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Sissi Fateful Years of an Empress Sissi Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin is a 1957 film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Bhm, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth and Josef Meinrad, costumes by Gerdagode Gerda Gottschlich. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. It is the last film in the Sissi trilogy, following Sissi 1955 and Sissi The Young Empress 1956. The director Ernst Marischka planned a fourth film, but Schneider refused to play Sissi any longer. She appearedyears later again as Empress Elisabeth in Luchino Viscontis 1972 film Ludwig.

Ernst Marischka planned at least one more Sissi film, but Romy Schneider refused to participate in it despite the urging of her mother, Magda Schneider, who portrays Sissis mother Princess Ludovika in all three films of the existing trilogy.

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