This series is complete historical nonsense. The Empress didn't smoke. Maximilian, Franz Joseph's brother, did not intercede against him. The costumes are terrible. Sisi didn't fall in love with the Emperor, he fell in love with her; she didn't want to be an Empress. The new series and films show a completely wrong image of the empress with some obscene and tasteless scenes. One wants to bring down the beautiful image of Romy-Schneider as Empress Sissi, which wasn't all that wrong. Ernst Marischka did a good job. You should redo this trilogy and improve it a bit. That would be the right historical film. You don't make a fictional film with historical events and historical people. This is falsification of history. We share many of the negative comments here about this series. It's a shame about the hassle and the money.
Post scriptum: A film called THE EMPRESS was already planned by Warner Bros. In 2014, but it didn't materialize due to disagreements about the implementation. In fact, there should be a new good and historically correct film about the Empress Elisabeth of Austria. We have been proposing this for a long time (W. & R. Hain, Sisi researcher und book authors, Vienna, Austria).
Post scriptum: A film called THE EMPRESS was already planned by Warner Bros. In 2014, but it didn't materialize due to disagreements about the implementation. In fact, there should be a new good and historically correct film about the Empress Elisabeth of Austria. We have been proposing this for a long time (W. & R. Hain, Sisi researcher und book authors, Vienna, Austria).