Private Vices Public Virtues [Blu-ray]

Director: Miklós Jancsó, Miklos Jancso Miklós Jancsó

Overview

The son of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, Crown Prince Rudolf, is believed to have shot his female lover and himself in a tragic suicide pact in 1882 in Mayerling. Due to Imperial cover-ups, the full story may never be known. This story has been filmed several times, in French in 1935 and in English in 1968. Hungarian director Miklos Jancso recreates those events for his own purposes, continuing his favored theme of the rejection of paternal authority. In the film, which has very little dialog, Rudolf is a good-natured pan-sexual golden boy, who cavorts on his rural estate with a host of beautiful, aristocratic lovers and friends of both sexes. He refuses to leave his country idyll even though he has been ordered to by the Emperor, his father. Despite the fact that for a large part of the film, attractive young people go about unclothed and engaging in erotic encounters, the mood is one of melancholy rather than prurience. The Prince is a political liberal who wishes to arrange things so that the Emperor will arrest him, creating a public scandal which will provide a rallying point for the opposition. Instead, when the expected troops come, Rudolf's sensuous friends loyally ward off the Imperial officers, humiliating them in the process. The result is that the guests, the Prince and a hermaphrodite friend are killed by newly arrived Imperial reinforcements, and the now-familiar official story of murder and suicide is concocted for public consumption.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/08/2016
UPC:	0843276016791
Original Release:	1976
Rating:	NR
Source:	Mondo Macabro
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	24,266

Special Features

Brand new HD transfers from original negative; Interviews with Writer Giovanna Gagliardo; Interview with actress Pamela Villorei; Interview with film historian Michael Brooke; Original theatrical trailer; Mondo Macabra previews

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Franco Branciaroli	Duke
Lajos Balázsovits	Crown Prince
Laura Betti	Therese
Pamela Villoresi	Sofia
Teresa Ann Savoy	Mary
Ivica Pajer	General
Cesare Barro	Actor
Demeter Bitenc	Actor
Zvonimir Crnko	Actor
Susanna Javicoli	Actor
Luigi Marturano	Actor
Marino Matota	Actor
Gloria Piedimonte	Actor
Aniko Safar	Actor
Umberto Silva	Actor
Ilona Staller	Actor
Ivan Tchenko	Actor
Andrija Tunjic	Actor
Lajos Balazsovits	Actor
Francesco De Masi	Composer

Technical Credits

Miklós Jancsó

Giovanna Gagliardo

Miklós Jancsó	Director,Screenwriter
Giovanna Gagliardo	Screenwriter
Miklos Jancso	Director