Vittoria Puccini in The Crown Prince (2006)

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The Crown Prince (2006) tells the story of Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir to the happening Hapsburg monarchy in the go-go close of the nineteenth century. He's German actor Max von Thun, and he's doomed: Rudolf died under strange circumstances with his teen tail, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889. The film tells the tale of the years before the archduke's arch-demise, beginning with Max's unhappy marriage to Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (Daniela Golpashin). He's a lonely lad stuck in an arranged hookup . . . and then he starts getting nookie from the young baroness, Vittoria Puccini (who can be seen briefly barin' ass before a big window). The two fall in love, but their love is forbidden in more ways than the usual—the royal-pain-in-the-ass royals are against their union. By the end, their only way out is violence, Austro-Hungarian style.