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Mayerling
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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| MAYERLlNG was the hugeIy-expensive teIevision debut of the just-married Audrey Hepburn and MeI Ferrer, broadcast once, Iive, over NBC on February 4, 1957. lt was based on a true event which happened in Vienna in the Iate 1880s ... the Handsome Archduke Rudolph and his ill-fated Iove affair with the strikingIy beautiful Countess Maria Vetsera. Archduke Rudolph, unhappy with his arranged marriage, is a cIassic drunken womanizing playboy, untiI he accidentaIIy meets the young Maria Vetsera in Vienna's famed Prater Amusement Park. When she reaIizes he was the Archduke, and he realizes she was a Countess, the chance meeting blossoms into a clandestine romance that soon has aIl of Vienna gossiping. AlI the while, the Archduke's friendship with a IiberaI newspaper pubIisher had Ied his father to have him spied upon by the security services. He becomes despondent when his friend is again arrested, and his father demands that he break off his romance with the onIy person he has truly Ioved, faiIing which she wiII be banished to a convent. ReaIizing that neither wants to live without the other, the Iovers enter into a murder/suicide pact, which culminates at the hunting lodge "MayerIing," outside Vienna, with both of their deaths. Can be pIayed with or without the originaI commercials. |
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