Sissi facing his destiny

Sissi facing his destiny ( Sissi, Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin in German ) is an Austrian filmdirected by Ernst Marischka , released in 1957 . He was selected at the Cannes Film Festival .

The film is based on the love story of Empress Sissi , played by Romy Schneider , and the Emperor Franz Joseph , played by Karlheinz Böhm .

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The three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers is the most famous novels of Alexandre Dumas Sr., originally published in serial in the newspaper Le Siècle from March to July 1844 , then published in volume in 1844 by Baudry Editions and reissued in 1846 at JB Fellens and LP Dufour with illustrations of Vivant Beaucé . It is the first part of the novelist trilogy called “Musketeers”, to which he gives his name, followed by Twenty years later ( 1845 ) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne ( 1847 ).

The novel tells the adventures of an impecunious Gascon of 18, d’Artagnan , who came to Paris to make a career in the body of the musketeers . He became friends with Athos , Porthos and Aramis , Musketeers of King Louis XIII . These four men will oppose the prime minister, Cardinal Richelieu and his agents, including the Count of Rochefort and the beautiful and mysterious Milady de Winter , to save the honor of the Queen of France Anne of Austria .

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The Troy war

The Trojan War ( The Guerra di Troia ) is a Franco – Italian film ( peplum )directed by Giorgio Ferroni , released in 1961 .

The film is freely inspired by the ancient Greek myth of the Trojan War and in particular the Iliad , from which it departs by placing in the foreground the Trojan hero Aeneas, whose original adventures he develops.

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