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Even more Sissi: Finsterwalder film “Sisi & Me”
The actresses Sandra Hüller (l), in the role of the lady-in-waiting Irma, and Susanne Wolff, as Empress Elisabeth called Sisi, act in a scene from the film “Sisi und Ich”. photo
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Sissi and no end: A new film about the former empress will be released in cinemas in March. “Sissi & Ich” by Frauke Finsterwalder starts out as a lively satire – and ends in the abysses of the soul.
The current Empress Sisi wave spills into the year 2023: In March “Sisi & Ich” with Sandra Hüller and Susanne Wolff will come to the cinema. The film is the new work by Frauke Finsterwalder, who released the ensemble film “Finsterworld” in 2013.
“Sisi & I” begins as satire and ends “in the deep abysses of the human soul,” the responsible press agency said. As lady-in-waiting Irma, in a kind of aristocratic community in Greece – far away from Vienna and Emperor Franz Joseph – Hüller (“Toni Erdmann”) falls in love with the mature, charismatic Empress Elisabeth, who lives out her freedom, who is played by Wolff.
Finsterwalder again wrote the script together with her husband, the writer Christian Kracht (“1979”, “Faserland”, “Eurotrash”). Filming took place in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Malta. The theatrical release is announced for March 16 in Germany and Switzerland. Other roles include Georg Friedrich, Stefan Kurt, Tom Rhys Harries, Sophie Hutter, Angela Winkler and Johanna Wokalek.
By the way, 2023 is the 125th anniversary of the death of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth from Bavaria – pop culture mostly called Sissi, historically correct Sisi. She was murdered in Geneva in 1898.
The RTL series “Sisi” came out in 2021, the second season of which will now be available on RTL+ in December and will also be shown on linear television between the years. Marie Kreutzer’s film “Corsage” was shown in cinemas in the summer. The German Netflix series “Die Kaiserin” (international: “The Empress”) was released at the end of September and was internationally successful. It is also scheduled to continue in 2023.
A cult hovering over all these Sisi fabrics in German-speaking countries are the 1950s movies “Sissi”, “Sissi – the young empress” and “Sissi – fateful years of an empress” with Romy Schneider, which will again be shown this year at Christmas on ARD -TV running.