Film and reality - What the Sissi trilogy left out
Speaker: writer Barbara Káli-Rozmis, Queen Elizabeth researcher
Even today, Ernst Marischka's Sissi is one of the most successful German-language films in the world. The Negro trilogy was intended to forget the horrors of the Second World War and instead transport the audience to a more distant past. The three films have little to do with historical reality, and the first has slightly more to do with it than the two that followed. But that's not why we love them. The aim of the show is not to pull off the trilogy so dear to many of us that made Franz Joseph's wife so popular in so many countries of the world, but to put the historical facts in place and to show us the real Elizabeth. We will look at the similarities and differences between reality and the scenes in the film trilogy. Amongst other things, we will also talk about Sissi's (or Sisi's - the audience will also learn about this) 'severe lung disease', which brought tears to the eyes of so many people in the third part of The Fateful Years (1957). Many people, when they see a portrait of the real Elisabeth after a Romy Schneider film, remark, "But she wasn't as beautiful as in the film!" Was Romy really more beautiful than Sisi? If Elizabeth did not live up to the ideal of beauty of her time, what were the qualities that made her one of the most beautiful women in the world? We will find out why we can say that the casting of Sissi is perfect in many ways; and we will also learn that not only Ernst Marischka, but also history, proved to be a good director...
Free admission to the event
Location: chamber hall