A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
Vicky Krieps
as Empress Elisabeth
Florian Teichtmeister
as Franz Josef
Katharina Lorenz
as Marie Festetics
Jeanne Werner
as Ida Ferenczy
Alma Hasun
as Fanny Feifalik
Finnegan Oldfield
as Louis Le Prince
Manuel Rubey
as Ludwig II
Aaron Friesz
as Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
Colin Morgan
as Bay Middleton
Tamás Lengyel
as Gyula Andrássy
Ivana Urban
as Mrs. Andrássy
Alexander Pschill
as Georg Raab, Painter of the Court