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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.

Top Cast

  • Audrey Hepburn

    Audrey Hepburn

    Countess Marie Vetsera

  • Mel Ferrer

    Mel Ferrer

    Crown Prince Rudolph

  • Raymond Massey

    Raymond Massey

    The Prime Minister

  • Basil Sydney

    Basil Sydney

    The Emperor Franz Joseph

  • Diana Wynyard

    Diana Wynyard

    The Empress Elizabeth

  • Judith Evelyn

    Judith Evelyn

    Countess Larische

  • Isobel Elsom

    Isobel Elsom

    Baroness Vetsera

  • Nehemiah Persoff

    Nehemiah Persoff

    Police Officer

  • Lorne Greene

    Lorne Greene

    Emperor's Aide

Overview

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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