Ludwig Details

Very disappointed

No doubt this film is great if you speak Italian and see it in a cinema, but I found the long thin strip of picture across my TV screen difficult to watch and I hate following sub titles. As it was about Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria it would have been easier for me if they had spoken German, a language I can understand!

I visited Neuschwanstein some 35 years ago and got a better feeling for the story from that visit than from this film.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Not like our own dear Royals?

Like a lot of others I thought that this film would be in German, not Italian, but after I got over this surprise I found it was very interesting and very well done. It shouldn’t have been a surprise, if I’d read the description properly.

I did find the dubbing of many of the leading actors into Italian a bit disconcerting, though, and wondered which languages the multi-national cast used when they were making the film. This diverted me at times from concentrating on the storyline as poor misunderstood King Ludwig descended into deeper depths of insanity and built another castle or two. I also noticed a certain resemblance between Helmut Berger as Ludwig and Johnny Depp and wondered if somebody might remake it with him as the star, but with all the cast talking the same language, please!