A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.

Vicky Krieps
as Empress Elisabeth

Florian Teichtmeister
as Franz Josef

Katharina Lorenz
as Marie Festetics

Jeanne Werner
as Ida Ferenczy

Alma Hasun
as Fanny Feifalik

Finnegan Oldfield
as Louis Le Prince

Manuel Rubey
as Ludwig II

Aaron Friesz
as Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria

Colin Morgan
as Bay Middleton

Tamás Lengyel
as Gyula Andrássy
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The danger with fictional accounts of the lives of real people, is that it is frequently all to easy to poke holes in the plot. This is one such film that takes just a little too much creative licence with the the life of the Empress Elisabeth (Vicky Krieps). Wife of the famed Austro-Hungarian Emper...