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The Day That Shook the World (Serbo-Croatian: ''Sarajevski atentat, lit. The Sarajevo Assassination'') is a 1975 Czechoslovak-Yugoslav-German co-production film directed by Veljko Bulajić, starring Christopher Plummer and Florinda Bolkan. The film is about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914 and the immediate aftermath that led to the outbreak of World War I. When the only surviving heir to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was killed by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, on 28 June 1914, his death set in motion a chain of events that resulted in the First World War. The movie chronicles the events surrounding that death and its aftermath. The assassination gave the Germans and Austrians reason to fear that the Russian Empire was actively fomenting unrest in the Balkans, since Serbia was a bone of contention throughout the region. Upon its release, The Day That Shook the World was met with mixed reviews. The New York Times critic described the film as a "footnote to history that is rarely moving".[citation needed] The movie was dubbed in theatres (USA - English, Czechoslovakia - Czech, Germany - German) and has aired only once on television, on Czechoslovak Television two years after its release in cinemas.
Original Release
10/31/1975
US Release
01/23/1977
Cast
Name | Character |
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Christopher Plummer | Archduke Ferdinand |
Florinda Bolkan | Sophie |
Maximilian Schell | Djuro Sarac / Đuro Šarac |
Irfan Mensur | Gavrilo Princip |
Rados Bajic | Nedeljko Cabrinovic / Nedeljko Čabrinović |
Ivan Vyskocil | Mehmedbasic / Mehmedbašić |
Libuše Šafránková | Jelena |
Otomar Korbelár | Emperor Franz Joseph |
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge | Franz Conrad |
Jiří Holý | Merizzi |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Christopher Plummer | Archduke Ferdinand |
Florinda Bolkan | Sophie |
Maximilian Schell | Djuro Sarac / Đuro Šarac |
Irfan Mensur | Gavrilo Princip |
Rados Bajic | Nedeljko Cabrinovic / Nedeljko Čabrinović |
Ivan Vyskocil | Mehmedbasic / Mehmedbašić |
Libuše Šafránková | Jelena |
Otomar Korbelár | Emperor Franz Joseph |
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge | Franz Conrad |
Jiří Holý | Merizzi |
Nelly Gaierová | Countess Langus |
Jirí Kodet | Morsley |
Dusan Blaskovic | |
Zdenek Braunschläger | |
Otakar Brousek | |
Jirina Bílá | |
Jordanco Cevrevski | Sava |
Miroslav Chochola | Officer |
Alois Curík | |
Rejhan Demirdzic |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Samuel Z. Arkoff | Executive Producer |
Sulejman Kapic | Executive Producer |
Oliver A. Unger | Executive Producer |