Mayerling is an episode of the American television series Producers' Showcase made for NBC Television, which was aired on 4 February 1957 and released theatrically as a film in Europe.
Ferrer and Hepburn were reportedly in negotiation for two and a half years to make the special. It was done live, except for some background footage shot in Vienna.
Mayerling is a small village (pop: 200) in Lower Austria belonging to the municipality of Alland in the district of Baden. It is situated on the Schwechat River, in the Wienerwald (Vienna woods), 15 miles (24km) southwest of Vienna. From 1550, it was in the possession of the abbey of Heiligenkreuz.
The Mayerling Incident
In 1886 Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, only son of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, acquired the manor and transformed it into a hunting lodge. It was in this hunting lodge that, on January 30, 1889, he was found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera, apparently as a result of suicide. Exactly what happened is unknown but on 31 July 2015 the Austrian National Library issued copies of Vetsera's letters of farewell to her mother and other family members. The letters - written in Mayerling shortly before the deaths - state clearly and unambiguously that Vetsera was preparing to commit suicide alongside Rudolf, out of "love".
The film began production in 1997 and was completed with the intention of being shown in American theaters. It was shown in twelve theaters across the United States and received generally positive reception from American critics.
Plot
Charlotte, a young woman, is abducted by Baron Meier Link, a vampire nobleman who is known not to harm humans needlessly. Charlotte's father hires D, a dhampir, to find her and kill her humanely if she turns into a vampire. At the same time, her older brother also hires the notorious Marcus brothers for backup. Among them is a woman named Leila, who hunts vampires because of a personal grudge rather than for monetary gain. The two parties (D and the Marcus brothers) race inexorably after Meier Link. However, Meier Link hires the mutant Barbarois; a group of lethal mercenary body guards. They consist of Caroline, a shape shifter; Benge, a shadow manipulator; and Machira, a werewolf.
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak who had previously directed the 1936 French film version of Mayerling. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kine...
published: 03 Apr 2014
MAYERLING (1957) AUDREY HEPBURN 1/5
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak who had previously directed the 1936 French film version of Mayerling. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kine...
published: 03 Apr 2014
(Mayerling) Waltz
Mayerling / 마이얼링 (1968): Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.
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published: 07 Jan 2020
MAYERLING (1957) AUDREY HEPBURN 5/5
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kinescope negative and released on our new "Mr. FAT-W Video" silver and blue label.
Read our MAYERLING press release:
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published: 03 Apr 2014
Mayerling(1968) - Who Wants To Live Forever
Video for the movie 'Mayerling'(1968), with Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve, using the song 'Who wants to live forever' by Queen. Further info will be added.
published: 23 Feb 2010
BABELSBERGER FREIHEITEN /DVD-Trailer
Filme der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen »Konrad Wolf« 1957 – 1990
Herausgeber: Ilka Brombach
Die Filme der HFF „Konrad Wolf“ (heute: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) sind ein weitgehend unbekannter Teil der Kinematografie der ehemaligen DDR. Dabei war die Filmhochschule in Babelsberg die einzige Ausbildungsstätte für ostdeutsche Filmschaffende, die von fast allen DEFA-Regisseuren, Kameramännern, Dramaturgen etc. durchlaufen wurde, und damit über Jahrzehnte Produktionsort studentischer Filme.
Eine Entdeckung sind die Filme jedoch nicht nur, weil unter ihnen die Frühwerke von Regisseuren wie Volker Koepp, Volker Koepp, Helke Misselwitz oder Andreas Dresen zu finden sind. Sondern auch, weil sie sich mit ihrer formalen Experimentierfreude und ihren Themen von vielen Filmen aus d...
published: 20 Aug 2018
Mayerling Incident
The Mayerling Incident is the series of events leading to the apparent murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889) and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera (19 March 1871 – 30 January 1889). Rudolf was the only son of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth, and heir to the throne of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Rudolf's mistress was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat at the Austrian court. The bodies of the 30-year-old Archduke and the 17-year-old baroness were discovered in the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods, fifteen miles southwest of the capital, on the morning of 30 January 1889.
The death of the crown prince had momentous consequences for the course of history in the nineteenth century. It had a...
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase ...
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak who had previously directed the 1936 French film version of Mayerling. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kinescope negative and released on our new "Mr. FAT-W Video" silver and blue label.
Read our MAYERLING press release:
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/post/56530954701/mayerling-1957-dvd-release
Connect with Films Around the World, Inc. (Mr.FAT-W):
http://filmsaroundtheworld.com/
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MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak who had previously directed the 1936 French film version of Mayerling. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kinescope negative and released on our new "Mr. FAT-W Video" silver and blue label.
Read our MAYERLING press release:
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/post/56530954701/mayerling-1957-dvd-release
Connect with Films Around the World, Inc. (Mr.FAT-W):
http://filmsaroundtheworld.com/
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/MrFATWVideo/
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase ...
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak who had previously directed the 1936 French film version of Mayerling. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kinescope negative and released on our new "Mr. FAT-W Video" silver and blue label.
Read our MAYERLING press release:
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/post/56530954701/mayerling-1957-dvd-release
Connect with Films Around the World, Inc. (Mr.FAT-W):
http://filmsaroundtheworld.com/
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/MrFATWVideo/
https://www.facebook.com/Mayerling1957DVD
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak who had previously directed the 1936 French film version of Mayerling. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kinescope negative and released on our new "Mr. FAT-W Video" silver and blue label.
Read our MAYERLING press release:
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/post/56530954701/mayerling-1957-dvd-release
Connect with Films Around the World, Inc. (Mr.FAT-W):
http://filmsaroundtheworld.com/
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/MrFATWVideo/
https://www.facebook.com/Mayerling1957DVD
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase ...
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kinescope negative and released on our new "Mr. FAT-W Video" silver and blue label.
Read our MAYERLING press release:
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/post/56530954701/mayerling-1957-dvd-release
Connect with Films Around the World, Inc. (Mr.FAT-W):
http://filmsaroundtheworld.com/
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/MrFATWVideo/
https://www.facebook.com/Mayerling1957DVD
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kinescope negative and released on our new "Mr. FAT-W Video" silver and blue label.
Read our MAYERLING press release:
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/post/56530954701/mayerling-1957-dvd-release
Connect with Films Around the World, Inc. (Mr.FAT-W):
http://filmsaroundtheworld.com/
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/MrFATWVideo/
https://www.facebook.com/Mayerling1957DVD
Video for the movie 'Mayerling'(1968), with Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve, using the song 'Who wants to live forever' by Queen. Further info will be added.
Video for the movie 'Mayerling'(1968), with Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve, using the song 'Who wants to live forever' by Queen. Further info will be added.
Video for the movie 'Mayerling'(1968), with Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve, using the song 'Who wants to live forever' by Queen. Further info will be added.
Filme der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen »Konrad Wolf« 1957 – 1990
Herausgeber: Ilka Brombach
Die Filme der HFF „Konrad Wolf“ (heute: Filmuniversität Babe...
Filme der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen »Konrad Wolf« 1957 – 1990
Herausgeber: Ilka Brombach
Die Filme der HFF „Konrad Wolf“ (heute: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) sind ein weitgehend unbekannter Teil der Kinematografie der ehemaligen DDR. Dabei war die Filmhochschule in Babelsberg die einzige Ausbildungsstätte für ostdeutsche Filmschaffende, die von fast allen DEFA-Regisseuren, Kameramännern, Dramaturgen etc. durchlaufen wurde, und damit über Jahrzehnte Produktionsort studentischer Filme.
Eine Entdeckung sind die Filme jedoch nicht nur, weil unter ihnen die Frühwerke von Regisseuren wie Volker Koepp, Volker Koepp, Helke Misselwitz oder Andreas Dresen zu finden sind. Sondern auch, weil sie sich mit ihrer formalen Experimentierfreude und ihren Themen von vielen Filmen aus den Studios unterscheiden. Den Hintergrund dafür bildet der relative Freiraum, den die HFF damals bot. Die Studenten hatten Zugang zu Filmen aus der gesamten Filmgeschichte und dem aktuellen Filmgeschehen in Ost- und Westeuropa. Der italienische Neorealismus, die Neuen Wellen und die verschiedenen europäischen Dokumentarfilmbewegungen wurden hier rezipiert und als Orientierung für die eigene Arbeit benutzt. Gleichwohl gab es an der HFF auch Zensur, ein Set formaler und inhaltlicher Vorgaben, das die Studenten mit ihren Filmen erfüllten, oder aber – z.B. im Falle der Verbotsfilme –unterliefen.
weitere Informationen unter: https://absolutmedien.de/film/8024/BABELSBERGER+FREIHEITEN+Filme+der+Hochschule+fuer+Film+und+Fernsehen+%C2%BBKonrad+Wolf%C2%AB++1957+%E2%80%93+1990
Filme der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen »Konrad Wolf« 1957 – 1990
Herausgeber: Ilka Brombach
Die Filme der HFF „Konrad Wolf“ (heute: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) sind ein weitgehend unbekannter Teil der Kinematografie der ehemaligen DDR. Dabei war die Filmhochschule in Babelsberg die einzige Ausbildungsstätte für ostdeutsche Filmschaffende, die von fast allen DEFA-Regisseuren, Kameramännern, Dramaturgen etc. durchlaufen wurde, und damit über Jahrzehnte Produktionsort studentischer Filme.
Eine Entdeckung sind die Filme jedoch nicht nur, weil unter ihnen die Frühwerke von Regisseuren wie Volker Koepp, Volker Koepp, Helke Misselwitz oder Andreas Dresen zu finden sind. Sondern auch, weil sie sich mit ihrer formalen Experimentierfreude und ihren Themen von vielen Filmen aus den Studios unterscheiden. Den Hintergrund dafür bildet der relative Freiraum, den die HFF damals bot. Die Studenten hatten Zugang zu Filmen aus der gesamten Filmgeschichte und dem aktuellen Filmgeschehen in Ost- und Westeuropa. Der italienische Neorealismus, die Neuen Wellen und die verschiedenen europäischen Dokumentarfilmbewegungen wurden hier rezipiert und als Orientierung für die eigene Arbeit benutzt. Gleichwohl gab es an der HFF auch Zensur, ein Set formaler und inhaltlicher Vorgaben, das die Studenten mit ihren Filmen erfüllten, oder aber – z.B. im Falle der Verbotsfilme –unterliefen.
weitere Informationen unter: https://absolutmedien.de/film/8024/BABELSBERGER+FREIHEITEN+Filme+der+Hochschule+fuer+Film+und+Fernsehen+%C2%BBKonrad+Wolf%C2%AB++1957+%E2%80%93+1990
The Mayerling Incident is the series of events leading to the apparent murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889) and h...
The Mayerling Incident is the series of events leading to the apparent murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889) and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera (19 March 1871 – 30 January 1889). Rudolf was the only son of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth, and heir to the throne of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Rudolf's mistress was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat at the Austrian court. The bodies of the 30-year-old Archduke and the 17-year-old baroness were discovered in the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods, fifteen miles southwest of the capital, on the morning of 30 January 1889.
The death of the crown prince had momentous consequences for the course of history in the nineteenth century. It had a devastating effect on the already compromised marriage of the Imperial couple and interrupted the security inherent in the immediate line of Habsburg dynastic succession. As Rudolf had no son, the succession would pass to Franz Joseph's brother, Karl Ludwig and his issue, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This destabilization endangered the growing reconciliation between the Austrian and the Hungarian factions of the empire, which became a catalyst of the developments that led to the assassination of the Archduke and his wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip, a Yugoslav nationalist and ethnic Serb at Sarajevo in June 1914 and the subsequent drift into the First World War.
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The Mayerling Incident is the series of events leading to the apparent murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889) and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera (19 March 1871 – 30 January 1889). Rudolf was the only son of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth, and heir to the throne of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Rudolf's mistress was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat at the Austrian court. The bodies of the 30-year-old Archduke and the 17-year-old baroness were discovered in the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods, fifteen miles southwest of the capital, on the morning of 30 January 1889.
The death of the crown prince had momentous consequences for the course of history in the nineteenth century. It had a devastating effect on the already compromised marriage of the Imperial couple and interrupted the security inherent in the immediate line of Habsburg dynastic succession. As Rudolf had no son, the succession would pass to Franz Joseph's brother, Karl Ludwig and his issue, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This destabilization endangered the growing reconciliation between the Austrian and the Hungarian factions of the empire, which became a catalyst of the developments that led to the assassination of the Archduke and his wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip, a Yugoslav nationalist and ethnic Serb at Sarajevo in June 1914 and the subsequent drift into the First World War.
This video is targeted to blind users.
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MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak who had previously directed the 1936 French film version of Mayerling. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kinescope negative and released on our new "Mr. FAT-W Video" silver and blue label.
Read our MAYERLING press release:
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/post/56530954701/mayerling-1957-dvd-release
Connect with Films Around the World, Inc. (Mr.FAT-W):
http://filmsaroundtheworld.com/
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/MrFATWVideo/
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak who had previously directed the 1936 French film version of Mayerling. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kinescope negative and released on our new "Mr. FAT-W Video" silver and blue label.
Read our MAYERLING press release:
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/post/56530954701/mayerling-1957-dvd-release
Connect with Films Around the World, Inc. (Mr.FAT-W):
http://filmsaroundtheworld.com/
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/MrFATWVideo/
https://www.facebook.com/Mayerling1957DVD
MAYERLING starring AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER is available on DVD for the first time ever on our new Mr.FAT-W Video silver and blue label. You can purchase this film at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/Mayerling-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/B00D8N92B4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396485187&sr=8-1&keywords=Mayerling)
This 1957 television "spectacular" starred real life just-married AUDREY HEPBURN and MEL FERRER in their television premiere -- the first of their two "on screen" appearances together. This hugely-expensive LIVE television production was broadcast just once, over NBC, on February 24, 1957. The primitive archival film copy has been digitally mastered from the original kinescope negative and released on our new "Mr. FAT-W Video" silver and blue label.
Read our MAYERLING press release:
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/post/56530954701/mayerling-1957-dvd-release
Connect with Films Around the World, Inc. (Mr.FAT-W):
http://filmsaroundtheworld.com/
http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/MrFATWVideo/
https://www.facebook.com/Mayerling1957DVD
Video for the movie 'Mayerling'(1968), with Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve, using the song 'Who wants to live forever' by Queen. Further info will be added.
Filme der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen »Konrad Wolf« 1957 – 1990
Herausgeber: Ilka Brombach
Die Filme der HFF „Konrad Wolf“ (heute: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) sind ein weitgehend unbekannter Teil der Kinematografie der ehemaligen DDR. Dabei war die Filmhochschule in Babelsberg die einzige Ausbildungsstätte für ostdeutsche Filmschaffende, die von fast allen DEFA-Regisseuren, Kameramännern, Dramaturgen etc. durchlaufen wurde, und damit über Jahrzehnte Produktionsort studentischer Filme.
Eine Entdeckung sind die Filme jedoch nicht nur, weil unter ihnen die Frühwerke von Regisseuren wie Volker Koepp, Volker Koepp, Helke Misselwitz oder Andreas Dresen zu finden sind. Sondern auch, weil sie sich mit ihrer formalen Experimentierfreude und ihren Themen von vielen Filmen aus den Studios unterscheiden. Den Hintergrund dafür bildet der relative Freiraum, den die HFF damals bot. Die Studenten hatten Zugang zu Filmen aus der gesamten Filmgeschichte und dem aktuellen Filmgeschehen in Ost- und Westeuropa. Der italienische Neorealismus, die Neuen Wellen und die verschiedenen europäischen Dokumentarfilmbewegungen wurden hier rezipiert und als Orientierung für die eigene Arbeit benutzt. Gleichwohl gab es an der HFF auch Zensur, ein Set formaler und inhaltlicher Vorgaben, das die Studenten mit ihren Filmen erfüllten, oder aber – z.B. im Falle der Verbotsfilme –unterliefen.
weitere Informationen unter: https://absolutmedien.de/film/8024/BABELSBERGER+FREIHEITEN+Filme+der+Hochschule+fuer+Film+und+Fernsehen+%C2%BBKonrad+Wolf%C2%AB++1957+%E2%80%93+1990
The Mayerling Incident is the series of events leading to the apparent murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889) and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera (19 March 1871 – 30 January 1889). Rudolf was the only son of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth, and heir to the throne of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Rudolf's mistress was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat at the Austrian court. The bodies of the 30-year-old Archduke and the 17-year-old baroness were discovered in the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods, fifteen miles southwest of the capital, on the morning of 30 January 1889.
The death of the crown prince had momentous consequences for the course of history in the nineteenth century. It had a devastating effect on the already compromised marriage of the Imperial couple and interrupted the security inherent in the immediate line of Habsburg dynastic succession. As Rudolf had no son, the succession would pass to Franz Joseph's brother, Karl Ludwig and his issue, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This destabilization endangered the growing reconciliation between the Austrian and the Hungarian factions of the empire, which became a catalyst of the developments that led to the assassination of the Archduke and his wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip, a Yugoslav nationalist and ethnic Serb at Sarajevo in June 1914 and the subsequent drift into the First World War.
This video is targeted to blind users.
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Mayerling is an episode of the American television series Producers' Showcase made for NBC Television, which was aired on 4 February 1957 and released theatrically as a film in Europe.
Ferrer and Hepburn were reportedly in negotiation for two and a half years to make the special. It was done live, except for some background footage shot in Vienna.