Sina Entertainment News On November 30 Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, the new film “Corset” focusing on “Sissi” Empress Elisabeth of Austria will be released on December 23 in North America.
The film will represent Austria in competition for the Academy Award for Best International Film, starring Vicky Krips and directed by Marie Kruse (“Thirty and Beautiful”, “The Land Under Your Feet”).
Adored for her beauty, Elizabeth is known for inspiring fashion trends, but in 1877, Elizabeth celebrates her 40th birthday and must maintain her public image by tying her corset ever tighter. Elisabeth’s role, against her will, is reduced to a purely performative nature, her thirst for knowledge and joie de vivre make her increasingly restless in Vienna.
Elizabeth then travels to England and Bavaria, visiting old flames and old friends, seeking the excitement and purpose of her youth. With her strict ceremonial duties before her, Elizabeth rebels against her exaggerated image of her and comes up with a plan to protect her property.
Empress Elisabeth was born into an aristocratic family in the Kingdom of Bavaria and was often nicknamed Sissy by family and friends. Although Queen Elizabeth was a duchess, before meeting Franz Joseph I at the age of 16, she enjoyed a naturally educated way of life. Her marriage thrust her into the formal life of the Habsburg court in a way she did not expect and she felt alienated. Her mother-in-law, Princess Sophie, took over Queen Elizabeth’s daughters after their birth and even baptized them without Queen Elizabeth’s knowledge. Thus, early in the marriage, she was at odds with her mother-in-law over custody of her daughter. Although Empress Elisabeth had limited political influence in Austria-Hungary, she had become something of a cultural icon. Queen Elizabeth, as in her film and stage productions, has been regarded as a tragic figure torn between free spirit and traditional courtly conventions.
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