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Mayerling
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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| MAYERLlNG was the hugeIy-expensive television debut of the just-married Audrey Hepburn and MeI Ferrer, broadcast once, Iive, over NBC on February 4, 1957. It was based on a true event which happened in Vienna in the late 1880s ... the Handsome Archduke RudoIph and his ill-fated love affair with the strikingIy beautiful Countess Maria Vetsera. Archduke RudoIph, unhappy with his arranged marriage, is a classic drunken womanizing playboy, untiI he accidentally meets the young Maria Vetsera in Vienna's famed Prater Amusement Park. When she realizes he was the Archduke, and he reaIizes she was a Countess, the chance meeting blossoms into a clandestine romance that soon has alI of Vienna gossiping. AlI the while, the Archduke's friendship with a IiberaI newspaper pubIisher had led 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 played with or without the original commerciaIs. |
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