Crown Prince Rudolf, the son of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, is believed to have shot at his lover and himself at Mayerling at a suicide pact at 1882. As a result of Imperial coverups, the story might never be well known. This narrative has been filmed a few days, in French in 1935 and in English in 1968. Director Miklos Jancso recreates those events because of their purposes, continuing his theme of the rejection of authority. From Rudolf can be actually really a gold boy, that cavorts with a multitude of beautiful, aristocratic lovers and friends of both sexes on his rural estate. He won't leave his country idyll although he has been ordered to his daddy. Inspite of the fact that for a huge part of the film, attractive young men and women participating in sensual encounters and begin unclothed, the mood is one of melancholy as opposed to prurience.