---
title: 'The Day That Shook the World (1975)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Veljko Bulajić'
released: '1975-10-31'
runtime_minutes: 122
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Yugoslavia'
  - 'Czechoslovakia'
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-day-that-shook-the-world-1975'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073660/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Day That Shook the World (1975)

1975 · 122 min · Drama, History · Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Germany

Original title: Sarajevský atentát

## Synopsis

The Day That Shook the World 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Veljko Bulajić](https://cinepixo.com/people/veljko-bulajic)
- **Screenplay:** [Veljko Bulajić](https://cinepixo.com/people/veljko-bulajic), [Paul Jarrico](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-jarrico), [Vladimír Bor](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-bor)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Luboš Fišer](https://cinepixo.com/people/lubos-fiser), [Juan Carlos Calderón](https://cinepixo.com/people/juan-carlos-calderon)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jan Čuřík](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-curik)
- **Editor:** [Roger Dwyre](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-dwyre)

## Cast

- [Jindřich Sejk](https://cinepixo.com/people/jindrich-sejk)
- [Werner Wieland](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-wieland)
- [František Linhart](https://cinepixo.com/people/frantisek-linhart)
- [Pavel Jiras](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavel-jiras)
- [Ladislav Lahoda](https://cinepixo.com/people/ladislav-lahoda)
- [Veljko Mandić](https://cinepixo.com/people/veljko-mandic)
- [Petr Štěpánek](https://cinepixo.com/people/petr-stepanek)
- [Isabella Tylínková](https://cinepixo.com/people/isabella-tylinkova)
- [Maximilian Schell](https://cinepixo.com/people/maximilian-schell)
- [Vladimír Pospíšil](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-pospisil)
- [Florinda Bolkan](https://cinepixo.com/people/florinda-bolkan)
- [Libuše Šafránková](https://cinepixo.com/people/libuse-safrankova)
- [Tereza Kučerová](https://cinepixo.com/people/tereza-kucerova)
- [Miloš Nedbal](https://cinepixo.com/people/milos-nedbal)
- [Bohumil Šmída](https://cinepixo.com/people/bohumil-smida)

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