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Mayerling
Mayerling

MAYERLING

Producers' Showcase: Mayerling

Directed by Anatole Litvak
United States, 1957
Romance, Drama, History

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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.