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  • Film Movement Releasing Sissi (Romy Schneider) Boxed Set

    "In what will be the first Film Movement Classics box set, four films in new 2K restorations featuring the young Romy Schneider will be available in 2017. The films will include the original SISSI Trilogy (in HD) - SISSI (1955); SISSI: THE YOUNG EMPRESS (1956); and SISSI: THE FATEFUL YEARS OF AN EMPRESS (1957). Also included is an English-language dubbed film called FOREVER MY LOVE which was edited from the previous three SISSI films and released by Paramount Pictures in the U.S. in 1962 with a newly-written title song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The last film in the collection is THE STORY OF VICKIE (aka VICTORIA IN DOVER, also in HD) from 1954, which is a film about the young Queen Victoria, while the other films are about Princess (and later Empress) Elisabeth “Sissi” of Austria who was married to the Habsburg Emperor Franz Joseph. All the films were written and directed by Ernst Marischka and star Schneider. Like the princess films of today, the SISSI films were popular in the mid-'50s and remain a staple of holiday season programming on European television. The series was Schneider's breakthrough and established her as a European star. SISSI: THE YOUNG EMPRESS and SISSI: THE FATEFUL YEARS OF AN EMPRESS were also nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or upon their initial release."
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