SEE VICKY KRIEPS AS EMPRESS SISI IN CORSAGE HISTORICAL DRAMA MOVIE TRAILER AND ALESSANDRO SPERDUTI AS DANTE ALIGHIERI IN ITALIAN HISTORICAL BIOPIC

 CORSAGE MOVIE TRAILER 

EMPRESS GOES CRAZY

Corsage is now in German cinemas

We are international today starting with the full, rather bizarre, trailer for CORSAGE historical drama about Austrian empress Sisi which is currently playing in German and Austrian cinemas and will hit Spain and France in winter. Vicky Krieps leads the cast as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in this bold, revisionist Cannes prize winner that uncinches the Sissi legend forever. Empress Elizabeth of Austria was idolized for her beauty and was renowned for inspiring fashion trends but in 1877 Christmas Empress turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman and she is now desperately trying to maintain her public image. Florian Teichtmeister plays her husband emperor Franz Joseph.

 

  DANTE MOVIE TRAILER 

ARRIVING FROM ITALY

Straight from Italy comes the trailer for historical movie DANTE from Pupi Avati who both directs and pens the script about famous writer Dante Alighieri. The film was supposed to be released in 2021 to celebrate the 700th

Dante is out this September in Italy

anniversary of Dante's birth but due to delays caused by Covid outbreak, the film is now set to open September 29th in Italy. September 1350. Giovanni Boccaccio (Sergio Castellitto) is commissioned to bring ten gold florins as symbolic compensation to Sister Beatrice, daughter of Dante Alighieri (Alessandro Sperduti), a nun in Ravenna in the monastery of Santo Stefano degli Ulivi. During his long journey, Boccaccio, as well as his daughter, will meet those who, in the last years of Ravenna's exile, sheltered and welcomed the great poet and who, on the contrary, rejected him and put him on the run. Retracing part of Dante's journey from Florence to Ravenna, stopping in the same convents, in the same

Allessandro Sperduti plays Dante himself in the movie

villages, in the same castles, in the opening of the same libraries, in the questions he asks and in the answers he gets, Boccaccio reconstructs the human story of Dante, to the point of being able to tell us his entire story.

1ST CORSAGE HISTORICAL MOVIE POSTER IS HERE WITH VICKY CRIEPS AS EMPRESS SISI OF AUSTRIA AND HUNGARIA! COLIN MORGAN JOINS THE CAST!

  'CORSAGE' POSTER WITH 

VICKY KRIESP AS EMPRESS SISI

While we are waiting to get  a trailer ahead of Cannes movie festival where it is competing, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer's CORSAGE, a

The movie is out this July in Germany

historical film that centres on Empress Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria, has just got a poster. Set in 1877, the story will portray the monarch renowned for her beauty as she turns 40 and starts being considered an old woman. Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps plays the lead role, Florian Teichtmeister stars as Emperor Franz Joseph, Manuel Rubey as cousin and close friend Ludwig II, King of Bavaria and Katharina Lorenz as lady-in-waiting and confidante Marie Festetics. Colin Morgan will play famous British horse rider Bay Middleton.

  Dezzy's History Lesson
The story of Empress Elizabeth is the story of the girl who was unexpectedly thrust into  the centre of Europe’s most treacherous imperial court at the age of 15 when she unwittingly stole the heart of her sister’s fiancé, Emperor Franz Joseph. She then became Empress of Austria and Queen of

Vicky Crieps plays the older Sisi at Christmas in 1877

Hungary. She was a woman ahead of her time who indelibly made her mark with dignity and grace! Some of you may also remember the story of her son, Crown Prince Rudolph who died in a murder suicide together with his infamous lover Maria Vetsera. Her sister Duchess Sophie of Bavaria,

Florian Teichtmeister is emperor Franz Joseph in the movie

died in an accidental fire at the "Bazar de la Charité" in Paris which Netflix recently had a series about. Her 44 year long reign ended when she was killed by an anarchist in 1898 as The Hapsburgs were always hated for their evil imperialism. She was mostly remembered by her beauty and outstanding

The movie competes at Cannes Film Festival this month

glamour. She was obsessed with her looks and would spend hours riding and exercising every day in her private gymnasiums fitted with long mirrors. She even took up fencing at the age of 50. She also spent about three hours on hair care every day. She was famous around Europe for her extremely long tresses.

Marie Kreutzer both wrote and directed the movie

She also used daily massages and raw veal or crushed strawberries on her nightly leather facial mask! She bathed in cold water in the mornings and olive oil in the evenings.It is also believed that she had a bulimia as she was obsessed with weight, starving and then binge eating. She was just over 40kg in years before she died. 

 

1ST LOOK AT VICKY KRIEPS AS NEUROTIC EMPRESS SISI IN CORSAGE PERIOD SET MOVIE TEASER! TRAILER FOR HBO MAX'S NEW POST APOCALYPTIC TV SERIES STATION ELEVEN

  1ST CORSAGE PHOTO OF 

VICKY KRIEPS AS SISI 

Well, excuse me for being naughty, but she looks just as bad as the actresses in other two upcoming projects on Austrian empress Sisi (the one on Netflix, and TVNow) but you can see it for yourself in the first photo of Vicky

This period is when she started using drugs and chain smoking

Krieps in CORSAGE movie which covers a short period in the 19th century empress’ life around Christmas 1877 as she turns 40 and starts to question what her future holds as her renowned beauty starts to fade. Florian

The movie is in post production and will open sometime next year

Teichtmeister stars as Emperor Franz Joseph, Manuel Rubey as cousin and close friend Ludwig II, King of Bavaria and Katharina Lorenz as lady-in-waiting and confidante Marie Festetics. You can also check out a very bizarre and atmospheric teaser below:

 

   STATION ELEVEN TEASER   

FOR NEW HBO MAX SERIES

And it looks like a rather warm and unusual apocalyptic series indeed as you can see in the trailer for STATION ELEVEN a ten episode adaptation of the book of the same name which will air December 16th, as a post-apocalyptic

New ten episode drama arrives this December to HBO Max

saga spanning multiple timelines, which tells the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what’s been lost. Himesh Patel and Gael Garcia Bernal are in the cast.

PAULA BEER TO LEAD PERIOD SET DRAMA LADY NAZCA ABOUT INTRIGUING NAZCA LINES IN PERU! 1ST IMAGES OF VICKY KRIEPS AS EMPRESS SISI IN CORSAGE & CLAIRE DANES IN VICTORIAN SERIES ESSEX SERPENT

  LADY NAZCA MOVIE 

SENDS PAULA BEER TO PERU

European updates this weekend, starting with Screen Daily's report on Paula Beer and Guillaume Gallienne who will lead the English language biopic LADY NAZCA about German mathematician Maria Reiche who pioneered research into Peru’s mysterious Nazca lines in the 1940s, and then

Paula Beer will topline Lady Nazca period set drama

fought for their preservation throughout her life. The Nazca lines, a 50 square km area in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, are a mysterious group of geoglyphs, forming geometric designs and the shapes of birds and animals when viewed from the sky. Reiche first moved to Peru in the 1930s to work as a governess after studying mathematics and languages at university in her native city of Dresden. She became fascinated by the lines after a trip to the Nazca Desert in the early 1940s and made it her life’s mission to research their meaning and protect them. This passion brought with it trouble and danger but also give her a sense of peace. Gallienne will play her co-archaeologist Paul Kosok in the Damien Dorsaz helmed movie.

 1ST IMAGE OF VICKY KRIEPS 

AS EMPRESS SISI IN CORSAGE

Screen Daily has also published the first photo of Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Marie Kreutzer's movie CORSAGE. Shooting till July, the movie will depict the empress famous for her beauty during the short period of her life around Christmas 1877 when she

First Look at Vicky Krieps as Austrian vain empress Sisi

turned 40, an age considered old for women at the time. Florian Teichtmeister plays her husband Emperor Joseph, Manuel Rubey is cousin and close friend Ludwig II, King of Bavaria and Katharina Lorenz is lady-in-waiting and confidante Marie Festetics.

 1ST IMAGE OF CLAIRE DANES 

IN THE ESSEX SERPENT SERIES

Over in Britain, Claire Danes is shooting period set TV series for Apple TV + THE ESSEX SERPENT which is a small screen adaptation of  Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel about newly widowed Cora (Claire Danes) who, having

First look at Claire Danes in The Essex Serpent television series

being released from an abusive marriage, relocates in 1893 from Victorian London to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local

Claire Danes in Victorian garb at the set of the new series

superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area. The book itself won a number of awards back when it was published over in Britain.

VICKI KRIEPS TO LEAD 19TH CENTURY EPIC DRAMA CORSAGE ON AUSTRIA'S FAMOUS HABSBURG EMPRESS SISI!

  'CORSAGE' MOVIE CASTS

VICKY CRIESP AS EMPRESS SISI

Vicky Criesp will take the lead role

While we are waiting to hear any casting updates on the TV series adaptation of Allison Pataki's novel on famous Austrian empress Sisi which I informed you about last year, Cineuropa reports that we might get another project on the monarch. Austrian director Marie Kreutzer is preparing CORSAGE, a historical film that centres on Empress Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria. Set in 1877, the story will portray the monarch renowned for her beauty as she turns 40 and starts being considered an old woman. Luxembourg actress Vicky Crieps, whom you watched in Phantom Thread and in recent Das Boot series, is to play the lead role in the Austrian, German, Hungarian and French co-production.

  Dezzy's History Lesson
The story about Empress Elizabeth was already turned into Germany's most popular period set saga ever decades ago, since her story has always captivated audiences and readers around the globe following the girl who was unexpectedly thrust into

In her vanity, Sisi refused any portraits after age of 32

the centre of Europe’s most treacherous imperial court at the age of 15 when she unwittingly stole the heart of her sister’s fiancé, Emperor Franz Joseph. She then became Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. She was a woman ahead of her time who indelibly made her mark with dignity and grace! Some of you may also remember the story of her son, Crown Prince Rudolph who died in a murder suicide together with his infamous lover Maria Vetsera. Her sister Duchess Sophie of Bavaria, died in an accidental fire at the "Bazar de la Charité" in Paris which Netflix recently had a series about. Her 44 year long reign ended when she was killed by an anarchist in 1898 as The Hapsburgs were always hated for their evil imperialism. She was mostly remembered by her beauty and outstanding glamour. She was obsessed with her looks and would spend hours riding and exercising every day in her private gymnasiums fitted with long mirrors. She even took up fencing at the age of 50. She also spent about three hours on hair care every day. She was famous around Europe for her extremely long tresses. She also used daily massages and raw veal or crushed strawberries on her nightly leather facial mask! She bathed in cold water in the mornings and olive oil in the evenings.It is also believed that she had a bulimia as she was obsessed with weight, starving and then binge eating. She was just over 40kg in years before she died.