All Shades of Temptation

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Ernst Marischka

Cast

Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Runtime

3h 1m

Director

István Szabó

Cast

Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

Runtime

2h 32m

Director

István Szabó

Cast

Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Director

Emil Loteanu

Cast

Svetlana Toma, Grigore Grigoriu