A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
as Empress Elisabeth
as Franz Josef
as Marie Festetics
as Ida Ferenczy
as Fanny Feifalik
as Louis Le Prince
as Ludwig II
as Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
as Bay Middleton
as Gyula Andrássy
as Mrs. Andrássy
as Georg Raab, Painter of the Court
as Earl of Spencer
as Valerie
as Marie
as Lady of Spencer
as Chief Physician Leidesdorf
as Chambermaid Fini
as Doctor
as Eugen Ketterl
as Prince of Auersperg
as Hofarzt von Widerhofer
as Chambermaid Lotti
as Count Latour of Thurmburg
as Anna Nahowski
as Otto
as Chambermaid Lisi
as Constable Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst
as Countess of Fürstenberg
as Carl Freiherr von Hasenauer
as Cajetan Felder
as Nanny Minny
as Princess Marie of Hohenlohe
as Count Holnstein
as Young Soldier