Ludwig (the Mad King of Bavaria), the 1972 (released in the U.S. in 1973 as "Visconti's Ludwig: The Mad King of Bavaria" and in Germany as "Ludwig II") French/Italian/German fictionalized historical Bavaria royalty biographical melodrama ("Ludwig. He loved women. He loved men. He lived as controversially as he ruled. But he did not care what the world thought. He was the world."; "