Word: chotek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unreeled, Mayerling to Sarajevo retells, sometimes haltingly but always compassionately, the heckled romance of Franz Ferdinand (John Lodge), heir to Franz Josef's Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Sophie Chotek (Edwige Feuillere), his morganatic Czech wife. Its numerous revelations of Austrian pre-war court life, quite familiar now to fans long exposed to the Viennese nobility, seem new only in a simpler, more personalized view of Franz Josef (Jean Worms), the scheming Prince Montenuovo (Aime Clariond) and other appendages of the state and social hierarchy. But historically, the film-a logical sequel to 1937's teary, highly successful Mayerling...
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