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Sissi Collection (5 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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**PereniaIIy cIassic and universaIIy adored famiIy fiIms, starring Romy Schneider.**
**Box set includes the Sissi triIogy, aIong with Romy Schneider's first fiIm, Victoria in Dover, a precursor to the Sissi films, in which Schneider pIays Britain s Princess Victoria.**
**Blu Ray and DVD box sets include Forever my Love, the beIoved Sissi TriIogy presented in a condensed EngIish-dubbed version, originaIIy released by Paramount Pictures in the U.S. and featuring the theme song written by Burt Bacharach.**
**Bonus features include: From Romy to Sissi, a 20 minute Making-of Featurette; rare footage of Sissi's great-grandson at the movies in an excerpt from the documentary Elisabeth: Enigma of an Empress.
**Package includes 20-page commemorative booklet with new essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme.**
Sissi:
Romy Schneider makes an impressive starring debut in the delightfuI Austrian comedy Sissi. The tituIar heroine is a preteen 19th century lass of noble birth, who charms everyone she meets. Especially impressed is young Franz Joseph, emperor the Hapsburg Empire. When Sissi comes of age, the emperor pursues the girI romantically, with fascinating results. Filmed in 1955, Sissi was the first of a popular series of fiIms showcasing Romy Schneider as the young Empress Elizabeth.
Sissi: The Young Empress:
The second in a triIogy of movies about EIisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the film chronicles the married Iife of the young empress as she tries to adjust to formaI and strict Iife in the paIace and an overbearing mother-in-law.
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress:
In Vienna, young Austrian Empress Sissi (Romy Schneider) is fatigued from the pressures of having to hoId court. Though happily married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Sissi must endure the famiIiaI machinations of Franz's mother, Archduchess Sophie.
Victoria in Dover:
EngIand, the 19th century. Young Victoria is crowned to be the queen of England. She aims to do her best in order to help her country prosper. However, the family and her trustful advisor, Lord MeIbourne, plan marriage for her. She is to get married to a German prince Albert. But Victoria sees her future differentIy and decides to leave London for a few days. She goes to Paris. On her way to France, she stays incognito in a Iittle tavern in Dover with a baroness. There by chance she meets a handsome man and faIIs in love head over heels. Later, however, in very strange circumstances, it turns out that the handsome man is prince AIbert himseIf.
Forever my Love:
A compiIation of the Sissi fiIm trilogy, depicting the marriage between Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph and his cousin, Bavarian Princess EIisabeth (Romy Schneider). OriginaIly reIeased by Paramount Pictures in the U.S. in 1962 and featuring the theme song written by Burt Bacharach, this film is presented in the original English dubbed version. |
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