
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.
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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

Judith Evelyn
Countess Larische

Isobel Elsom
Baroness Vetsera

Nehemiah Persoff
Police Officer

Lorne Greene
Emperor's Aide

David Opatoshu
Police Officer

Ian Wolfe
Loschek

Monique van Vooren
Marinka
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