Mayerling
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. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
Cast
Audrey Hepburn
Countess Marie VetseraMel Ferrer
Crown Prince RudolphRaymond Massey
The Prime MinisterBasil Sydney
The Emperor Franz JosephDiana Wynyard
The Empress ElizabethJudith Evelyn
Countess LarischeIsobel Elsom
Baroness VetseraNehemiah Persoff
Police OfficerLorne Greene
Emperor's AideDavid Opatoshu
Police OfficerIan Wolfe
LoschekMonique van Vooren
MarinkaJohn McGovern
SzepsNancy Marchand
Princess StephanieMichael Evans
HoyosBerry Kroeger
HeadwaiterPippa Scott
Hanna VetseraLaurinda Barrett
Marie's CousinIggie Wolfington
a DrummerFrancis Compton
Prater Waiter