“Sissi” is cherished by the general public. The success of the (very low cost) sequence continues impressed by the occasions of Elisabetta Amalia Eugenia de Wittelsbach, Duchess of Bavaria who was Empress of Austria, the very younger, lovely and unlucky spouse of Kaiser Franz Joseph I. Aired on Canale 5, Tuesday night the primary episode of the 2 within the third season hit the fictional broadcast “Alfredino” on Rai1. Tonight the second and last half.
Hers was a tragic story – her solely son and inheritor to the throne Rudolf dedicated suicide, she herself was killed in an anarchist assault – which instantly entered the favored creativeness: at first it was the romantic fairy story of the good love youth for the long run sovereign. , then the unhappiness and lack of ability to adapt to courtroom life, the intolerance of protocol, the incognito journeys away from Vienna, the priority for freedom and the obsession with magnificence. He lived in an important interval in European historical past, in the course of the Belle Époque, whereas political and social upheavals had been going down. For these causes he advised him many issues in many alternative methods. «Sissi is an icon – says the actor Dominique Davenport who performs her within the sequence –, a historic determine who’s well-known all through Central Europe. There are rivers of historic materials, paperwork, essays, photos and pictures about her; nevertheless it additionally impressed an actual narrative thread in its personal proper, simply as wealthy, made up of novels, poems, movies and tv sequence. After I tried to interpret her, she was like a ghost to me so I appreciated her historic actuality and her fairy-tale imagery.”
There are at the very least twenty titles – together with movies and sequence – that speak about him (many greater than these through which he seems “on the sidelines”) from the Twenties to the current day. The newest works particularly painting Elizabeth as a girl with actual traits: “The Empress’s Corset” outlines a nineteenth-century kind of Woman D, sad and anorexic, whereas within the nonetheless unpublished “Io e Sissi” (in theaters from 4 July ) director Frauke Finsterwalder paints a portrait of an unconventional, free and rebellious lady. And as a substitute the “Sissi” sequence focuses on romance regardless of having an correct historic background. “The most important problem I had – says the principle character of the sequence – was to exactly match the historic character that I researched by studying many works with the fictional one, to create a brand new Sissi, who was completely different from all of the others within the cinema. and he didn’t understand the lady she was.”
Within the third season (the fourth half is presently being labored on), on the middle of the story is thirty-year-old Sissi, a girl now mature however nonetheless lovely and stressed. The interval through which it’s set is the early 70s, additionally a really chaotic interval from the political standpoint, through which the connection between her and Franz breaks down and when little Rodolfo, whom the 2 are combating over, is nice hazard. «I see – concludes the actor – an peculiar lady who finds herself catapulted into an antipodal and barely loopy life, through which she should adapt by shifting from a easy life to the complicated balances of a classy and intriguing courtroom just like the one Viennese. . Due to the function she performs she should combine and be the empress that everybody needs. Nevertheless it’s an excessive amount of for her so she feels much more remoted.”
Swiss-American, former mannequin and dancer, Davenport will quickly return to Canale 5 with a brand new sequence, nonetheless in garments, however set within the years of the Nice Conflict, “Davos 1917”: in Switzerland formally impartial however within the coronary heart of the. of the continent and subsequently an ideal nest of spies and traffickers, she performs the function of a younger Swiss nurse who spies for the love of her stolen son.