HISTORICAL MOVIES:  AUSTRIA

 

 

Amadeus (1984) -- 1762, Mozart, musical genius

 

Marie Antoinette (2006) 

Marie Antoinette (1955)  -- French film

Marie Antoinette (1938)  --  daughter of Francis II of Austria; wife of Louis XVI

 

Senso (1968) --  Italy 1855, Austrian military occupation

 

 

 

BEFORE WWI

Fall of Eagles (1974) (TV miniseries)  --  part of it deals with Bismarck and the unification of Germany and fall of Habsburgs of Austria-Hungary

Mayerling (1936)  -- 1889, Austrian, Crown Prince Rudolph, son of Emperor Franz Joseph

Mayerling (1969) -- marries commoner Mary Vetsera

 

WORLD WAR I

Fall of Eagles (1974) (TV miniseries)  --  fall of Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov dynasties in WWI

The Day That Shook the World (1977) -- events leading up to WWI

The Guns of August (1964) -- events leading up to WWI

Colonel Redl (1985)  --  Austrian-Hungarian Empire

And the Ship Sails On  (1983)  --  Serbian war refugees

 

WORLD WAR II

The Sound of Music (1965) -- singing group escapes from Austria after Nazi takeover