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A dramatisation of the tormented Bavarian King Ludwig's brief but colourful reign, from his loves for Elisabeth of Austria and composer Richard Wagner to his ever-growing madness and subsequent death. Read more

Starring Silvana Mangano, Gert Frobe, Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard
Director Luchino Visconti
Genres Drama, World Cinema

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Ludwig

A dramatisation of the tormented Bavarian King Ludwig's brief but colourful reign, from his loves for Elisabeth of Austria and composer Richard Wagner to his ever-growing madness and subsequent death.

Starring Silvana Mangano, Gert Frobe, Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Romy Schneider, Helmut Griem
Director Luchino Visconti
Studio INFINITY
Run time DVD: 3 hrs 50 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 12.gif
Genres Drama, World Cinema
Language Italian
Subtitles English
Released DVD: 19 Jun 2006
Production year: 1972
Format DVD

Ludwig (1972)

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  • Critics' reviews (2) of Ludwig

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  • Interested only in Ludwig of Bavaria as a neurotic individual, Visconti centres everything on the king's fears,... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
  • Visconti's baroque and grandiloquent epic

    • The Guardian
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  • 8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    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.

      • A customer from Cornwall
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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars [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!

      • barbi
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