Mayerling (1936)

Directed by

Anatole Litvak

Genre

drama film, biographical film, romance film, melodrama, historical film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A crown prince falls in love with a young baroness, but their relationship leads to a shared tragic death.

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What happens

Mayerling is a 1936 French historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Seymour Nebenzal from a screenplay by Marcel Achard, Joseph Kessel, and Irma von Cube, based on the 1930 novel Idyll's End by Claude Anet. The film stars Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux with René Bergeron, Jean Davy, Jean Dax, Jean Debucourt and Gabrielle Dorziat, and Jean-Louis Barrault in a bit part. The film is based on the real-life story of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, his affair with the 17-year-old Baroness Maria Vetsera and their tragic end at Mayerling. The film was remade twice: once as the 1957 television film Mayerling, also directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Mel Ferrer and Audrey Hepburn, then as the 1968 film Mayerling in color by MGM, starring Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, and Ava Gardner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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