An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914.
Production
Yugoslavia-built Sarajevo, 1914 — communist lens on capitalist empire's collapse.
Acting
Plummer's Franz Ferdinand: pompous, sympathetic, doomed.
Director
Veljko Bulajić
Christopher Plummer
Archduke Ferdinand
Florinda Bolkan
Sophie
Maximilian Schell
Đuro Šarac
Irfan Mensur
Gavrilo Princip
Radoš Bajić
Nedeljko Čabrinović
Jan Hrušínský
Trifko
Branko Đurić
Danilo Ilic
Libuše Šafránková
Jelena
Ivan Vyskočil
Mehmedbašić
Charles Millot
Otomar Korbelář
Emperor Franz Joseph
Jana Švandová
Dušan Blaškovič
Jiří Holý
Merizzi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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