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Shortly after moving to Vienna, Austria with her diplomat husband, a woman is stalked and terrorized by a mysterious razor-wielding maniac, with people around her getting killed one by one.

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth Of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.

Austrian avant-garde theatre director Kurt Palm adaption of Flann O'Brien's beer-soaked, brilliantly funny, modernist masterpiece for the screen.

Christl's aunt urges her to marry Dr. Heider. Although she hardly knows him, Christl accepts - mainly to escape her overprotective aunt. But since she doesn't want to live with her new husband, she switches roles with her self-assured twin sister Annelie, who promises to get rid of him in just a week. Meanwhile Christl substitutes her in her job as secretary of a componist. Of course both get into their roles and start to like their exchanged men...