The Day That Shook the World

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.

The Day That Shook the World
American poster of the movie
Directed byVeljko Bulajić
Produced byVlado Brankovic
Bohumil Pokorný
Written byScreenplay:
Stevan Bulajić
Vladimír Bor
Paul Jarrico
Veljko Bulajić
StarringChristopher Plummer
Florinda Bolkan
Maximilian Schell
Music byJuan Carlos Calderón
Lubos Fiser
CinematographyJan Čuřík
Edited byRoger Dwyre
Production
company
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures (USA)
Release date
October 31, 1975
Running time
122 minutes
CountryCzechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Germany
LanguageCzech, Serbo-Croatian, English, German

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". 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.

Cast

Release

The film was released to cinemas on 31 October 1977 in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. English-language premieres were in January 1977 in the UK and US. American International Pictures released the movie in 1977 with English dubbing. Later in the 1990s the movie was released to VHS.

In November 2014 was released on DVD.

Awards

The film won one award at the 1976 San Sebastián International Film Festival in Special Mention category.[1] 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.[2]

See also

References
  1. "24 Edition 1976 Awards". San Sebastian Film Festival. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
  2. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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