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Sisi: Austrian Empress
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Meet Sisi, Europe's first superstar. With her beauty, love of freedom and promise to give the Habsburg monarchy a gentler face, this legendary empress inspired the whole of the continent. From Walter Presents, in German with English subtitles.
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51:11
After the death of her daughter, Sisi urges Franz to negotiate with Napoleon.
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51:14
An assassination attempt on the Emperor makes him desperate for revenge.
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Franz's call to arms against Hungary gets the population riled up against him.
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Sisi struggles in her role as empress and does what she can to please her husband.
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52:58
In a twist of fate, Sisi falls in love with the emperor, and goes to Vienna to marry him.
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52:44
Sisi travels to Bad Ischl for her sister’s engagement to the Emperor of Austria.