Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
Audrey Hepburn
as Countess Marie Vetsera
Mel Ferrer
as Crown Prince Rudolph
Raymond Massey
as The Prime Minister
Basil Sydney
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
Diana Wynyard
as The Empress Elizabeth
Judith Evelyn
as Countess Larische
Isobel Elsom
as Baroness Vetsera
Nehemiah Persoff
as Police Officer
Lorne Greene
as Emperor's Aide
David Opatoshu
as Police Officer
Ian Wolfe
as Loschek
Monique van Vooren
as Marinka
