Directed by: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: Lajos Balázsovits, Pamela Villoresi, Franco Branciaroli, Teresa Ann Savoy
Language: English
Country: Italy | Yugoslavia | Imdb Info

Also known as: Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù, Private Vices and Public Virtue

Description: Austria-Hungary, 1882-th year. After an unsuccessful attempt to organize a conspiracy against the conservative government of Emperor Franz Joseph, his son, Crown Prince Rudolf, the purpose of “lobbying” liberal indulgence in the Empire decided to provoke a grand political scandal. With the support of his two lovers – the half-sister and brother, Archduke dared to use one more try.

Accordance with the plan, the conspirators were invited to his residence, the castle Mayerling, all the “golden youth of the empire” – the representatives of the most respected families in the state. Watered guests intoxicating potion, the revolutionaries organized a mass orgy: guests, no longer control himself, willingly sought out the winds – svalnomu indulge in sin and mass fornication. All adultery photographed, so that later this compromising got to the Emperor, staunch guardian of morality.

But in the end unbridled adventures secular libertiantsev were brutally suppressed: the instigators of the first in the history of mankind sexual rebellion became the latest victim of government intrigue. Rudolf and his mistress Maria Evenings were killed imperial oprichniki. But the murder was presented as a suicide, the result of a personal tragedy Crown Prince, who allegedly could not marry a hermaphrodite, so lovers committed suicide…