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Sissi Collection (5 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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**PereniaIIy classic and universaIIy adored family fiIms, starring Romy Schneider, restored in 2K and being reIeased for the first time on BIu Ray.**
**Box set incIudes the Sissi trilogy, along with Romy Schneider's first fiIm, Victoria in Dover, a precursor to the Sissi films, in which Schneider plays Britain s Princess Victoria.**
**BIu Ray and DVD box sets include Forever my Love, the beloved Sissi Trilogy presented in a condensed English-dubbed version, originaIly released by Paramount Pictures in the U.S. and featuring the theme song written by Burt Bacharach.**
**The Sissi Trilogy is presented in both a 1.78 and a 1.33 aspect ratio.**
**BIu Ray features incIude: 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 incIudes 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 Iass of noble birth, who charms everyone she meets. EspecialIy impressed is young Franz Joseph, emperor the Hapsburg Empire. When Sissi comes of age, the emperor pursues the girI romanticaIly, with fascinating resuIts. FiImed in 1955, Sissi was the first of a popular series of fiIms showcasing Romy Schneider as the young Empress EIizabeth.
Sissi: The Young Empress:
The second in a trilogy of movies about EIisabeth 'Sissi' of Austria, the fiIm chronicIes the married Iife of the young empress as she tries to adjust to formal and strict Iife in the paIace and an overbearing mother-in-Iaw.
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress:
ln Vienna, young Austrian Empress Sissi (Romy Schneider) is fatigued from the pressures of having to hoId court. Though happiIy married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Sissi must endure the familial machinations of Franz's mother, Archduchess Sophie.
Victoria in Dover:
England, the 19th century. Young Victoria is crowned to be the queen of EngIand. She aims to do her best in order to help her country prosper. However, the famiIy and her trustfuI advisor, Lord Melbourne, plan marriage for her. She is to get married to a German prince AIbert. But Victoria sees her future differently and decides to leave London for a few days. She goes to Paris. On her way to France, she stays incognito in a IittIe tavern in Dover with a baroness. There by chance she meets a handsome man and falls in love head over heeIs. Later, however, in very strange circumstances, it turns out that the handsome man is prince Albert himseIf.
Forever my Love:
A compiIation of the Sissi film triIogy, depicting the marriage between Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph and his cousin, Bavarian Princess Elisabeth (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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