Mayerling (1957)

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.

Released

1957-02-04

Genres

TV Movie, Romance, War, History

Runtime

85 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Anatole Litvak, Kirk Browning

TMDB rating

6.1/10 from 7 votes