"Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin" tells the story of the young empress of Austria, Sissi, who finds herself caught between the enormous political duties of her beloved husband and a mistrusting, careless mother-in-law.
The film is typical for its time. You have a couple that is almost ridiculously in love, that has huge fights over important issues but suddenly forgets everything at the first opportunity (Doesn't seem like a clever way to cope with differences). You have good and bad characters and very little in between. There is a lot of effort shown, especially in terms of mask and set decoration, but all of the emotions in this movie are so exaggerated that even the dark sides of the story are not dark enough to cause any trouble. What I don't really like are that the film is changing history, even though this is a common thing. It is clear that the depiction of historic events will always be an adaption but you should at least stick to the facts.
All in all this is a classic but one that aged quite noticeably. I would have liked a more brutal depiction of what it psychally meant for a young empress to live through all that.
The film is typical for its time. You have a couple that is almost ridiculously in love, that has huge fights over important issues but suddenly forgets everything at the first opportunity (Doesn't seem like a clever way to cope with differences). You have good and bad characters and very little in between. There is a lot of effort shown, especially in terms of mask and set decoration, but all of the emotions in this movie are so exaggerated that even the dark sides of the story are not dark enough to cause any trouble. What I don't really like are that the film is changing history, even though this is a common thing. It is clear that the depiction of historic events will always be an adaption but you should at least stick to the facts.
All in all this is a classic but one that aged quite noticeably. I would have liked a more brutal depiction of what it psychally meant for a young empress to live through all that.