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Sissi – The Young Empress

Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin

1956

Newly crowned empress of Austria, the free-spirited Sissi struggles to master court etiquette and to hold her own against a formidable mother-in-law who means to run the throne. The lush second chapter of the beloved royal romance.

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