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The Empress should stream next spring
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Beside TVNOW's
Sisi series and
Corsage movie with
Vicky Krieps, I told you that we will also be getting a third project on famous Austrian empress Sisi as
Netflix is shooting six part series
THE EMPRESS
as one of their new German originals and today I have first photos for you from the production that started earlier this month. The series will depict Sisi’s
life from her teenage years onwards, when she first met Emperor Franz
Joseph of Austria Hungary, and
Devrim Lingnau and
Philip Froissant will
play the imperial couple. When the rebellious Elisabeth meets Franz,
the Emperor of Austria, in 1853 the young couple's intoxicating love
completely upsets the power structure at the Viennese court. After the
wedding, the young empress must assert herself not only against her
mother
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Philip Froissant and Devrim Lingnau are Franz und Sisi
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in law, the sovereign, power hungry Sophie, but also against
Franz's brother Maxi, who himself longs for the throne (and for Sisi). As
enemy troops form
up on the borders of the Habsburg Empire, people in
Vienna rise up in protest against the emperor. Elisabeth must find out
who she can trust and how high
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Both The Empress and Sisi will air in six hourlong episodes
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the price is to be a true empress and a
figure of hope for
the people. While her contemporaries considered her kitschy and vain,
Sisi got a whole cult of fans
after she was stabbed to death in Geneva
in 1898. Kinda like today's rock stars. You can read our main spotlight on the series with tons of photos
HERE.
Meanwhile, check out two new photos from the rival series to the Netflix' one, which will
also have six episodes but will air first as The Empress above
is scheduled for next spring and
SISI for the end of the year. The lead
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Desiree Nosbusch is glamorous ArchDuchess Sophie
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cast includes
Dominique Devenport as Sisi, and
Jannik Schümann as emperor Franz.The
series, which will air on ORF in Austria, RTL's streamer TVNOW in
Germany and TF1 in France and is produced by Beta Film, will also
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Six part Sisi should arrive sometime at the end of the year
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star
Désirée Nosbusch as Archduchess Sophie, Franz's mother,
Tanja Schleiff as Countess Esterhazy,
Paula Kober as Fanny,
Julia Stemberger as Sisi's mother, Duchess Ludovika, and
Giovanni Funiati as Count Andrassy.
completely upsets the power structure at the Viennese court. After the
wedding, the young empress must assert herself not only against her
mother
up on the borders of the Habsburg Empire, people in
Vienna rise up in protest against the emperor. Elisabeth must find out
who she can trust and how high 
after she was stabbed to death in Geneva
in 1898. Kinda like today's rock stars. You can read our main spotlight on the series with tons of photos HERE.
o no, not sisi again...:-(
ReplyDeleteI've never actually seen any of the classic versions, there is one on YouTube but geoblocked for anyone not in Deutchland. But I know she was a proper biyatch LOL
DeleteSissi was my idol when I was six year old, but having spent half a century watching everything on her and even writing papers about her, I had enough with the subject because, yes, she was a mega bitch.
DeleteA drug using super vain imperial biyatch LOL
DeleteThose dresses are really something. Love them.
ReplyDeleteThat was probably the most fun period fashionwise.
DeleteThe dresses in Sisi are certainly full! I have to wonder how difficult it was for the actors to get around in them.
ReplyDeleteI think most of them weighed up to fifty or sixty pounds.
DeleteLooking at those dresses and thinking about this hellish heat makes me feel sorry for ladies back then.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they had midgets who fanned them underneath LOL I remember that King Louis' wife in Versailles had a black midget who did more than just fanning her down there.... thus the scandal when she gave him a black heir LOL
DeleteWell, there’s some juicy TV material, just sayin hahahaha
DeleteLOL, juicy TV material indeed!
DeleteNeedless to say the queen did not end up well...
DeleteI was all intrigued and then it had to nonchalantly say “stabbed to death”. Can’t everything just be happiness and roses for once?!
ReplyDeleteNo, she was a cunt and deserved it LOL Most Austrian royalty deserved it LOL We stabbed a few ourselves LOL One of our boys stabbed that nasty prick Franz Ferdinand of Austria when he took Bosnia from us and it then lead to WW1, but it was the prick's fault, not ours.
DeleteI usually am lost with your history lessons b/c it's all knew information to me. But we were all taught about Archduke Ferdinand and how his death was the trigger for WWI. It was beaten into our heads so much, that 15 years later, I still remember it quite vividly.
DeleteIt was a trigger but not the reason, the reason was Austria's imperialistic tendencies towards the Balkans, they wanted to occupy us whole, and the allies just would not have it. When our Gavrilo Princip killed their emperor Franz, Austria demanded from us to open our borders to their police and that is against any sovereignty so we sad fuck off and then Russia told them to piss off and England too and that is how the war started because they wanted to spread through half a Europe.
DeleteFigures we weren't taught it accurately!
DeleteIt is always like that.
DeleteBeautiful blog
ReplyDeleteIt is breathtakingly stunning indeed.
DeletePlease read my post.
ReplyDeleteI read it but I aint leaving comments on blogs with hundreds of comments as that is where spammers get their victims LOL
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