Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)

Original title

Tragödie im Hause Habsburg

Directed by

Alexander Korda

Genre

drama film, silent film, historical film

Country

Germany

Runtime

2h 02m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent film depicts the Mayerling Incident of 1889 where the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire died by suicide. It follows the events leading up to that tragedy. The movie was filmed in Berlin and Vienna.

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What happens

Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (German: Tragödie im Hause Habsburg) is a 1924 German silent historical film directed by Alexander Korda and starring María Corda, Kálmán Zátony and Emil Fenyvessy. The film recounts the events of the 1889 Mayerling Incident in which the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire committed suicide. Interior filming was done at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin with location shooting in Vienna. The film cost $80,000 to make, but only earned back around half of this at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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