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'The Day That Shook the World' (, lit. 'The Sarajevo Assassination') is a 1975 Czechoslovak-Yugoslav-German co-production film directed by Veljko Bulaji, 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.

Cast



* Christopher Plummer as Archduke Franz Ferdinand

* Florinda Bolkan as Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

* Maximilian Schell as uro arac

* Irfan Mensur as Gavrilo Princip

* Rado Baji as Nedeljko abrinovi

* Ivan Vyskoil as Mehmed Mehmedbai

* Libue afrnkov as Yelena

* Otomar Korbel as Franz Joseph I of Austria

* Wilhelm Koch-Hooge as Franz Conrad

* Ji Hol as Erich von Merizzi

* as Countess Langus

* Ji Kodet as Morsley

Release



The film was released to cinemas on October 31, 1975. In addition to Yugoslavia, it was released to Bulgaria, West Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, USSR, Algeria, Lebanon, India, Nepal, Albania, and China. It was released to the United States two years later.http://hrfilm.hr/baza_fil American International Pictures

On January 6, 2011, it was released on DVD.

Awards



The film won one award at the 1976 San Sebastin International Film Festival in the Special Mention category. The film was also selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The film also earned director Veljko Bulajic a Silver Arena award at the 1976 Yugoslav National Film Awards (today known as the Pula Film Festival).

See also



* List of submissions to the 48th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

* List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References




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