The Day That Shook the World

The Day That Shook the World SerboCroatian Sarajevski atentat, lit. The Sarajevo Assassination is a 1975 CzechoslovakYugoslavGerman coproduction 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.

The film was released to cinemas onOctober 1977 in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Englishlanguage 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.Despite an awesome title, The Day That Shook the World, is more quaint than explosive. As a dramatization of the events leading up to and including the royal murders that triggered World War I, it is a fragmented revival of the past that evolves largely as a picturesque adventure rather than as persuasive history. ........

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