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SISSI MOVIES AND THE REALITY - INTRODUCTION
The 1950s Sissi Movies still enjoy a high popularity. Anybody who sees the film can get to know the adventurous encounter of Elisabeth, Princess of Bavaria and Emperor Franz Joseph, which ends up with a marriage, and one can think that it was love at the first sight. According to the movie, the young Sisi catches not a fish but the Emperor of Austria himself at the riverside while fishing! A very funny and entertaining scene but it has not much to do with the reality. However, the story that the Emperor fell in love with the young girl at first sight and due to this he was brave enough to confront her beloved mother, Archduchess Sophie - for the first time - is the plain fact.
Ernst Marischka’ Sissi films reflect the taste of the Austrian public at the 1950s. The aim of the trilogy was to make the audience forget about the horrors of the Second World War while watching. Since then it has been one of the most successful German-speaking film in the world.
This paper is not written in order to caricature the movie Sissi which is loved by many (even by the author of this article) but to familiarize the readers with Sisi and tell them how the things really happened ...
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