• Director: Veljko Bulajic
  • Release Year: 1975
  • Production Country: Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, West Germany
  • Language: Serbian

Sarajevski atentat (The Day That Shook the World)

Description

As the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie inspect Austrian troops in Sarajevo, Serbian nationalists plot in the background, looking for a way to free the southern Slavs from Austrian control and establish a pan-Serbian nation in the Balkans—and on the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, one Bosnian finds himself in the right place at the right time to strike.

Themes

Kingdom of Serbia (1882 – 1918), Franz Ferdinand (1863 – 1914), World War I (1914 – 1918), Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867 – 1918), House of Habsburg, Gavrilo Princip (1894 – 1918), Serbs, Assassinations, Unification or Death / Black Hand, Terrorism, Urban warfare, Political intrigue, Balkans, Battle of Kosovo (15 June 1389), Nationalism, Bosnia