Sissi: The Young Empress

Dec 1, 1956

1h 47m

★ 7.1

Overview

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the arch-duchess Sophie is trying to tell the emperor how to rule and also Sissi how to be a mother.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Erma-Film

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Cast

Empress Elisabeth

Romy Schneider

Emperor Franz Joseph

Karlheinz Böhm

Duchess Ludovika

Magda Schneider

Archduchess Sophie

Vilma Degischer

Duke Max

Gustav Knuth

Count Andrassy

Walther Reyer

Major Böckl

Josef Meinrad

Countess Bellegarde

Senta Wengraf

Princess Helene

Uta Franz

Johann Petzmacher

Franz Böheim

Archduke Franz Karl

Erich Nikowitz

Dr. Seeburger

Hans Ziegler

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