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| | Amazon.com: Mayerling to Sarajevo: Video: Max Ophüls,Edwige Feuillère,John Lodge,Aimé Clariond,Jean Worms,Jean ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | In June of 1914, fearing for his safety, Sophie seeks permission to accompany Franz to Sarajevo; protocol dictates that no army troops attend Franz while she is present. |
 | | The match is rejected by the court, but their love prevails through diplomatic compromise, social snubbing, and royal insult (in classic Ophüls fashion, we learn of their fate through conversations in opera boxes and servants gossiping behind closed palace doors). |
 | | Since the end of this particular story - the couple's assassination at Sarajevo - is so well-known, it is hardly a spoiler to discuss the tragedy, which forms the last sequence of the movie, here. |
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