The Secret of Mayerling
1949 film
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French | Le secret de Mayerling |
Directed by | Jean Delannoy |
Written by | Jacques Rémy Jean Delannoy Philippe Hériat |
Produced by | Claude Dolbert Jean Velter |
Starring | Jean Marais Dominique Blanchar Jean Debucourt Claude Farell |
Cinematography | Robert Lefebvre |
Edited by | James Cuenet |
Music by | Louis Beydts |
Production company | Codo Cinéma |
Distributed by | Les Films Marceau |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | 2,430,628 admissions (France)[1] |
The Secret of Mayerling (French: Le secret de Mayerling) is a 1949 French Historical drama film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Jean Marais, Dominique Blanchar and Jean Debucourt.[2][3] It set around the 1889 Mayerling Incident when the crown prince of the Austrian Empire was found having apparently committed suicide with his lover.
It was shot at the Epinay Studios with sets designed by the art director Raymond Druart.
It was a commercial success in France and other European countries, including in West Germany where it was released by Constantin Film.
Cast
- Jean Marais as Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
- Dominique Blanchar as Baroness Mary Vetsera
- Jean Debucourt as Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria
- Claude Farell as Countess Larisch
- Silvia Monfort as Archduchess Stéphanie
- Jane Marken as Baroness Vetsera
- Marguerite Jamois as Empress Elisabeth of Austria
- Denise Benoît as Anna Vetsera
- Madeleine Foujane as the German ambassador
- Michel Vitold as Archduke Jean-Salvator
- Jacques Dacqmine as Archduke François-Ferdinand
- Jean Toulout as Count Taafe
- Raphaël Patorni as Count Hoyos
- François Richard as Prince of Saxe-Cobourg
- André Carnège as doctor
- Charles Lemontier as Loschek
- Jean Aymé as Nuncio
- Andrews Engelmann as the Killer
References
External links
- The Secret of Mayerling at IMDb
- The Secret of Mayerling at AllMovie
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Films directed by Jean Delannoy
- Paris-Deauville (1934)
- Tamara (1938)
- Golden Venus (1938)
- The Black Diamond (1941)
- Fever (1942)
- Gambling Hell (1942)
- The Murderer Is Afraid at Night (1942)
- Colonel Pontcarral (1942)
- The Eternal Return (1943)
- The Hunchback (1944)
- Blind Desire (1945)
- Pastoral Symphony (1946)
- Les jeux sont faits (1947)
- To the Eyes of Memory (1948)
- The Secret of Mayerling (1949)
- God Needs Men (1950)
- Savage Triangle (1951)
- The Moment of Truth (1952)
- Napoleon Road (1953)
- Daughters of Destiny (1954)
- The Bed (1954)
- Obsession (1954)
- The Little Rebels (1955)
- Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
- Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
- Guinguette (1959)
- Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959)
- The Baron of the Locks (1960)
- Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
- La Princesse de Clèves (1961)
- Rendezvous (1961)
- Imperial Venus (1962)
- Les amitiés particulières (1964)
- The Majordomo (1965)
- The Double Bed (1965)
- The Sultans (1966)
- Action Man (1967)
- Children of Mata Hari (1970)
- Not Dumb, the Bird (1972)
- The Crime of Pierre Lacaze (1983)
- The Enigmatic Mister S. (1987)
- Bernadette (1988)
- The Passion of Bernadette (1990)
- Mary of Nazareth (1995)
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