Mayerling

Synopsis

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

Director

Anatole Litvak

Featured Cast

Audrey Hepburn

Countess Marie Vetsera

Mel Ferrer

Crown Prince Rudolph

Raymond Massey

The Prime Minister

Basil Sydney

The Emperor Franz Joseph

Diana Wynyard

The Empress Elizabeth