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SISSI MOVIES AND THE REALITY - INTRODUCTION 1
Káli-Rozmis BarbaraSISSI MOVIES AND THE REALITY - 2015.04.27. 12:55
SISSI MOVIES AND THE REALITY - INTRODUCTION
The 1950s Sissi Movies still enjoy a high popularity. Anybody who sees the film can get to know the adventurous encounter of Elisabeth, Duchess of Bavaria and Emperor Franz Joseph, which ends up with a marriage, and one can think that it was love at the first sight. According to the movie, the young Sisi catches not a fish but the Emperor of Austria himself at the riverside while fishing! A very funny and entertaining scene but it has not much to do with the reality. However, the story that the Emperor fell in love with the young girl at first sight and due to this he was brave enough to confront her beloved mother, Archduchess Sophie - for the first time - is the plain fact.
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The 1950s Sissi Movies still enjoy a high popularity. Anybody who sees the film can get to know the adventurous encounter of Elisabeth, Duchess of Bavaria and Emperor Franz Joseph, which ends up with a marriage, and one can think that it is love at the first sight.
Romy Schneider as Sissi
According to the movie, the young Sisi catches not a fish but the Emperor of Austria himself at the riverside while fishing! A very funny and entertaining scene but it has not much to do with the reality. However, the story that the Emperor fell in love with the young girl at first sight and due to this he was brave enough to confront her beloved mother, Archduchess Sophie - for the first time - is the plain fact.
Ernst Marischka’s Sissi films reflect the taste of the Austrian public at the 1950s. The aim of the trilogy was to make the audience forget about the horrors of the Second World War while watching it. Since then it has been one of the most successful German-speaking film in the world.
Sissi (1955) is the first part of a trilogy which is followed by a second one, Sissi - The Young Empress in 1956 and a third one, Sissi - Fateful Years of an Empress in 1957. The three films have little to do with the historical reality, the first one has slightly more than the subsequent two. Even if the main facts are proper, if somewhat incomplete, the chronological order is completely disrupted, especially in the subsequent two movies.
Sissi was first broadcast in the Austrian cinemas on 22 December 1955. In Hungary, this popular cult trilogy is on one of the Hungarian TV channels every Christmas, remembering unwittingly of Elisabeth's birthday since the Bavarian princess was born on 24 December in 1837. One can calculate that at the date of the meeting (August,1853) Sisi was not much more than fifteen and a half years old.
Many after seeing the film starring Romy Schneider when have a look at a painting or a photograph of Elisabeth say "she was not as beautiful as in the movie!" This might be true, at least as far as the young Sisi is concerned. Elisabeth did not consider herself as a beauty at this time and the first years of their marriage either. When her mother, Ludovica, informed her that it was her and not Helene, her elder sister, who the Emperor wanted to marry, she was extremely surprised and said, "I do not understand at all how the Emperor could think of me? I am so young and insignificant. "
Sissi (Romy Schneider) and Sisi (Empress Elisabeth)
This paper is not written in order to caricature the movie Sissi which is loved by many (even by the author of this article) but to familiarize the readers with Sisi and tell them how the things really happened ...
To analyse the historical events and the scenes of the film let us turn for help to one of the most authoritative bibliographers of Elisabeth, Brigitte Hamann (the title of her book is Queen Elisabeth). Besides, let us use and read four other books, two of which I also quotes: Count Egon Corti Elisabeth and Jean des Cars Sisi or the Destiny.
First, let us start where the story began...
To be continued...
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