Mayerling

Overview

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.

Director: Anatole Litvak

Cast

Audrey Hepburn

Countess Marie Vetsera

Mel Ferrer

Crown Prince Rudolph

Raymond Massey

The Prime Minister

Basil Sydney

The Emperor Franz Joseph

Diana Wynyard

The Empress Elizabeth

Judith Evelyn

Countess Larische

Isobel Elsom

Baroness Vetsera

Nehemiah Persoff

Police Officer

Lorne Greene

Emperor's Aide

David Opatoshu

Police Officer