The life story of Empress Elisabeth, better known as Sissi, has fascinated generations since time immemorial. With her elaborate braided hairstyles complete with white flower decorations, she is still the ideal of beauty and a female icon today. In Ernst Marischka's Austrian historical film, she was heartbreakingly embodied by Romy Schneider. It is not surprising that the legendary actress, especially as Sissi, is as touching today as she was then: Both women won millions of hearts, had to cope with great fame at a young age, and had to fight their way away from the public eye.
Now the original 1955 film can be experienced for the first time in the concert hall. While the full-length film is gloriously shown on the big screen, a symphony orchestra plays the music live and perfectly synchronized to the action on the screen. Against the splendid backdrop of the Habsburg monarchy and accompanied by Anton Profes' yearning sounds, the young love of Sissi (played by the incomparable Romy Schneider) and her gallant emperor Franz Joseph I. finds its way towards a new life. (Karlheinz Böhm) finds each other in defiance of parental principles and courtly regulations.
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