The Fall of the Habsburgs
The Habsburg Dynasty had ruled large parts of Europe and the world for 650 years. During World War I, however, the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire sowed the seeds of its own demise. At the height of World War I, the world of the Habsburgs was on the brink of collapse. Almost exactly 100 years ago to the day, in April 1918, the most sensitive diplomatic mission of the First World War became a Europe-wide scandal: the so-called "Sixtus Affair". Secret negotiations between the Austrian imperial family and France were supposed to bring peace to the Danube monarchy – and their failure caused the war to escalate and the Habsburgs to fall.
Cast
Eszter Hollósi
as Narrator
Dörte Lyssewski
as Narrator
Dieter Witting
as Narrator
Leopold Altenburg
as Kaiser Karl
Daniela Golpashin
as Kaiserin Zita
Raphael von Bargen
as Tamás Graf Erdödy
Jens Claßen
as King George V
Stanislaus Dick
as Prinz Sixtus von Bourbon-Parma
Thomas Eichhorn
as Außenminister Graf Ottokar Czernin
Hans Holzbecher
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
