The fuse is lit . . . the seconds tick away . . .
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.
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
Christopher Plummer Florinda Bolkan Maximilian Schell Irfan Mensur Radoš Bajić Jan Hrušínský Branko Đurić Libuše Šafránková Ivan Vyskočil Charles Millot Otomar Korbelář Jana Švandová Dušan Blaškovič Zdenka Heršak Jiří Holý Rejhan Demirdžić Nelly Gaierová Hans Klering Hannjo Hasse Jiří Kodet Wilhelm Koch-Hooge Miloš Nedbal Viktor Maurer Werner Wieland Luba Skořepová Veljko Mandić Miroslav Krejča Filip Hlušička Tereza Kučerová J. Venc Zdeněk Braunschläger Zdeněk Dolanský Jan Kuželka Alena Janošková Alois Čuřík Pavel Jiras Otto Ohnesorg Karel Peyr Jan Pohan Josef Střecha Bohumil Šmída Jaroslav Tomsa Karel Hovorka Jiřina Bílá B. Brandejsová H. Grimmová H. Maierová Jarmila Navrátilová Markéta Sodomková Irena Tichá Isabella Tylínková Ilona Jirotková J. Havle T. Fabián J. Hochmuth J. Hort J. Kryl František Linhart J. Rychetský St. Šimák Zdeněk Skalický Hanuš Bárta Miroslav Chochola Š. Kadár Jiří Kosek L. Lhota Václav Luks V. Mihalisko Václav Podhorský Karel Sekera J. Vágner J. Kroutilová K. Fiala Zdenko Mužík M. Ubl A. Brych F. Roušal J. Arnošt Jiří Zelenka F. Novák L. Lánský L. Hájek K. Pecina V. Nádherný Otto Plocek J. Louda Milan Vitina Eugen Jegorov E. Lakatoš B. Ondráček B. Šilhan Zdeněk Vašátko Vladimír Pospíšil Stanislav Hájek Jordančo Čevrevski Miloš Kandić Uroš Kravljača Bato Radulović Safet Pašalić Zdeněk Srstka Karel Engel František Jákl Petr Jákl Gustav Jankovský Miroslav Jíra Jiří Kalenský Jaroslav Klenot Jiří Klenot P. Kolář Zbyněk Krákora Antonín Kramerius Ladislav Lahoda Josef Pechanec Jindřich Sejk Oldřich Semerák Jiří Sládek Jaroslav Šanda A. Vachek Jiří Vach Jan Váňa Karel Vítek Jaroslav Vlk Ludvík Wolf
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