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Actor: Gustav Knuth, Karlheinz Bohm, Magda Schneider, Romy Schneider, Vilma DegischerBrand: Koch International
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 574 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
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Movie Review: Romantic View of the Austria at It's Peak
Summary: 5 Stars
This beloved film series has been awaited by American fans for a long time. The main films have been beautifully restored and show Austria at it's peak through a romantic lens as the films examine the courting, marriage and life of Sissi, Empress of Austria. In addition to lovely and colorful shots of Austrian palaces and countryside, this is a nostalgic and fond remembrance of a gilded empire seen through from the personal perspective of the most popular royal woman in the history of the Habsburgs. The difficulties are glossed over, but you're not buying history here. This is a sympathetic postcard from the Ancien Regime.
Summary of The Sissi Collection
Romy Schneider makes film history in her career defining role as Sissi a teenage princess caught between love and royal responsibilities. The films follow her and her emperor husband Franz as they are thrust into hair-raising adventures and torn away from their idyllic life of romantic strolls and royal hunts. System Requirements:Run Time: 574 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?NR UPC:?741952313793 Manufacturer No:?KLF-DV3137The Sissi trilogy presents through heartwarming storytelling and undeniable visual beauty a Cinderella story in scrupulous detail, in three chronologically biographical films that, together, take nearly six hours to watch. Made between 1955-1957 by German director Ernst Marischka, Sissi, Sissi: The Young Empress, and Sissi: The Fateful Years of An Empress chronicle, in not-strictly historical terms, Elisabeth of Bavaria's marriage to her cousin, Franz Josef (Karlheinz B?hm), for which she is crowned Princess of Austria and, later, Queen of Hungary. Nicknamed Sissi (Romy Schneider), Elisabeth possesses fairy tale beauty and charm, from her early days in her Austrian schlosse, where she raises dachshunds, doves, and pet deer, to her latter days as regal ambassador of love, honesty, and generosity. The three films, taken as one sprawling epic, are as saccharine and idealized as The Sound of Music, with similar alpine landscapes, rivers, and castles dotting the sets. But Romy Schneider's magnetism is as strong as Julie Andrews's, and as one watches her horseback riding, learning manners and politics, having a baby, winning the hearts of Hungarians and Italians, or suffering with tuberculosis, it is quite difficult to turn the films off! The costuming and ceremonial pomp alone is riveting and serves as a fascinating glimpse, even if fictionalized, into 19th century aristocratic life. Each character in Sissi's family, including the reproachful mother-in-law, Sophie (Vilma Degischer), who constantly reprimands Sissi for her lack of formality and sophistication, and her warm parents, Ludovika and Max (Magda Schneider and Gustav Knuth) add infinite depth to this ambitious tale. The extras in the Sissi Collection, including "Forever My Love," a condensed, English-dubbed version lacking original score, and "Victoria in Dover," a precusor to the Sissi trilogy in which Schneider plays Princess Victoria, contextualize but don't compare to the trilogy's vigorous cinematic power. To watch the Sissi trilogy in full effect is to revel in ostentatious filmic presentation, and in the fantastic possibility that fate instigates love, politics, and sheer, unabashed goodness. -Trinie Dalton
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