1877年圣诞节，奥地利万人敬仰的茜茜公主迎来了她40岁的生日。虽然贵为奥地利与匈牙利的皇后和弗朗茨·约瑟夫一世皇帝的妻子，她却没有表达自我的权利，只需保持美丽和年轻的状态即可。为了满足人们的这些期待，她一直在严格地节食、健身、美发、每日测量腰围。这些规则令她感到窒息，她渴望知识和生活，不愿只做一个美丽的花瓶，因此开始越来越频繁地打破这个形象。

Art as propaganda and propaganda as art: Joseph Goebbels understood early on that film is an important weapon of ideological warfare. The images that resulted continue to shape our perception of the Nazi era today. FÜHRER UND VERFÜHRER pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of power and alternates between dramatized scenes, archival footage, and eyewitness accounts.