Sisi - the fabulously wild empress who fell out of time - and met her death in Lucerne!
(D/CH 2023)
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What would you say if you were suddenly allowed to work for the most famous and most sought-after woman of your century? Travel around the world with her and have the chance to become her best friend? All this could be so beautiful. If you hadn't fallen madly in love with her. What a disaster.
That's how Countess Irma (Sandra Hüller) feels in SISI & ICH, the new feature film by Frauke Finsterwalder. Empress Sisi (Susanne Wolff) has reached the last half of her life. Irma finds her surrounded by women in a kind of aristocratic commune in Greece, a whole universe away from the etiquette of the Austrian court.
- Genre: Drama
- Shooting: 2021
- Release: World Premiere 19. Februar 2023 Berlinale - Release 30. März 2023
- News Film Commission Centralswitzerland
Production Info - Crew
- Regie: Frauke Finsterwalder
- Drehbuch: Frauke Finsterwalter und Christian Kracht
- Produktion: Walker+Worm, Philipp Worm, Tobias Walker
- Co-Produzentin Schweiz: C-Films AG, Anne Walser
- Kamera: Thomas Kiennast
- Szenenbild: Katharina Wöppermann
- Kostümbild: Tanja Hausner
- Maskenbild: Christina Baier, Marc Hollenstein
Cast
- Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich-Ungarn: Susanne Wolff
- Irma Gräfin von Sztáray: Sandra Hüller
- Graf von Berzeviczy: Stefan Kurt
- Erzherzog Viktor von Österreich: Georg Friedrich
- Fritzi: Sophie Hutter
- Marie: Maresi Riegner
- Gräfin Festetics: Johanna Wokalek
- Maria Gräfin von Sztáray: Sibylle Canonica
- Prinzessin Ludovika von Bayern: Angela Winkler
- Kaiser Franz Joseph: Markus Schleinzer
- Baronin Rothschild: Anne Müller
- Earl Spencer: Anthony Calf
- Captain Smythe: Tom Rhys Harries
- Queen Victoria: Annette Badland
- Doctor Bose: Ravi Aujla
- Nikolaus Romanow: Tom Lass
- Prinzessin Henriette Liechtenstein: Sandra Schwittau
- Athena: Hope Finsterwalder
- Haschisch Händler: Paul Portelli
- Empfangschef Algier: William Erazo Fernandez
Filming Locations Central Switzerland
- Nationalquai, Luzern
- Grand Hotel National, Luzern
- Carl Spitteler-Quai, Luzern
- St. Charles Hall, Meggen