COLOGNE, Germany -- German director Michael Bully Herbig is turning to 3-D animation for his next film, Lissi und der wilde Kaiser (Lissi and the Wild Kaiser), a parody of German Heimat films -- rural melodramas popular in the years after World War II. Herbig announced the title of his highly anticipated new film to an industry crowd Tuesday night at the Munich Film Week. Lissi will be a parody of costume melodramas, in particular the Austrian Sissi trilogy of the 1950s, which starred Romy Schneider as a teenage princess caught between love and royal responsibilities.
- 1/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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