在这部路德维希二世：一位君主的潮起潮落剧情/传记/历史片中,故事发生在19世纪下半叶的德国，彼时的德意志正面临着统一的命运。路德维希二世（奥托·威廉·费舍尔 O.W. Fischer 饰）是统治南德意志邦国巴伐利亚的君主，和其他野心勃勃的国王不同，路德维希二世是一位彻头彻尾的浪漫主义者，他对玩弄政治权谋深恶痛绝，幻想着通过文化和艺术来统治国家。他相信，唯一能够给国民们带来幸福的，从来都不是战争和侵略，而是美与和平。
怀揣着这样天真的幻想，路德维希二世的仕途当然屡遭挫折，他心爱的茜茜公主（玛丽安妮·柯奇 Marianne Koch 饰）也最终成为了奥地利的新娘。在痛失爱侣之后，路德维希二世不顾幕僚的反对，一头扎进了对于童话城堡的建造之中。
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament's will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. His love-life being as fruitless, he seeks comfort in art. But building fairytale castles and an even grander opera for his musical idol Wagner proves so expensive, his cabinet ends up resorting to formally challenging his mental health, plausible as his beloved brother Otto contracted schizophrenia earlier. Tragedy now lurks in Ludwig's prison-castle.
斯人已逝。造夢城堡。
