The real Empress Elisabeth Of Austria refused all portraits or photographs after the age of 40 to maintain her youthful public image.
Actress Vicky Krieps learned to fence, speak Hungarian, ice swim, and horseback ride in order to play Empress Elisabeth Of Austria, who was a famously skilled equestrian in her day.
This is one of five Austrian-German productions about Empress Elisabeth Of Austria to be released between 2021-2022. The others were Sisi (2021), Elisabeth (2022), The Empress (2022), and Sisi & I (2023) (the latter was announced in 2019 and was also filmed in 2021, but its release date had to be postponed to 2023 due to Corsage being released in Austria and Germany in 2022). Films, series and documentaries about Elisabeth of Austria are produced and released nearly every year by Austria and Germany since 1921; the first was Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich (1921).
Several scenes intentionally include anachronistic items, like emergency exit signs, a motorized tractor, a plastic mop and bucket, a french press style coffeepot or anachronistic music, like the song "Help Me Make it Through the Night", which was released over 90 years after the film's events. Elisabeth's anchor tattoo might seem anachronistic but it is actually historically accurate. Those intentional anachronisms/chronological inconsistencies had been previously used in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006), also a film about an Austrian consort royal from the Habsburg family, who died 44 years before Elisabeth was born.
Co-producer countries: Austria (58.62%), Luxembourg (21.34%), Germany (10.03%), France (10.01%). Source: UniFrance.