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Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera. Starring: Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice, Geneviève Page, Andréa Parisy, Ivan Desny.
Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera. Starring: Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice, Geneviève Page, Andréa Parisy, Ivan Desny.
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00:00:00The End
00:00:30And yet these seem to be the same people who wanted to break up the empire, bring down the Habsburgs.
00:00:57No, Highness. They are mostly wearing the colors of Austria. To them, the monarchy is an institution.
00:01:02You mean Franz Josef has become one?
00:01:05These Hungarian risings that Caroli talked about, I hope they don't mean violence.
00:01:11A revolution is not often made without a certain loss of blood.
00:01:14On live the crown, Prince.
00:01:19On live the Emperor.
00:01:26On live the Emperor.
00:01:28The disturbance up front, sir. I was worried.
00:01:51Thank you, Rudolf. It is a thoughtfulness that I appreciate because so unexpected.
00:01:56I don't see why not, sir.
00:01:59Today I'm on duty. Surely I was only doing what any Habsburg would.
00:02:02No, Rudolf. Today you behaved as I'd hoped a son of mine would behave.
00:02:12Thank you, Rudolf.
00:02:27Oh, and thank you, my dear, for that wonderful piece of art.
00:02:36You should thank Rudolf, Your Majesty.
00:02:39He would never allow me to choose anything.
00:02:42And please also thank Ertse for her delicious letter.
00:02:45Of course, I shall probably spend it till next anniversary trying to decipher it,
00:02:49but the thought was highly gratifying.
00:02:55Rudolf, don't go for a moment.
00:03:06I want to tell you how deeply I appreciated your gesture of protection this afternoon.
00:03:12As your father, I would like to try to know you better.
00:03:18Your friend, the Prince of Wales, have you profited by his visit?
00:03:22Profited?
00:03:23By any advice that he may have given you.
00:03:27So, Count Taffa has his spies even at Zacher's at my private parties.
00:03:34It was Edward, your friend, who spoke to me. He's sincerely worried about you.
00:03:39Edward's private life hardly entitles him to preach.
00:03:41I'm not referring to your private life.
00:03:44Although it may ease your mind to know that I have no objection to your actress friend.
00:03:50It may ease your mind, sir, to know that I have no objection to your actress friend.
00:03:57It was your public life I wished to discuss.
00:03:59My public life consists of receptions, balls, charity, galas, duties that a dressed up dummy could perform.
00:04:05I should be learning the business of government.
00:04:07I should be there when you consult with your ministers.
00:04:10When you learn to moderate your views, you will be welcome to join us.
00:04:13Am I to suppress what I sincerely believe?
00:04:16Let me give you a father's, not an emperor's advice.
00:04:20Don't trust the people.
00:04:22Among the people there are certain enlightened minds, but the people are a mob.
00:04:27The same mob who stormed this very palace when I was a boy, just eight years old.
00:04:33The same mob who killed my great aunt, Marie Antoinette.
00:04:37These are your people, the people you wish to allow to govern themselves.
00:04:41You look at these countries, these enlightened countries like America and France, and you wonder at the humbug of it.
00:04:50The republican countries still wage wars, they're poor, still poor, they're rich, become richer.
00:04:57And their police and their judges are the cheapest that money can buy.
00:05:04You're listening?
00:05:06I'm listening.
00:05:08I'm not agreeing.
00:05:10To maintain supreme power, you must recognize the responsibilities of power.
00:05:15Power?
00:05:17You hold it like a miser.
00:05:19Here I sit heir to the thrones of Austria and Hungary and no more than a political eunuch.
00:05:26How would you like to be Inspector General?
00:05:28Why, the most I could hope for was to get command of the Second Corps.
00:05:38Count Taffy is preparing your promotion to the rank of full general, with a formal commission as inspector of all the royal and imperial forces inside the Empire.
00:05:47For once I have nothing to say.
00:05:49You will have to travel a great deal, visiting the various units. Your first duty will be to represent me at Prague, for the maneuvers with the Seventh Army.
00:06:00Father.
00:06:02Father.
00:06:04You are pleased?
00:06:06And grateful.
00:06:08Well, I won't keep you. I'll be expecting you to open the dancing.
00:06:15Until Count Taffy, if I'd like to speak to it.
00:06:18I'll speak to it.
00:06:41Your Majesty.
00:06:42She's different from the others, this young woman.
00:06:46So different that I think everything should be done to arrange her marriage to Duke Michael of Braganza.
00:06:52Portugal owes me something. I helped him with his claims in Brazil.
00:06:55And the family, you see, I don't know.
00:06:58You wouldn't, Majesty. But rich. Immensely rich.
00:07:01Cosmopolitan and much-traveled.
00:07:03We must see if we can arrange something.
00:07:05Otherwise, the family may have to start their rich cosmopolitan travels all over again.
00:07:19Fire!
00:07:21Fire!
00:07:23Any gun looks impressive when it fires blank and makes a lot of noise.
00:07:27What is its maximum elevation?
00:07:29What's the maximum elevation on this gun?
00:07:32We are proposing to manufacture this gun and to know one simple and important fact we have to ask a sergeant.
00:07:51This is something I find far too often.
00:07:53Either the sergeant should be promoted or we ourselves, gentlemen, should take a course in gunnery.
00:07:57These guns should be properly ordered. Soldiers should be taught how to use them.
00:08:20You can note that the horses are not well looked after.
00:08:45I see only one advantage
00:09:15in providing our army
00:09:16with out-of-date maps.
00:09:18If they fall in the hands of the enemy,
00:09:20they'll mislead them too.
00:09:22General,
00:09:23all maps of frontier areas
00:09:25are to be revised
00:09:26and all officers examined
00:09:29in map reading.
00:09:32Party!
00:09:41His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Rudolph.
00:09:45Your Highness,
00:09:46this is an honor.
00:09:48An intrusion, I fear, dear cousin.
00:09:51I need your help.
00:09:52I'm on my way through
00:09:53to a parade at Linz.
00:09:55I must see Maria.
00:09:56She's out skating.
00:09:58You know that little leg,
00:09:59Mia Grinsic.
00:10:01Then you'll forgive me
00:10:02if I leave you at once,
00:10:03but my train leaves in a few hours.
00:10:06Your Highness,
00:10:08please, I beg you,
00:10:10be patient.
00:10:12I don't understand.
00:10:14Well, this girl is something
00:10:15we've never encountered before.
00:10:16I should have realized it.
00:10:19This affair,
00:10:20oh, I know it is a love affair,
00:10:23could leave her badly hurt,
00:10:24damaged,
00:10:25spoil all her chances
00:10:27of being...
00:10:28of being happy with someone else.
00:10:31I told you to say this to me.
00:10:35Was it Count Taffy?
00:10:42I thought this time
00:10:43I had kept a secret.
00:10:47So my father knows too.
00:10:52That's why he made me out.
00:10:54And I thought at last
00:11:00he was giving me responsibility.
00:11:02I was grateful.
00:11:06I almost began to like him.
00:11:09I remember now he said
00:11:10there would be a lot of traveling.
00:11:12Highness,
00:11:13Taffy told me to say this to you,
00:11:17but it isn't why I said it.
00:11:20One thing you can be sure,
00:11:22I mean her no harm.
00:11:25My friend.
00:11:42You didn't seem surprised.
00:11:43I wasn't.
00:11:45Some nights before I fell asleep,
00:11:47I knew next day I'll see you.
00:11:48And last night I knew.
00:11:52Hot chocolate.
00:11:55Spiced wine for me.
00:11:58My brother George.
00:11:59I meant to keep watch over him.
00:12:02Yes, he's out there with friends.
00:12:04He's all right.
00:12:06You know it's terrible,
00:12:07but I can see much better out there
00:12:09than I can see you here.
00:12:11Vanity, vanity.
00:12:13But my love,
00:12:13you do look thin.
00:12:15I am thinner.
00:12:16Just worrying about you
00:12:18and what's been going on
00:12:18in Vienna behind my back.
00:12:20If it makes you jealous,
00:12:21I can say there's been a lot going on.
00:12:23For instance?
00:12:25Duke Michael of Braganza
00:12:26has formerly asked for me in marriage,
00:12:28but through his uncle,
00:12:29the king of Portugal.
00:12:30Tra-la-la.
00:12:32And Count Taffy has offered my uncle
00:12:34the pose of ambassador to Brazil.
00:12:35I was a fool to think
00:12:38they'd leave us alone.
00:12:40The emperor has the largest ears in Europe.
00:12:44And I think I have the reddest nose.
00:12:47Yes?
00:12:55How long?
00:13:00Only a few hours.
00:13:02Just passing by.
00:13:04Did you get my letters?
00:13:06Every day.
00:13:08But I've just thought of it.
00:13:09What?
00:13:11As they know now,
00:13:12they'll be open.
00:13:14Copies will be sent to Count Taffy.
00:13:16But why?
00:13:16We have no one, do we?
00:13:19Oh, yes, of course.
00:13:20You've got a wife and a child.
00:13:22And you will have him in Perth.
00:13:24What is it, Maria?
00:13:26What is it?
00:13:28Nothing.
00:13:30It's hopeless, that's all.
00:13:34So utterly hopeless.
00:13:35It can't be hopeless.
00:13:38Look at me, Maria.
00:13:43I'm looking.
00:13:46I have to go now.
00:13:49This boring parade at Linz.
00:13:52But while I'm away, remember this.
00:13:56It may take time.
00:13:58But we will be together one day.
00:14:00And we won't be parted anymore.
00:14:02Now they meet openly in a public place.
00:14:18His Highness no longer seems to care who sees them.
00:14:21It doesn't even trouble to avoid my men.
00:14:23It could be easier to make peace between two nations
00:14:25than to stop a man and a woman thinking they're in love.
00:14:27If a son or daughter of mine wrote this kind of...
00:14:30It would matter only to me and my family.
00:14:32But this discredits the name of Habsburg throughout Europe.
00:14:35It makes our royal house a cheap joke for tavern gossip
00:14:38and the foreign press.
00:14:40There is no stronger action I can take, sir,
00:14:43without your orders.
00:14:45Then I will do what the Emperor would wish me to do.
00:14:48And what most fathers in the same position would do
00:14:51if they had the power.
00:14:52Or perhaps...
00:14:55If I had your authority, sir,
00:14:58a direct order might not be needed.
00:15:01There are ways and means.
00:15:05You will have my authority.
00:15:10Who are this?
00:15:11Tell me the truth.
00:15:13And don't lie to me.
00:15:15Why should I lie?
00:15:17Would you rather believe someone writes such a letter
00:15:19and doesn't dare to sign it?
00:15:20Tell me what it says is not true.
00:15:25So it is true.
00:15:27You have a lover.
00:15:29You've been meeting secretly.
00:15:33Now I know why you've had so much shopping to do,
00:15:35so many little discussions.
00:15:39What's his name?
00:15:41Mother, it's not what you think.
00:15:44He loves me.
00:15:45What is his name?
00:15:46I can't tell you.
00:15:50Oh, the disgrace.
00:15:52If the person who wrote this knows,
00:15:53who else knows?
00:15:55Answer me.
00:15:58Answer me!
00:16:02Mother, if I told you...
00:16:05I mustn't.
00:16:06I can't.
00:16:06Very well.
00:16:08From this filthy person,
00:16:10there is one good piece of advice.
00:16:12You would be well advised
00:16:13to see your daughter leave the country
00:16:15as soon as possible.
00:16:15That's what you will do.
00:16:16No.
00:16:17Oh, give me his name.
00:16:17I told you, I can't.
00:16:19Then you will not leave this house,
00:16:22this room,
00:16:23until your bags are packed.
00:16:25Mother!
00:16:27Mother!
00:16:28Mother!
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00:16:57Mother!
00:16:58I don't think you're enjoying your duties as Inspector General.
00:17:13No, I'm not.
00:17:16I've no real authority.
00:17:18I'm still the puppet prince.
00:17:20Anyway, that's not the issue.
00:17:23I intend to resign my appointment the moment we get back to Vienna.
00:17:26And please don't ask me why.
00:17:29But I am asking you why.
00:17:32When you promoted me Inspector General, I was happy, pleased.
00:17:37I genuinely thought you had given me something important to do.
00:17:41It is important.
00:17:42I'm beginning to see just how important.
00:17:45Surely if you wanted me to use your own words to travel a great deal,
00:17:50you could have sent me on some foreign mission.
00:17:52China or Japan are far enough away.
00:17:57Only one trouble, of course.
00:17:59I would not have gone alone.
00:18:05God be thanked for sparing His Highness for another day to live.
00:18:09Thank you, Noshek.
00:18:11When did I get in last night?
00:18:13The train was late, nearly daylight.
00:18:16So I let you sleep an hour or two longer.
00:18:18Oh, country clothes today.
00:18:22And tell Bradfish to go and fetch Baroness Wetzel.
00:18:26Forgive me, Highness.
00:18:28The Countess Larish is in the ante room.
00:18:32At this hour, I let her in your bedroom.
00:18:35Why not?
00:18:38She's bent enough, I'd say it before.
00:18:45Highness, forgive me.
00:18:46Must be a reason.
00:18:47You will not blame me for bringing bad news.
00:18:49Oh, for God's sake, you'll tell me what it is.
00:18:52Maria.
00:18:53Her family has sent her away.
00:18:55They know?
00:18:57They know she has a lover.
00:18:58They don't know who he is.
00:19:00Who told them?
00:19:00Count Taffy arranged that they should know.
00:19:04My father's consent?
00:19:06Count Taffy is much too clever to act in a matter like this without the Emperor's approval.
00:19:11Where did they send her?
00:19:13My arm, you hurt me.
00:19:14Where?
00:19:16The family was too frightened to say it only happened last night.
00:19:21There was nothing I could do.
00:19:23Believe me.
00:19:30The Emperor, I want an audience with him at once.
00:19:44Today will not be possible.
00:19:46His Majesty said he will not see anyone.
00:19:49Not even you.
00:19:50He mentioned you by name, Highness.
00:19:53Not anyone for at least the next 24 hours.
00:19:57Your Highness.
00:19:58Your Highness.
00:20:00Will someone please get me a glass of water?
00:20:22Drink some more of this and put down that silly gun.
00:20:36No more wine, it's for it in my hand.
00:20:46Lance, you're dead.
00:20:47Rudolph, you're dead.
00:20:56Charles, you're dead.
00:20:58Joseph, all of you are dead.
00:21:09Reload it, please, Alex.
00:21:11That's a good fellow.
00:21:14Reload this for his Highness.
00:21:15Highness, you're tired.
00:21:16Let's all go home.
00:21:18Home?
00:21:21I had to wait a time for 48 hours to see my father.
00:21:27Would you ever wait for that time to see your father?
00:21:32No, Highness.
00:21:33I didn't.
00:21:35I never knew who my father was.
00:21:37My father approves of you.
00:21:42Did you know that?
00:21:44I approve of you too, Mitzi.
00:21:47By God, I approve of you.
00:21:50I approve.
00:21:52That's more like my highness.
00:21:53Must have that.
00:21:59An inspected general without his sidearms, I ask you.
00:22:03Gentlemen, like all great musicians, you play, of course, with your eyes closed.
00:22:20There now.
00:22:21There now.
00:22:31So you'll go to sleep.
00:22:33Like a good boy.
00:22:35Break me if my father sends for me.
00:22:37I won't be asleep.
00:22:39I won't be asleep.
00:22:40Don't worry.
00:22:49Not all of them.
00:22:51This is Mitzi you're talking to.
00:22:54Remember?
00:22:54Forgive me.
00:23:01My behavior was shocking.
00:23:05Forgot of her.
00:23:07I forgive you.
00:23:11Are thou next to me?
00:23:14I don't want to crumple this dress.
00:23:16Are you another tomorrow?
00:23:18You don't have to do that.
00:23:20All you have to do is to go to sleep.
00:23:29Give me.
00:23:46Isn't there a way?
00:23:47I sent her away, Marie.
00:23:54Did you know that?
00:23:57No.
00:24:01Go to sleep.
00:24:16I'm going away.
00:24:18Yes.
00:24:19I'm going away.
00:24:21Highness.
00:24:22Where?
00:24:22Where are you going?
00:24:24Where are you going?
00:24:26Oh, my God.
00:24:56The wedding ring of St. Louis.
00:25:03Read what it says inside.
00:25:0613th of January, 1889.
00:25:10That's today.
00:25:13U-B-L-U-D.
00:25:17United by love until death.
00:25:26Funny.
00:25:35Never think of Venice in the rain.
00:25:39From now on, I only will.
00:25:42I adore that sort of weather.
00:25:45You seem like such a child of the sun, happy.
00:25:49But the rain isn't sad.
00:25:51It's...
00:25:52It's light.
00:25:54Dancing.
00:25:55Not weeping.
00:25:57Dancing.
00:26:00I wouldn't have said that.
00:26:03I know that's what people think of snowflakes.
00:26:06Dancing like a ballet.
00:26:08Not me.
00:26:09I think of sleep.
00:26:11Long sleep and snow.
00:26:13But the rain is so lively.
00:26:16Listen.
00:26:17Maria Wetzel of the sleep and snow.
00:26:32I think I love you.
00:26:34Very much.
00:26:35I know now that I love you.
00:26:41You haven't been out of my thoughts.
00:26:45Only you.
00:26:49Remember once I told you,
00:26:52some nights before I fell asleep,
00:26:55I know next day I'll see you.
00:26:58Last night I knew.
00:27:00Some light, please.
00:27:05Shy.
00:27:06Truly, I'm shy.
00:27:07Any light, it must stay on.
00:27:12I'm frightened of the dark.
00:27:14My love.
00:27:16Oh, my love.
00:27:17I'll never know what China sees again.
00:27:27Who gave you permission to kill off?
00:27:28Nobody.
00:27:29I'm of age.
00:27:30I have my own passport.
00:27:31As Inspector General,
00:27:31I have no right to leave the country.
00:27:33I resigned my commission before I went.
00:27:35And I refuse to accept your resignation.
00:27:37Consequently, you face a court-martial.
00:27:38All right.
00:27:39Call the court-martial.
00:27:41And this.
00:27:43Your letter to the Pope,
00:27:45requesting, requesting
00:27:47an anonement
00:27:47of a marriage that makes me
00:27:49the laughingstock of all Europe.
00:27:51My letter to the Holy Father
00:27:52is my concern and nobody else.
00:27:54To me, the Pope
00:27:55and the Archbishop of Vienna
00:27:56are mere chaplains to our family.
00:27:58I will not tolerate our affairs
00:28:00being pandered about
00:28:00by any other living person,
00:28:02priest or no priest.
00:28:03And then,
00:28:04to have your appeal rejected by Rome.
00:28:06Could you humiliate us further?
00:28:08Was it you who told them to reject it?
00:28:10If it was not necessary,
00:28:11they decided.
00:28:13They kept me informed
00:28:14as head of the family.
00:28:15As for me,
00:28:16I shall never allow the course
00:28:17between you and Stephanie.
00:28:18This woman of guilt is
00:28:19that Sarah
00:28:20will never again set foot
00:28:22inside this empire.
00:28:23your seal?
00:28:33So much for you,
00:28:35holy Roman Empire.
00:28:38You can send your ministers
00:28:39to me with the papers.
00:28:40Before this month is out,
00:28:41I shall have renounced my titles
00:28:42and left this country for good.
00:28:44And if I refuse to accept
00:28:45the deed of abdication,
00:28:47if your passport
00:28:48is taken away from you,
00:28:49you can go one step further.
00:28:54Your prisons are filled,
00:28:56but I'm sure Count Taffer
00:28:57and his police
00:28:58will find room for one more.
00:29:00I'll leave you
00:29:01to the judgment
00:29:02of your mistress
00:29:03and of her family
00:29:06to whom you're bringing
00:29:07ruin and disgrace
00:29:08and of the children
00:29:09of your mistress.
00:29:11Bastards
00:29:12who suffer humiliation
00:29:14wherever they go.
00:29:15Habsburgs by blood,
00:29:16but bastards.
00:29:18To be slighted by
00:29:18inferiors
00:29:19who have just
00:29:20one superior grace.
00:29:23The grace of marriage.
00:29:27And to the judgment
00:29:28of the daughter
00:29:29that you have now,
00:29:30if you haven't forgotten her,
00:29:32she will grow up
00:29:33with the knowledge
00:29:34that her father
00:29:34was an adulterer
00:29:35in his private life
00:29:36and a traitor
00:29:37to his public cause.
00:29:43Those men out there
00:29:44of all races,
00:29:46croats,
00:29:47slovenes,
00:29:48Czechs,
00:29:50Hungarians,
00:29:50their pay is low,
00:29:52most of them
00:29:52are far from home,
00:29:54but if I gave the order,
00:29:55there's not one of them
00:29:57who wouldn't die for me.
00:30:00You meant what you said before,
00:30:02that Maria
00:30:04could never come back
00:30:06to this country.
00:30:06I mean no harm
00:30:08to her
00:30:09nor to her family.
00:30:15It rests with you
00:30:17to decide
00:30:18what harm
00:30:19you will bring
00:30:19to them.
00:30:21I'm even prepared
00:30:22to allow you
00:30:23to see her again
00:30:24for a few derries,
00:30:25perhaps,
00:30:26if I knew
00:30:27that afterwards
00:30:28you'd never meet again.
00:30:29you don't believe
00:30:34that I love her.
00:30:37I don't believe
00:30:38that it matters.
00:30:49Till the end
00:30:50of the month.
00:30:53Can I have the time
00:30:54with her till then?
00:30:57No policemen,
00:30:58no spies.
00:31:02If I have your word.
00:31:06You have my words.
00:31:08I don't believe
00:31:10I don't believe
00:31:11I don't believe
00:31:11I don't believe
00:31:12I don't believe
00:31:13I don't believe
00:31:13I don't believe
00:31:13I don't believe
00:31:14I don't believe
00:31:14I don't believe
00:31:15I don't believe
00:31:15I don't believe
00:31:15I don't believe
00:31:16I don't believe
00:31:16I don't believe
00:31:17I don't believe
00:31:17I don't believe
00:31:17I don't believe
00:31:18I don't believe
00:31:18I don't believe
00:31:19I don't believe
00:31:19I don't believe
00:31:19I don't believe
00:31:20I don't believe
00:31:20I don't believe
00:31:21I don't believe
00:31:21I don't believe
00:31:22I don't believe
00:31:22I don't believe
00:31:23I don't believe
00:31:24I don't believe
00:31:25I don't believe
00:31:26I don't believe
00:31:27I don't believe
00:31:28I don't believe
00:31:29I don't believe
00:31:30I don't believe
00:31:38I must have been asleep all night.
00:31:53Where are we?
00:31:55Smiling.
00:32:08They don't fly as straight here as they do in Scotland, McClavish.
00:32:26And you don't shoot as straight here as you do in Scotland, Your Royal Highness.
00:32:29Nonsense, it's the light.
00:32:31It's the late nights and the foreign wines instead of whiskey and reasonable hours.
00:32:35Rubbish.
00:32:39Oh, it's horrible.
00:32:41I hate it, I hate it.
00:32:43Something I'll never be able to share with you, this killing.
00:32:46When I was a boy, my father thought me unmanly because I liked watching animals and studying them more than killing.
00:32:52Now I kill.
00:32:54Linus, to the right, corner of the wood.
00:32:59Oh, don't, please don't.
00:33:00He looks so sweet, you shouldn't.
00:33:03I must say, don't make it easy for the huntsman.
00:33:05I don't intend to.
00:33:09What more do you want me to do?
00:33:12Nothing.
00:33:13And you don't have to like everything I do either.
00:33:15Your Highness.
00:33:18Some friends of ours, they've just arrived unexpectedly.
00:33:20John?
00:33:30Carole and I have just crossed over from Hungary.
00:33:34Highness, tomorrow there is to be the biggest demonstration that Budapest has ever seen.
00:33:38Do you know what they're painting on the panels and placards?
00:33:43Prince Rudolf of Austria for our king.
00:33:46Now is the time, Highness, when you must declare yourself.
00:33:49Pajos, you're Hungarian.
00:33:54Tell him what it means.
00:33:58Carole is right.
00:33:59It's the only way to keep Hungary still within the empire.
00:34:02You have to move.
00:34:04You have to move now.
00:34:05What happens if the Empress ends his armies into Hungary?
00:34:13Civil war.
00:34:14But with you there, as king, as his viceroy, whatever you like to call yourself.
00:34:21Who are those men?
00:34:23They are friends.
00:34:25Whose friends?
00:34:27Ours.
00:34:27Come and meet them.
00:34:31Come and shake them with a hand.
00:34:33Come and tell them you're with us.
00:34:36What are their names?
00:34:42One day perhaps you'll join us.
00:34:46I just hope it won't be too late.
00:34:57I just killed what must be about the biggest wild boar seen in these parts for many a long year.
00:35:15Well done, Edward.
00:35:17I'm going back to Vienna to see my father.
00:35:19You take Maria to my apartment in Schoenbrunn and wait for me there.
00:35:22There's a ball tonight at Schoenbrunn for the Prince of Wales.
00:35:25I want the Wetzlar family to have invitations.
00:35:30But really, Rudolf.
00:35:33I thought you'd been complaining that your friends weren't received at court.
00:35:37Well, tonight, they will be.
00:35:44Mad.
00:35:45Like all the Habsburgs.
00:35:47Stark, raving mad.
00:35:49Come on, come here.
00:35:50Come on, eat.
00:35:50What do you imagine you're doing with that?
00:35:52Oh.
00:35:55It's for the phone we had opted.
00:35:59Oh, it's so lovely.
00:36:02So peaceful.
00:36:03Remember what I told you, Snow?
00:36:06Yes, sleep.
00:36:08Long sleep, I remember.
00:36:11And rain was for dancing.
00:36:16Why?
00:36:18Why what?
00:36:20You sighed.
00:36:22A heavy sigh.
00:36:23Oh, it's the thought of Vienna.
00:36:28And despite the presence of my mother, of going back to court.
00:36:35It's not in any way that I've made you unhappy.
00:36:40Just the opposite.
00:36:43Good, because I've never been so happy.
00:36:45That I only wish that I were God, so I could bless everyone twice over.
00:36:52First, with someone to love.
00:36:54And second?
00:36:56With someone to love them in return.
00:36:58Would her ladyship like some more tea?
00:37:15No, thank you, Lechek.
00:37:17Although those little biscuits were delicious, and so bad for the figure or so.
00:37:21Then there is nothing more that her ladyship requires.
00:37:24Just that you're telling one thing.
00:37:27How long have you been with the Archduke?
00:37:29Since he was twelve.
00:37:31You're so lucky.
00:37:32Not when he was twelve, your ladyship.
00:37:35A holy terror.
00:37:37You're very fond of him.
00:37:39Like you.
00:37:40If I may take the liberty, ladyship.
00:37:42I am very, very fond of his highness.
00:37:46That was a lovely thing to say.
00:37:49Thank you, Lechek.
00:37:58Lechek, would you announce me to his highness?
00:38:01He's at the Hofburg, waiting to see the emperor, your majesty.
00:38:05Just tell him that I arrived unexpectedly, to inquire how he was.
00:38:09Lechek, would you put these in water?
00:38:11Oh, since I'm here, I might as well leave a note.
00:38:30Oh, I'm so sorry to have disturbed you.
00:38:35Lechek, you should have told me.
00:38:39And now leave us.
00:38:40I wanted to know how my son was.
00:38:49I see him so little.
00:38:52How does he look?
00:38:54He seems to me a little worried, your majesty.
00:38:57And tired.
00:38:59Poor Rudolf.
00:39:01He wasn't meant for this life they make him lead.
00:39:04I often wonder if anybody was.
00:39:07I haven't met you, mademoiselle.
00:39:10I go out so little now.
00:39:11But I, I do know that my son loves you.
00:39:18Sit down, please.
00:39:19You're even lovelier than I've been told.
00:39:28I'm so young.
00:39:29How old are you?
00:39:29I'm 20, ma'am.
00:39:3320?
00:39:3620, I was already unhappy.
00:39:39But as I was young, I didn't die.
00:39:41No, Vienna's not for the young.
00:39:45Stay away if you can.
00:39:46I like the country best, your majesty.
00:39:49Oh, so do I.
00:39:50And so does Rudolf.
00:39:53And so does his father.
00:39:56We're what we are.
00:39:57But we, we must be what they want us to be.
00:40:02Common children play at kings and queens.
00:40:06We play at shepherds.
00:40:09Sometimes even circus performers.
00:40:12Listen, if you wait long enough, you'll hear it.
00:40:26A door closing, a servant dropping is born.
00:40:31Oh, it's never completely silent.
00:40:36One is never completely alone.
00:40:39And yet,
00:40:39one is always quite, quite alone.
00:40:49Do you know what he said to me
00:40:50the day he was married?
00:40:53He said,
00:40:53Mother, say a prayer for me.
00:40:56And I said,
00:40:56What prayer shall I make for you?
00:40:59And he said,
00:41:02Please pray to God
00:41:03that I shall never fall in love.
00:41:07Allow me to kiss you, my child.
00:41:09You are very dear to my heart.
00:41:14Thank you, Serio.
00:42:57Oh, Luke.
00:43:29To the last moment, I wasn't sure myself.
00:43:32You know how I hate being stared at.
00:43:35Knowing they're all thinking whole, she's become hot.
00:43:38Nonsense.
00:43:40They're longing to rush home and tell all their friends
00:43:42that they've just seen the world's most beautiful emperors.
00:43:45There are not that many of us left.
00:43:48But couldn't you distract them?
00:43:51Some way.
00:43:52Let them dance.
00:43:53Taffrey, your majesty.
00:43:55The music, please.
00:43:56If you're going to open the ball, sir,
00:43:58I shall have to ask my mother for the second dance of the evening.
00:44:02Your father and I have talking to do.
00:44:04I'm sure you can take the emperor's place.
00:44:08As a dancer, he can take my place at any time.
00:44:11My dear, could I...
00:44:17I'm longing to talk to you, but there are certain subjects which we cannot discuss in public.
00:44:22Baroness Vetsera, may I have your permission to ask your daughter, Maria,
00:44:32to do me the honor of opening the ball?
00:44:36I buy your permission.
00:44:38If your imperial highness insists...
00:44:43Your majesties, allow me to present to you the Baroness Maria Vetsera,
00:44:47whose fate has been a matter of such great interest to you.
00:44:56You're very beautiful, Baroness.
00:45:00And your youth gives you the right to expect everything of life.
00:45:04Your majesty is kind.
00:45:10The Baroness and I have already met.
00:45:13I trust that the liking I have for her is mutual.
00:45:18Your majesty is truly kind.
00:45:20I shall retire now.
00:45:23Perhaps you would come to see me before you go.
00:45:27But not too late.
00:45:30Good night.
00:45:34I'm proud of you, Maria.
00:45:50God, how I'm proud of you.
00:45:54I hope someday we have children so they too can be proud of you.
00:46:01I hope someday we have children so they too can be proud of you.
00:47:02Edward.
00:47:10Edward, I need your help.
00:47:11Must let me come to England.
00:47:13But, my dear boy, yours is the only state visits I enjoy.
00:47:15No, not for a state visit.
00:47:16To live there for good.
00:47:17Lord, when you think of England, you see the White Cliffs of Dover.
00:47:25I see an elderly lady.
00:47:27And however fond the Queen may be of you personally, politically...
00:47:30But one day you'll be king, and then...
00:47:34Even then I shall not be able to treat England as my own private house party, to which I can invite everybody I wish.
00:47:41Where can I go? What shall I do?
00:47:47You'll have to do the same thing as I shall do tomorrow night.
00:47:50What's that?
00:47:53Go back to my wife.
00:47:59Oh, but to flaunt the whole affair in public, it's madness. I tell you, sheer madness.
00:48:03I did it for a reason. To bring the affair out in the open, which means you can no longer try and push it all under the carpet like some lazy servant with a sweepings.
00:48:11But now your father's more determined than ever.
00:48:12I don't know how a man can refuse those eyes.
00:48:17The child really is a wonder.
00:48:19I was counting on that, too, that he'd see she was someone special, not some backstairs, Madame du Barry.
00:48:26You should have given me more time. I'm sure I could have worked out something.
00:48:30Something like my father's arrangement with Katharina Schrat? No, thank you.
00:48:33I want marriage. I want children.
00:48:36Not some hole-in-the-corner, back-street romance. Marriage, nothing else.
00:48:39It was I who brought Froschrat into your father's life.
00:48:45As an act of compassion. Humanity.
00:48:49Because if I didn't want to, wouldn't, in fact, stay in Vienna and share your father's bed.
00:48:55I had no right to ask a man to lead an unnatural life of celibacy.
00:49:01Darling, I know it's marriage you want. Even a more gnatic one.
00:49:06Then I shall have it.
00:49:07You will not deprive me.
00:49:12It's marriage wrong.
00:49:13Oh, what, my child?
00:49:15And you are a child when you speak like that.
00:49:18I tell you, Mother,
00:49:20they hound me just too much. They drive me just too far.
00:49:24Do you think your father doesn't know what he's doing to you?
00:49:26What he's doing to himself.
00:49:32Because in your pride and stubbornness, you're both the same man.
00:49:36But if you think he's wrong, so are you, my love.
00:49:41And come away from that window. You'll die of pneumonia.
00:49:44Or I will.
00:49:44Mother, I'm telling you this and nobody else.
00:49:53There's one last chance left for me.
00:49:56Hungary, they want me there to be their king. I could go now.
00:49:58I can't listen. I...
00:50:02But you listen.
00:50:04Listen to me.
00:50:05Get the girl out of the country.
00:50:07And soon,
00:50:09there are convents here where...
00:50:11where a girl can be set and never come out again.
00:50:14And with the madness prevalent in this family,
00:50:16nothing is out of the question. Do you hear me?
00:50:18I hear you.
00:50:22I have to go now.
00:50:25Thank you for what you tried to do.
00:50:31And tell the child,
00:50:33I truly love her.
00:50:35Because she truly loves you.
00:50:38Remember, I once told you I hoped never to fall in love.
00:50:44And now I have.
00:50:45I'm really a very lucky man.
00:50:49No, you're not that.
00:50:51But you're a very good one.
00:51:00Good night, Mother.
00:51:02Goodbye, my son.
00:51:15You're a very good one.
00:51:24Highness, your highness.
00:51:25forgive me coming here your highness but I must leave tonight already I may be too late you can't
00:51:48afford to be your orders are for Carole to hold up the Budapest risings until next week until I
00:51:53can get there and you agree to have them call on you to become king of Hungary it's the only way I
00:51:59can keep Hungary within the Empire I suppose every man needs to justify treason Carole insist on your
00:52:07signature to this proclamation and as proof that you give me your ring I suppose a signature in
00:52:21pencil is legal it's only for Carole to see he doesn't trust my word anymore your highness
00:52:27can't say I blame him drive as fast as you can I don't want a rising unless I'm there to lead it
00:52:33you changed your mind you're sure this is immensely serious suddenly everything has become immensely
00:52:43serious Godspeed to how you send yourself then it's Budapest
00:52:56thank God I'd be so glad when we get back to mailing so shall I it's been a horrible evening
00:53:08yes would you just have done
00:53:38yes
00:53:44yes
00:53:44Ah
00:54:14Are you trying to kill us
00:54:42Driver
00:54:58Free
00:55:01Do you mean we're free to go? Yes, you are for the moment
00:55:04Oh, by the way, Count Hoyesh
00:55:13I think you should give this back to its owner
00:55:18So Count Taffey let you go
00:55:27Why not? The rising in Budapest, it's over
00:55:31Then you must know
00:55:35That there's nothing left for me to do
00:55:38Did you find out what happened?
00:55:42Count Taffey had six battalions ready and waiting
00:55:46A hundred rounds of ammunition per man
00:55:48And officers who were not Hungarian
00:55:49It was not just a failure
00:55:51It was
00:55:52It was a massacre
00:55:53Prince John
00:55:56No one knows where
00:55:58Caroli
00:56:06He shot himself
00:56:08Taffey returned the ring, but not the papers that went with it
00:56:17He still has the papers
00:56:20I wonder if a signature in pencil is legal
00:56:24But you will never find out
00:56:28What was it that Caroli said that day?
00:56:36One day, perhaps
00:56:38You will join us
00:56:41But I'd wait then
00:57:05Till you come back
00:57:06It would be a long, long time
00:57:09An impossible time to wait
00:57:14Better still
00:57:15I'll go with you
00:57:20And if that were impossible
00:57:23How impossible
00:57:25I'd follow you anywhere
00:57:31I won't allow it
00:57:32I can't let you
00:57:35Another one
00:57:35Bradfish another
00:57:37And Losek, fill yourself a glass
00:57:39In this
00:57:41Come, I want you to drink with me
00:57:52Highness
00:57:54It is not something I should say
00:57:56But by asking me to drink with you
00:57:58You give me leave to speak as man to man
00:58:01And not as a servant to a prince
00:58:03In all the years I have been with you
00:58:08I have never seen you so happy as you are tonight
00:58:13With your permission, Highness
00:58:15I drink to
00:58:20To a
00:58:20To a
00:58:35In all the years you've been with me Losek
00:58:38It's the first time anything's been broken
00:58:40Second time, Highness
00:58:42Have you forgotten how you threw a razor at me once and hit a mirror?
00:58:46You're trying to say something to me
00:59:01But you keep on not saying it
00:59:03Let me say it for you
00:59:09If you went away
00:59:12No matter where
00:59:12But if you went and never came back
00:59:14Have you thought what becomes of me?
00:59:19Wandering the world
00:59:21Alone
00:59:23Strange world
00:59:25And a lonely place
00:59:28Because you won't be there
00:59:29Because I can't be
00:59:34They won't let me live with you
00:59:37And I wouldn't want to live
00:59:39Without you
00:59:40My dear I understand
00:59:42And I've been trying all the time to let you know I understand
00:59:46But dear God why no one not even you
00:59:49Will ever learn how much I love you
00:59:59You
01:00:29Good night, my friends.
01:00:33And until the next time we meet, God keep you.
01:00:50Only the thought of the dark, nothing else.
01:00:59The dark, nothing else.
01:01:29The dark, nothing else.
01:01:59Go to sleep, then.
01:02:02I don't want to.
01:02:04Not yet.
01:02:06God help it, though.
01:02:12You know, if you want to change your mind, there's still time.
01:02:15Not without you.
01:02:16I wouldn't want to live.
01:02:21Just one thing, please.
01:02:23Yes.
01:02:27I don't...
01:02:29I don't want to know when.
01:02:33I'm frightened.
01:02:35Not much, but frightened.
01:02:41So am I.
01:02:42You've no need to be.
01:02:44I'm with you.
01:02:47Always will be.
01:02:50I wouldn't want you to be lonely.
01:02:53For you to feel alone.
01:02:54In the dark.
01:02:56That's why.
01:02:57For the unluckiest man in Austria.
01:03:09I've ended up the most, most fortunate one.
01:03:13We're both fortunate.
01:03:14For one thing.
01:03:17Fancy to be able to say to someone,
01:03:19I'll always love you.
01:03:23And it must be true.
01:03:25Always.
01:03:25I've only loved you.
01:03:43You were my first love.
01:03:48I...
01:03:48I wish...
01:03:50I wish I could truly see you.
01:03:54One last time.
01:03:56Remember what I used to tell you.
01:04:00Some nights before I fall asleep.
01:04:02I know next day, I'll see you.
01:04:11Yes.
01:04:12I know I'll see you.
01:04:18Till tomorrow then.
01:04:21Tomorrow.
01:04:21Tomorrow.
01:04:21I think I'd like to sleep now.
01:04:33Good night, my love.
01:04:35I'll always love you.
01:04:48I'll always love you.
01:04:48Until later.
01:05:14I'll always love you.
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