl
Vilma Degischer ..... Gräfin Bellegarde
Josef Meinrad ..... Erzherzog Franz-Karl
Senta Wengraf ..... Hofrat Dr. Seeburger
Erich Nikowitz ..... Henriette Mendel
Hans Ziegler ..... Prinz Ludwig
Sonia Sorel ..... Erzherzog Ferdinand-Max
Klaus Knuth ..... Graf Batthyani
Albert Rueprecht
Peter Neusser
Romy Schneider ..... Princess Victoria /
Queen Victoria ..... Prince Albert of Sachsen-Coburg
Adrian Hoven ..... Baroness Lehzen
Magda Schneider ..... Lord Melbourne - Prime Minister
Karl Ludwig Diehl ..... Duchess of Kent
Christl Mardayn ..... Prof. Landmann
Paul Hörbiger ..... George - ein Lakai
Rudolf Vogel ..... König Leopold von Belgien
Fred Liewehr ..... Lord Cunningham
Alfred Neugebauer ..... Archbishop of Canterbury
Otto Treßler ..... Sir John Conroy
Stefan Skodler ..... Prince Henry of Orange
Peter Weck ..... Archduke Alexander of Russia
Rudolf Lenz ..... The Dean Chester
Hans Thimig ..... Taglione, Tanzmeister
Peter Gerhard

Synopsis:

The beautiful Romy Schneider stars in three captivating films (plus a prequel) based on the tumultuous life of the beloved Austrian Empress, Sissi. The glowing star of films by Visconti, Losey and Sautel, Schneider left an indelible mark on European cinema but is best known as Sissi, a role that launched her international career. The story of the early years of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and her beloved Franz Joseph, the Sissi films (released 1955-57) continue to exert a romantic and nostalgic spell on worldwide audiences. This 4 DVD set includes Sissi the classic first film following Sissi's first year in court and her adjustment to being part of a joint monarchy; Sissi The Young Empress; and Sissi The Fateful Years of an Empress, charting Sissi's frustrations with court life in Vienna. The set includes the prequel to the trilogy, Sissi Victoria in Dover.
List of Films:
Sissi (1955)
Sissi: The Young Empress (1956)
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957)
Victoria in Dover: The Story of Vickie (1954)

Sissi (1955)
16 year old princess Elisabeth, 'Sissi', follows her mother and sister Helene to the Austrian court in Ischl, where the engagement between Helene and the young emperor Franz Josef will be announced. But he meets Sissi when she's out fishing and falls in love with her. Sissi loves Franz Josef but a marriage with him comes with a bonus, his arrogant and headstrong mother.

Sissi: The Young Empress (1956)
Sissi is slowly adapting to life as empress of Austria but finds it hard to live with her mother-in-law. The arch-duchess Sophie is a genuine busybody who constantly interferes with how the emperor rules the empire and how Sissi brings up her first-born daughter.

Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957)
The Austrian empress enjoys traveling trough Hungary, where she ultimately finds the politically priceless affection of local count Andrassy too intimate, but it's only temporary relief from the frustrations of court life in Vienna, where dutiful Franz remains chained to his desk and leaves his chillingly strict mother Sophie interfering, even in the upbringing of their daughter. When Sissi is diagnosed with plausibly fatal tuberculosis and Franz has to allow Sophie to remove their daughter on doctor's warning, Sissi is in danger of losing the will to live while exiled to recovery-inducing climates (Portuguese Madeira and Greek Corfu). Then desperately needed psycho-somatic therapy appears in the form of her indestructibly positive mother Ludovika of Bavaria, who lovingly nurses both her sickness and her taste for life on idyllic walks. Once again Oberst Böckl, the clumsy body-guard whose doting admiration for the empress borders on the improper, provides a comical note, as each time Sissi moves he struggles with the local language and falls in love with his private teacher. Finally she is well enough to rejoin her husband on an official visit to Venice, part of Austrias remaining possessions in Northern Italy, where nationalism prepares the Habsburg sovereigns a hostile welcome which may even start a violent uprising, but the emotional Italians melt for the ostentatiously loving reunion of mother and daughter on St. Mark's square.

Victoria in Dover: The Story of Vickie (1954)
England, the 19th century. Young Victoria is crowned to be the queen of England. She aims to do her best in order to help her country prosper. However, the family and her trustful advisor, Lord Melbourne, plan marriage for her. She is to get married to a German prince Albert. But Victoria sees her future differently and decides to leave London for a few days. She goes to Paris. On her way to France, she stays incognito in a little tavern in Dover with a baroness. There by chance she meets a handsome man and falls in love head over heels. Later, however, in very strange circumstances, it turns out that the handsome man is prince Albert himself...

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