The Fall of the Habsburgs
Synopsis
The Habsburg Dynasty had ruled large parts of Europe and the world for 650 years. During World War I, however, the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire sowed the seeds of its own demise. At the height of World War I, the world of the Habsburgs was on the brink of collapse. Almost exactly 100 years ago to the day, in April 1918, the most sensitive diplomatic mission of the First World War became a Europe-wide scandal: the so-called "Sixtus Affair". Secret negotiations between the Austrian imperial family and France were supposed to bring peace to the Danube monarchy – and their failure caused the war to escalate and the Habsburgs to fall.
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Top cast
Eszter Hollósi
Narrator
Dörte Lyssewski
Narrator
Dieter Witting
Narrator
Leopold Altenburg
Kaiser Karl
Daniela Golpashin
Kaiserin Zita
Raphael von Bargen
Tamás Graf Erdödy
Jens Claßen
King George V
Stanislaus Dick
Prinz Sixtus von Bourbon-Parma
Thomas Eichhorn
Außenminister Graf Ottokar Czernin
Hans Holzbecher
Kaiser Wilhelm II
