Beside TVNOW's
Sisi series and
Corsage movie with
Vicky Krieps, I told you that we will also be getting a third project on famous Austrian
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The Empress should stream next spring
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empress Sisi as
Netflix is shooting six part series
THE EMPRESS as one of their new German originals and today I have first photos for you from the production that started earlier this month. The series will depict Sisi’s life from her teenage years onwards, when she first met Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria Hungary, and
Devrim Lingnau and
Philip Froissant will play the imperial couple. When the rebellious Elisabeth meets Franz, the Emperor of Austria, in 1853 the young couple's intoxicating love completely upsets the power structure at the Viennese court. After the wedding, the young empress must assert herself not only against her mother in law, the sovereign, power hungry Sophie, but also against Franz's brother Maxi, who himself
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Philip Froissant and Devrim Lingnau are Franz und Sisi
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longs for the throne (and for Sisi). As enemy troops form up on the borders of the Habsburg Empire, people in Vienna rise up in protest against the emperor. Elisabeth must find out who she can trust and how high the price is to be a
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Both The Empress and Sisi will air in six hourlong episodes
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true empress and a figure of hope for the people. While her contemporaries considered her kitschy and vain, Sisi got a whole cult of fans after she was stabbed to death in Geneva in 1898. Kinda like today's rock stars.
Meanwhile, check out two new photos from the rival series to the Netflix' one, which will also have six episodes but will air first as The Empress above is scheduled for next spring and
SISI for the end of the year. The lead
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Desiree Nosbusch is glamorous ArchDuchess Sophie
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cast includes
Dominique Devenport as Sisi, and
Jannik Schümann as emperor Franz.The series, which will air on ORF in Austria, RTL's streamer TVNOW in Germany and TF1 in France and is produced by Beta Film, will also
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Six part Sisi should arrive sometime at the end of the year
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star
Désirée Nosbusch as Archduchess Sophie, Franz's mother,
Tanja Schleiff as Countess Esterhazy,
Paula Kober as Fanny,
Julia Stemberger as Sisi's mother, Duchess Ludovika, and
Giovanni Funiati as Count Andrassy.
