Mayerling Incident - in The Media

In The Media

The Mayerling affair has been dramatized in:

  • The 1924 film Tragedy in the House of Habsburg directed by Alexander Korda
  • The movie Mayerling (1936), directed by Anatole Litvak starring Danielle Darrieux as Mary and Charles Boyer as Rudolph
  • The movie De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940), directed by Max Ophüls
  • The musical Marinka (1945), book by George Marion, Jr., and Karl Farkas, lyrics by George Marion, Jr., music by Emmerich Kalman
  • The movie Le Secret de Mayerling (1949), directed by Jean Delannoy
  • Mayerling, a 1957 American television production (released theatrically in Europe) directed by Anatole Litvak starring Audrey Hepburn as Mary and Mel Ferrer as Rudolph
  • The movie Mayerling (1968), directed by Terence Young, starring Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, and Ava Gardner.
  • The series Fall of Eagles (1974), in the episode Requiem For A Crown Prince
  • The film Private Vices, Public Virtues (Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù) (1975), directed by Miklós Jancsó.
  • Kenneth MacMillan's 1978 ballet Mayerling
  • The musical Elisabeth (1992), with book/lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Sylvester Levay; the incident is dramatized as a very stylized dance sequence.
  • The Japanese manga Angel's Coffin (Ave Maria/Tenshi no Hitsugi) (2000), by You Higuri.
  • The German crossover opera Mayerling * Requiem einer Liebe (2006) by Siegfried Carl (lyrics) and Ricardo Urbetsch (composer)
  • The musical Rudolf by Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy, Phoebe Hwang and Nan Knighton that had its premiere at the Operett Színház in Budapest on May 26, 2006, where it plays winters in alternation with outdoor performances in Szeged during the summers.
  • The Japanese musical Utakata no Koi, produced by the Takarazuka Revue and performed on six separate occasions between 1983 and 2006.
  • Kronprinz Rudolf, a 2006 Austrian TV film directed by Robert Dornhelm, starring Max von Thun and Vittoria Puccini, and featuring a cameo appearance by Omar Sharif (released in the U.S. in early 2010 under the title The Crown Prince).
  • In W.E.B. Griffin's Presidential Agent series, a country club in Argentina frequented by expatriate Germans is called Mayerling.
  • The 2006 film The Illusionist, directed by Neil Burger, starring Edward Norton with Rufus Sewell as Prince Leopold, fictionalizes the circumstances surrounding the Crown Prince's death.
  • The Time of Murder at Mayerling — Ann Dukthas; fictionalized account
  • 1986 radio play on BBC Radio 4, Saturday Night Theatre 8/2/1986, "Pure Angel" by Eric Docherty; with Anna Cropper & Benjamin Whitrow

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