SISI & I

Year
2023
In co-production with
C-Films, DOR Film, DCM, BR/ARTE, SWR
Director
Frauke Finsterwalder
Screenplay
Frauke Finsterwalder, Christian Kracht
Starring
Sandra Hüller, Susanne Wolff, Georg Friedrich, Stefan Kurt, Sophie Hutter, Markus Schleinzer, Angela Winkler, Sibylle Canonica, Maresi Riegner
Awards
World premiere at Berlin International Film Festival 2023, German Film Award 2023: Best Costume Design (Tanja Hausner)
Festivals

Berlin International Film Festival / Festival of German Films Madrid / San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival / Jerusalem Film Festival / Göteborg Film Festival / Golden Horse Film Festival / Queer Lisboa / Bergen International Film Festival

Sisi (Susanne Wolff) has reached the last half of her life. Countess Irma (Sandra Hüller) finds her in an aristocratic women-only commune in Greece, a whole universe away from the strict etiquette of Austria-Hungary´s court. Sisi lives in absolute freedom, in which neither her children nor her husband Emperor Franz Joseph (Georg Friedrich) play any sort of role.

The only important thing is that no one should ever be bored and that the empress herself decides the rules of the game. Irma is captivated by the charismatic Sisi and her modern ideas. But the outside world is reaching out to break Sisi. And no matter how much Irma and Sisi resist, in the end they are left with only one fatal path that will bind the two women together forever.