France, Great Britain

THE ROYAL ROMANCE THAT SHATTERED A DYNASTY
Mayerling is a moving and passionate account of a love affair between Rudolf - Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - and the beautiful, twenty-one-year-old Baroness Maria Vetsera. Omar Sharif plays the rebellious Prince, bored with his wife and mistress and tormented by his position as heir to the Imperial throne; Catherine Deneuve the lovely young girl whose devotion meant more to than anything else he bad ever known. Tragically, the idyll of their exile at the magnificent royal hunting lodge at Mayerling was all too swiftly succeeded by disgrace and death.