Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972.
as Ludwig II
as Lola Montez
as Lakai Mayr / Hoffriseur Hoppe / Röhm
as Elisabeth Ney
as Baron Freyschlag
as Graf Holnstein
as Sissi
as Mme Bulyowski
as Richard Wagner #1
as Richard Wagner #2
as Minissterpräsident Lutz
as Professor Gudden
as Aussenminister von der Pfordten
as Emmanuel Geibel / Hitler
as Prinz Ludwig
as Otto
as Ludwig I / Karl May
as Hesselschwert
as Alfons Weber
as Hoffotograf Albert / Journalist
as Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm
as Bismarck