
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.
Ludwig II

Lola Montez

Lakai Mayr / Hoffriseur Hoppe / Röhm

Elisabeth Ney

Baron Freyschlag

Graf Holnstein

Sissi
Mme Bulyowski
Richard Wagner #1
Richard Wagner #2
Minissterpräsident Lutz
Professor Gudden

Aussenminister von der Pfordten

Emmanuel Geibel / Hitler

Prinz Ludwig
Otto
Ludwig I / Karl May

Hesselschwert

Alfons Weber
Hoffotograf Albert / Journalist
Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm
Bismarck