Sisi (RTL, 2022)

At the end of the first series, Sisi promised her friend Fanny that she would take care of her daughter Marie. At the beginning of the second series, Sisi takes Marie out of school and lets her live in court. Marie is a totally ungrateful brat. However, I still enjoy watching her interacting with Franz

Jan Žižka (Medieval, 2022)

The Hussite movement is one of the Czech schools’ least popular topics in history classes. Many battles, military leaders, and parties fighting for their truth in the religious question are not very attractive from today’s point of view. The movie Medieval by Petr Jákl is attractive. Provided that we ignore the basic historical facts and

The Empress (Netlix, 2022)

The fame of Netflix has put all the Sisi movies and TV shows on the back burner, causing there to be nothing between Romy Schneider’s Sissi and the Empress. It is clever. The works follow one concept – dating, marriage, children, and independence. Netflix is sticking with the first two points (so we can expect

Sisi (2009)

For many people, Romy Schneider will remain the only Sisi. Films with her are so charming that some see no reason to make more and more versions. In 2009, Italian actress Cristiana Capotondi took on the role of the Austrian Empress.

Sisi (2021)

A series produced by RTL and ORF was broadcast at the end of 2021 and the next series is being filmed. The main couple has been portrayed by Dominique Davenport and Jannik Schümann. At the first sight, this series is visually excellent. Sisi’s wig resembles the real Empress and the young Emperor came to life

Corsage

This Sisi movie had a fantastic start. The world premiere of Corsage took place on the 20th of May 2022 at the Cannes Film Festival and Vicky Krieps, who played Empress Elisabeth, won the Un Certain Regard Best Performance Prize.

Geliebter Johann, Geliebte Anna

The mountain scenery of Austrian Styria (Steiermark) witnessed the love of a Habsburg archduke and a daughter of a commoner (a postmaster in this case) long before the morganatic love was fashionable at the end of the 19th century.

Who could have met Sissi?

The first Sissi movie with Romy Schneider was released in 1955. The main young actress stole the show but she had there few older colleagues who were born in the time of monarchy and some of them could have seen the real Sisi.

Matilda (Матильда, 2017)

The Russian historical movies are colourful with many fascinating costumes and perfect makeup and hairstyling. That’s the case with Matilda too. It tells the story of the relationship between Nicholas II of Russia and ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska. When a Russian grand duke wanted a mistress, he usually found this woman among ballerinas. When a Russian

The King (2019)

The main hero in the Netflix King is Henry V. I met him only as a supporting character in historical fictions about his wife Catherine of Valois. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984766/ Unfortunately, this movie is based on several Shakespeare’s plays, therefore we can’t count with historical accuracy. However, it is much worse than the usual inaccuracy in plays.