Private Vices, Public Virtues
Emperor Franz Josef of Austria's son, Crown Prince Rudolf, is believed to have shot his female lover and himself in a tragic suicide pact in 1882. Due to Imperial cover-ups, the story may never be understood. This story was filmed several days, in French 1935 and in English in 1968. Director Miklos Jancso re-creates those events for their purposes, ongoing his favored subject of paternal authority's rejection. At the film, that has very small discussion, Rudolf can be really a good natured pan-sexual golden boy, who cavorts with a plethora of amazing, aristocratic lovers and friends of both sexes. He won't leave his country idyll even though he has been arranged to his father. Despite the fact for a large region of the film, attractive younger individuals participating in encounters and start unclothed, the mood is certainly one of melancholy rather than prurience.
Released: 1976-05-06