Before Bridgerton, before The Crown, there was Sisi. The real-life, 19th-century royal romance between Elizabeth "Sisi" of Bavaria and her husband, Austrian-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph, was turned into a series of iconic films in the 1950s, starring legendary Austrian actress Romy Schneider as Sisi.
Now, leading German commercial broadcaster RTL Group and Beta Film, a producer on Babylon Berlin, are rebooting the Sisi story for a new generation.
Swiss-American actress Dominique Devenport (Night Train to Lisbon) will star as Sisi, a tomboy princess who falls head over heels for Franz Joseph but finds the Hapsburg court in Vienna to be a backstabbing viper pit.
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