The adventures of Sisi and Franz will continue.
German period drama series Sisi — a reimagining of the historic love story between 19th century Austrian Empress Elisabeth, nicknamed “Sisi,” and her husband, Emperor Franz — has received a third-season order from German network Rtl.
Swiss American actress Dominique Devenport will return as Sisi and Jannik Schümann as Franz for season 3, which Story House Pictures will produce, in collaboration with Beta Film.
Sisi was an out-of-the-gate hit for Rtl, which has success both streaming the show on its Rtl+ platform and broadcasting it on its flagship linear channel in Germany. Beta has sold the series to more than 100 territories worldwide, including to Mediaset in Italy, TF1 in France and Globoplay in Brazil.
In the Rtl series, Empress Elisabeth is depicted as a tomboy who falls, as a princess in Bavaria, head-over-heels in love with the the handsome and powerful Franz, Emperor of Austria.
German period drama series Sisi — a reimagining of the historic love story between 19th century Austrian Empress Elisabeth, nicknamed “Sisi,” and her husband, Emperor Franz — has received a third-season order from German network Rtl.
Swiss American actress Dominique Devenport will return as Sisi and Jannik Schümann as Franz for season 3, which Story House Pictures will produce, in collaboration with Beta Film.
Sisi was an out-of-the-gate hit for Rtl, which has success both streaming the show on its Rtl+ platform and broadcasting it on its flagship linear channel in Germany. Beta has sold the series to more than 100 territories worldwide, including to Mediaset in Italy, TF1 in France and Globoplay in Brazil.
In the Rtl series, Empress Elisabeth is depicted as a tomboy who falls, as a princess in Bavaria, head-over-heels in love with the the handsome and powerful Franz, Emperor of Austria.
- 2/15/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The five international directors featured in the second of The Hollywood Reporter’s Palm Springs Film Festival panels helmed stories ranging from the expansive — tales of overthrowing dictatorships such as Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985 — to intimate, tragic portraits of adolescent friendship, like in Lukas Dhont’s Close.
Some of these films are based on historical figures — like Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, which sees Vicky Krieps stepping into the role of the free-spirited Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul draws from the personal experiences of the director’s close friend and her complicated relationship with her birth family. And multiple Oscar-winner Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths weaves a complicated fiction out of semi-autobiographical musings.
THR‘s Kevin Cassidy leads a discussion with these five celebrated filmmakers about the kernel of inspiration behind their decision to create these features in this...
Some of these films are based on historical figures — like Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, which sees Vicky Krieps stepping into the role of the free-spirited Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul draws from the personal experiences of the director’s close friend and her complicated relationship with her birth family. And multiple Oscar-winner Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths weaves a complicated fiction out of semi-autobiographical musings.
THR‘s Kevin Cassidy leads a discussion with these five celebrated filmmakers about the kernel of inspiration behind their decision to create these features in this...
- 1/13/2023
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Corsage (2022).In Corsage, the young Louis Le Prince, the forefather of the early motion picture, instructs the Empress Elisabeth of Austria thusly: “As long as you smile, you can do anything,” before proceeding to film her. The outsized importance of keeping up appearances has never been lost on anyone, especially not a young monarch in 1877. Nearing age 40, the average life expectancy of women at the time, Elisabeth (nicknamed “Sisi”) begins to rebel against the stultifying ceremony of court life. With wit and verve, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer correspondingly follows suit, assembling a compellingly lush film that gently seethes below the surface. She fashions painterly frames that, upon further inspection, reveal politely surreal modifications—a modern door adorns an otherwise period-specific palace, contemporary leather goods sit alongside 19th-century silhouettes. These anachronistic flourishes casually accumulate; in one scene, the orchestral melody plinked by chamber musicians reveals itself as a cover of “As Tears Go By,...
- 12/21/2022
- MUBI
Vicky Krieps says she suffered physically for her art on the shoot of Austrian director Marie\ Kreutzer’s Corsage, revisiting the life of the legendary 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria with a contemporary, emancipated eye.
The Luxembourgish actress, who was a driving force behind the film and takes an executive producer credit, is no stranger to period dramas, having appeared in such films as Phantom Thread and The Young Karl Marx.
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However, for Corsage she took sartorial authenticity to the limit by wearing the same type of tightly laced corset that would have been worn by the empress, for the entirety of the shoot.
“I thought this poor woman suffered from it and I’m making a movie that wants to talk about women at that time and how they were restricted by something like a corset, which is also symbolic...
The Luxembourgish actress, who was a driving force behind the film and takes an executive producer credit, is no stranger to period dramas, having appeared in such films as Phantom Thread and The Young Karl Marx.
Related: The Contenders International – Deadline’s Full Coverage
However, for Corsage she took sartorial authenticity to the limit by wearing the same type of tightly laced corset that would have been worn by the empress, for the entirety of the shoot.
“I thought this poor woman suffered from it and I’m making a movie that wants to talk about women at that time and how they were restricted by something like a corset, which is also symbolic...
- 12/3/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Cinematography retrospectives are the way to go—more than a thorough display of talent, it exposes the vast expanse a Dp will travel, like an education in form and business all the same. Accordingly I’m happy to see the Criterion Channel give a 25-film tribute to James Wong Howe, whose career spanned silent cinema to the ’70s, populated with work by Howard Hawks, Michael Curtz, Samuel Fuller, Alexander Mackendrick, Sydney Pollack, John Frankenheimer, and Raoul Walsh.
Further retrospectives are granted to Romy Schneider (recent repertory sensation La piscine among them), Carlos Saura (finally a chance to see Peppermint frappe!), the British New Wave, and groundbreaking distributor Cinema 5, who brought to U.S. shores everything from The Man Who Fell to Earth and Putney Swope to Pumping Iron and Scenes from a Marriage.
September also yields streaming premieres for the recently restored Bronco Bullfrog, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands,...
Further retrospectives are granted to Romy Schneider (recent repertory sensation La piscine among them), Carlos Saura (finally a chance to see Peppermint frappe!), the British New Wave, and groundbreaking distributor Cinema 5, who brought to U.S. shores everything from The Man Who Fell to Earth and Putney Swope to Pumping Iron and Scenes from a Marriage.
September also yields streaming premieres for the recently restored Bronco Bullfrog, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands,...
- 8/22/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Event series ‘Sisi,’ a new take on Empress Elizabeth of Austria from Rtl, Beta Film and Story House Productions, sets itself apart from the very get-go.
Romy Schneider’s ‘50s cult movie trilogy turned a historical icon into a decorous pop legend. Kicking off in 1854, “Sisi,” the new series, delivers scenes of gobsmacking glamor, as when the camera slowly rises to expose the grandeur of Sisi’s home, a lakeside chateau.
But its realism – sexual, political and psychological – brings an edge to such period money shots. A declaration of intentions, Sisi begins with the heroine (Dominique Devenport) as a teen, stealthily pleasuring herself in her bed until her sister barges in through the door. After a family dinner scene, cut to the dashing young Emperor Franz Josef (Jannik Schümann) astride a horse, riding – a reverse shot reveals – to a scaffold where he will personally authorize the public hanging of Hungarian rebels,...
Romy Schneider’s ‘50s cult movie trilogy turned a historical icon into a decorous pop legend. Kicking off in 1854, “Sisi,” the new series, delivers scenes of gobsmacking glamor, as when the camera slowly rises to expose the grandeur of Sisi’s home, a lakeside chateau.
But its realism – sexual, political and psychological – brings an edge to such period money shots. A declaration of intentions, Sisi begins with the heroine (Dominique Devenport) as a teen, stealthily pleasuring herself in her bed until her sister barges in through the door. After a family dinner scene, cut to the dashing young Emperor Franz Josef (Jannik Schümann) astride a horse, riding – a reverse shot reveals – to a scaffold where he will personally authorize the public hanging of Hungarian rebels,...
- 10/10/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Vicky Krieps to star as the legendary 19th century empress whose life was far from a fairytale.
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Vicky Krieps to star as the legendary 19th century empress whose life was far from a fairytale.
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Vicky Krieps to star as the legendary 19th century empress whose life was far from a fairytale.
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Vicky Krieps leads the cast of Corsage, a co-production between Austria, Luxembourg, Germany and France. Elisabeth de Wittelsbach, the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary who reigned for over 44 years as the spouse of Emperor Franz Joseph I, isn’t simply a major European personality from the second half of the 19th century. Owing to her beauty and rebellious spirit, "Sissi" has continually fuelled all manner of fantasies in popular culture. The murdered sovereign was glorified in film in the 1950s via Ernst Marischka’s trilogy, which revealed Romy Schneider to the world. A number of TV films ensued, which swiftly sank into oblivion, such as Xaver Schwarzenberger’s mini-series Sisi. Then, in 2012, on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the sovereign’s birth, Kurt Mündl’s documentary Sisi… und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit offered up a new and far less sanitised portrayal of Elisabeth of Austria,...
Think, “I Was a Teenage Empress.” A trio of movies tell an optimized version of the life of a 19th century Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. It’s fuzzy history designed to prop up German morale, but the film is graced with the incredible presence of a teenaged Romy Schneider, whose beauty and personality became a sensation in the European film world.
The Sissi Collection:
Sissi
Sissi The Young Empress
Sissi The Fateful Years of an Empress
The Story of Vickie
Blu-ray
Film Movement
1955, 1956, 1957 / Color / 1:78 widescreen & 1:33 flat full frame / 102, 107, 109 min. / Street Date November 14, 2017 / 74.95
Starring: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Vilma Degischer, Josef Meinrad, Gustav Knuth.
Cinematography: Bruno Mondi
Film Editor: Alfred Srp
Original Music: Anton Profes
Produced by Karl Erlich, Ernst Marischka
Written and Directed by Ernst Marischka
I’m fascinated by National Epics, movies that individual countries might take as a film...
The Sissi Collection:
Sissi
Sissi The Young Empress
Sissi The Fateful Years of an Empress
The Story of Vickie
Blu-ray
Film Movement
1955, 1956, 1957 / Color / 1:78 widescreen & 1:33 flat full frame / 102, 107, 109 min. / Street Date November 14, 2017 / 74.95
Starring: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Vilma Degischer, Josef Meinrad, Gustav Knuth.
Cinematography: Bruno Mondi
Film Editor: Alfred Srp
Original Music: Anton Profes
Produced by Karl Erlich, Ernst Marischka
Written and Directed by Ernst Marischka
I’m fascinated by National Epics, movies that individual countries might take as a film...
- 11/14/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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