About
Recording of a Dutch performance of the musical Elisabeth. It portrays the life and death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as "Sisi", the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I, from her engagement and marriage in 1854 to her murder in 1898 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni; it focuses on her growing obsession with death, as her marriage and the empire crumble around her just before the turn of the 20th century.
Director
Eddy Habbema
Producer
Studio
Joop van den Ende producties
Original Title
Elisabeth De Musical
Original Language
Dutch
Cast
Full credits →P
Pia Douwes
Keizerin Elisabeth
S
Stanley Burleson
De Dood
W
Wim Van Den Driessche
Luigi Lucheni
J
Jeroen Phaff
Keizer Frans Jozef I
D
Doris Baaten
Aartshertogin Sophie van Beieren
N
Nico Schaap
Hertog Maximiliaan Jozef
R
René van Kooten
M
Marleen Van Der Loo
C
Céline Purcell
M
Marianne Van der Veken