
85 minutes
2/4/1957
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.

Audrey Hepburn
as Countess Marie Vetsera

Mel Ferrer
as Crown Prince Rudolph

Raymond Massey
as The Prime Minister

Basil Sydney
as The Emperor Franz Joseph

Diana Wynyard
as The Empress Elizabeth

Judith Evelyn
as Countess Larische

Isobel Elsom
as Baroness Vetsera

Nehemiah Persoff
as Police Officer

Lorne Greene
as Emperor's Aide

David Opatoshu
as Police Officer

Ian Wolfe
as Loschek

Monique van Vooren
as Marinka

John McGovern
as Szeps
David Atkinson
as Philip of Coeburg

Nancy Marchand
as Princess Stephanie

Michael Evans
as Hoyos

Berry Kroeger
as Headwaiter

Pippa Scott
as Hanna Vetsera

Laurinda Barrett
as Marie's Cousin

Iggie Wolfington
as a Drummer

Francis Compton
as Prater Waiter
Ann Dere
as Nurse
Nat Norbet
as Puppeteer