Unlucky to come on the heels of Marie Kreutzer's similarly anachronistic Sisi portrait 'Corsage,' Frauke Finsterwalder's film nonetheless offers its own pleasures by centering the handmaid's tale.

The reluctant empress known as “Sisi” painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would be remembered in a specific way Based on a True Story Elizabeth Djinis - ...

Exclusive: Susanne Wolff is the latest actress to play the rebellious Austrio-Hungarian empress following Vicky Krieps' 2023 performance in "Corsage." With acclaimed roles in Jonathan Glazer’s “The ...

More than a century after her death, Empress Elisabeth of Austria is enjoying an unprecedented pop-culture moment. She's the subject of hit Netflix series "The Empress," which was renewed for a second ...

After season 1 depicts Elisabeth's struggles to adjust to the harsh standards of life at court, season 2 jumps ahead to the birth of her second child when the royal family's legacy is in danger. Since ...

"Sissi" is moving to RTL. The network is showing all three films with Romy Schneider as Empress Elisabeth at Christmas 2025 in one go. Plus, there's a documentary about the real Sisi.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author Jac Jemc bout her new novel, "Empty Theatre." It's a satirical re-imagining of the relationship between King Ludwig of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Hungary. Portraits ...

It’s only about halfway through our interview when local writer and professor Jac Jemc admits she doesn’t understand people’s insatiable fascination with royalty. “I don’t pay attention to any of it, ...

Nearly 125 years after her assassination, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria — or Sisi to her enduring cultists — continues to inspire a veritable industry of portraiture in Europe: In the last year ...