
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
Countess Marie Vetsera

Crown Prince Rudolph

The Prime Minister

The Emperor Franz Joseph

The Empress Elizabeth

Countess Larische

Baroness Vetsera

Police Officer

Emperor's Aide

Police Officer

Loschek

Marinka

Szeps

Philip of Coeburg
Princess Stephanie

Hoyos

Headwaiter

Hanna Vetsera

Marie's Cousin

a Drummer

Prater Waiter

Nurse
Puppeteer