Released:
1992-09-03

Overview:
The show opens in the "world of the dead", where Luigi Lucheni is being interrogated by a Judge as to why he has murdered the Empress Elisabeth. Lucheni claims that he did no more than what Elisabeth herself wanted, since all her life Elisabeth has been in love with Death himself – and vice versa. As his witnesses, Lucheni brings back the dead aristocracy of the bygone era and takes us to the past, where he serves as a sarcastic narrator of the events that lead to the transformation of the sweet and innocent Sisi to the revered and infamous Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, and her decline through later years until her assassination.

Director:
Harry Kupfer

Runtime:
2h 7min

Genre:
Drama, Music

• Cast:
• 
  Pia Douwes
  as
  Elisabeth (Sisi)
• 
  Uwe Kröger
  as
  Der Tod
• 
  Ethan Freeman
  as
  Luigi Lucheni
• 
  Viktor Gernot
  as
  Kaiser Franz Joseph I.
• 
  Else Ludwig
  as
  Erzhherzogin Sophie