Corsage imagines the last year in the life of an empress who has just turned forty and been told, in the language of her era, that her usefulness is over.

What is Corsage about?

Vicky Krieps plays Empress Elisabeth of Austria as she crosses into her forties in the winter of 1877, a milestone the court of the time treats as an ending rather than a milestone. Once celebrated across Europe purely for her beauty, she now finds that same fame turning against her, every public appearance measured against a younger image of herself. Marie Kreutzer's film follows Elisabeth through fencing lessons, family obligations, travel, and small private rebellions as she tests how much of her old public self she is willing to keep performing. It is a costume drama that treats its historical setting as a frame for a very modern question about image, aging, and control, rather than a straightforward biography of the woman known to history as Sisi.

About the cast

Vicky Krieps anchors the film opposite Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, and Finnegan Oldfield, with Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, and Aaron Friesz rounding out the imperial household.

Context & significance

The film comes from Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, and Luxembourg, a co-production spread that reflects how much of Elisabeth's real story played out across the region she once ruled. Marie Kreutzer directs a script that leans into anachronism on purpose, using modern touches inside a nineteenth-century setting to keep the empress's isolation feeling immediate rather than distant. Running 113 minutes, the film sits at the crossroads of biography, drama, and history, closer in spirit to a character study than a costume-drama checklist of dates and battles.

Watching Corsage on Ktime

Corsage streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, both included for viewers who want either option. A free K-Time account is all that is needed to watch, and the film's page itself is open to browse without logging in first. K-Time's Farsi-language interface is built for the diaspora audience, so browsing, searching, and settings all read naturally in Persian alongside the original German-language dialogue.