Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer\u2019s costume drama\u00a0Corsage\u00a0and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as\u00a0the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.<\/p>\n
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.<\/p>\n
Affectionately known as Sisi, Empress Elisabeth of Austria was one of the most high-profile royals of her time, admired and scrutinised by all.\u00a0 Her\u00a0life has inspired numerous films and dramas over the years, most famously Ernst Marischka\u2019s trilogy starring Romy Schneider.<\/p>\n
Kreutzer has decided to focus on a short period of the empress\u2019s life around Christmas 1877 when she turned 40, an age considered old for women at the time<\/p>\n
\u201dMarie Kreutzer\u2019s bold vision\u00a0delivers a timely reflection on\u00a0a woman\u2019s worth and agency,\u00a0she pulls back the curtain on Sissi\u00a0revealing the\u00a0modern aspirations\u00a0and darkest secrets\u00a0of this disruptive\u00a0early influencer,\u201d said mk2 films head of sales Fionnaula Jamison.<\/p>\n
Krieps is joined in the cast by Florian Teichtmeister as husband Emperor Joseph, Manuel Rubey as cousin and close friend Ludwig II, King of Bavaria and Katharina Lorenz as lady-in-waiting and confidante Marie Festetics.<\/p>\n
The film is being produced by Alexander Glehr and Johanna Scherz of Vienna-based Film AG. The company produced\u00a0Kreutzer\u2019s fifth feature, the contemporary drama The Ground Beneath My Feet\u00a0which world premiered in competition at the Berlinale in 2019.<\/p>\n
Bernard Michaux at Luxembourg\u2019s Samsa Film, Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornach and Maren Ade at Germany\u2019s Komplizen Film and Jean-Christophe Reymond at France\u2019s Kazak Productions are on board as co-producers.<\/p>\n
Samsa\u2019s Jani Thiltges and Claude Waringo and Kazak\u2019s Amaury Ovise take associate producer credits.<\/p>\n
Munich-based Alamode has acquired German-speaking rights for a planned 2022 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer\u2019s costume drama\u00a0Corsage\u00a0and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as\u00a0the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":46290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n