Mayerling

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Audrey HepburnCountess Marie Vetsera

Mel FerrerCrown Prince Rudolph

Raymond MasseyThe Prime Minister

Basil SydneyThe Emperor Franz Joseph

Diana WynyardThe Empress Elizabeth

Judith EvelynCountess Larische

Isobel ElsomBaroness Vetsera

Nehemiah PersoffPolice Officer

Lorne GreeneEmperor's Aide

David OpatoshuPolice Officer

Ian WolfeLoschek

Monique van VoorenMarinka