It stars Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, Finnegan Oldfield, Aaron Friesz, Rosa Hajjaj, Lilly Marie Tschörtner, and Colin Morgan.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria is semi-estranged from her philandering husband Emperor Franz Joseph, with whom she unhappily celebrates her 40th birthday.

After Bay rejects her, realizing her vanity, Elisabeth returns to Vienna and attempts to physically reconnect with Franz but fails; she later hears rumors of his affair with a much younger woman.

After Rudolf leaves for Prague to begin his military education, Elisabeth expresses a desire to depart with Valerie, angering Franz.

In February 2021, it was announced Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Manuel Rubey, and Katharina Lorenz had joined the cast of the film, with Marie Kreutzer directing from a screenplay she wrote.

[10] On 18 June 2022, Austrian director Katharina Mückstein shared an Instagram story that read: "Tonight a perpetrator will be on stage and will be applauded.

[15][16] No name was given, but the only event of that kind taking place in Austria that night was the premiere of Corsage in Vienna, which led to speculation that Mückstein was referring to someone who worked in this film.

[16] Mückstein's Instagram story inspired several women to share their own experiences with sexual harassment, sexism, racism, homophobia and abuses of power in the Austrian film and theatre community, which generated a lot of media attention and sparked a new wave of the MeToo movement in Austria.

One should stick to the facts, because passing on rumors can seriously damage people; I appreciate Katharina Mückstein extremely for her attitude and her commitment to film politics, we are definitely on the same side.

[16] On 9 January 2023, lead actress and executive producer Vicky Krieps was asked about the alleged abuser in the cast of Corsage on Instagram.

[21] On 13 January 2023, it was reported that actor Florian Teichtmeister [de] (who portrayed Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in Corsage) has been charged with possession of child pornography.

[22][23][24] In the middle of Summer 2021,[25] Teichtmeister's girlfriend at the time discovered a pornographic image of a child on his cell phone and informed the police.

[22] During a search of Teichtmeister's apartment, police found around 58,000 files with pornographic depictions of minors in a total of 22 data carriers such as laptops, desktops, mobile phones, USB sticks and memory cards collected between February 2008 and August 2021.

[22] The investigators found no evidence that Teichtmeister had passed on data,[22] but he is said to have taken photos of minors himself at film locations and subsequently arranged them into collages with speech bubbles with pornographic content.

[22] Teichtmeister's lawyer said that he is accused of a "purely digital crime", meaning that he has not committed any criminal acts against people.

[27] Following the scandal and public outrage, Austrian politicians tightened the penalties for acquiring, possessing and passing on or trading in depictions of abuse.

"[22] On 15 January 2023, Kreutzer released a statement saying that she was "sad and angry that a feminist film that more than 300 people from all over Europe worked on for years may be tarnished and damaged by the horrific actions of one person".

[35] Rumors about Teichtmeister had been circulating in the Austrian press since September 2021, when daily newspaper Der Standard published an article reporting that there was talk of a "successful local theater and film actor who is said to be hoarding child pornographic material".

[39] Kronen Zeitung also reported that the fact that Corsage remained as Austria's candidate for the Oscars following the charges against Teichtmeister has divided opinions in the country.

[34] Austrian newspaper Exxpress reported on 15 January 2023 that another actor from Corsage has been accused of sexual assault by an anonymous insider of the film industry.

[37] The following day, the "We_do" issued a statement saying the article made it look like they are a relief for the people who caused the abuse, which they are not, and that it can even be part of an overall strategy of manipulation.

[46] On 20 January 2023, German magazine Der Spiegel reported that at least three women have accused the unnamed actor of psychological, physical and sexual violence.

"[47] Shortly before the Vienna premiere of Corsage in June 2022, the women tried to talk to Kreutzer, who canceled three suggested dates for the meeting claiming she did not have time for it.

[35] In the same interview, Kreutzer made sure to say that this actor is not Manuel Rubey, and that without a name it not only harms Corsage but also his male colleagues in the film if he does not identify himself.

The website's consensus reads, "Corsage puts a refreshingly irreverent spin on period biopic formulas, further elevated by Vicky Krieps' terrific turn in the central role".