Sissi

Sissi (1955)

The magical love story of the young Empress Elisabeth!

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.

Date of release
1955-12-22
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (536)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
Ernst Marischka
Collection
Sissi Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Schloss Fuschl, Kaiservilla, and St. Michael's Church

Sissi is a 1955 Austrian historical romance film written and directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth, Josef Meinrad, Vilma Degischer and Peter Weck. Sissi is the first installment in a trilogy of films about Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), who was known to her family as "Sissi". It was followed by The Young Empress and Fateful Years of an Empress.

Filming locations

Finance came in part from Allied Artists.

Sissi was filmed in some original places the Empress visited, including Schönbrunn Palace and the Kaiservilla in Bad Ischl. The scenes of her youth on Lake Starnberg, however, were actually filmed at Fuschl Castle at Lake Fuschl in the Salzkammergut region because Possenhofen Castle was in a poor condition at the time. The wedding celebration was filmed at St. Michael's Church, Vienna.

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