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Day That Shook the World
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781557399694
Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 1557399697
Label: United Home
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language),
Manufacturer: United Home
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: United Home
Release Date: March 01, 2001
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: United Home
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - An all-around cheap looking production of an earth-shattering event!
One would think that "the shot heard 'round the world", the killing of Arch-Duke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on July 28, 1914 sparking WW1 would have somewhat a better treatment than this terribly cheap, voice-dubbed, badly acted, stupidly scripted.....ugh! How in the world did Christopher Plummer and Maximilian Schell ever end up in this 111 minute mess? Apart from the information that one gains in regards to the Bosnian struggle for freedom and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, this film is so incredibly ... Read More
Rating:  - Another well-produced but historically somewhat shaky take on Sarajevo 1914
For an incident that touched off one of the most devastating wars in humanity's history, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophie at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, has drawn relatively little attention from filmmakers. This is only the second of two movies I'm aware of on the topic - the first, which I've also reviewed, is De Mayerling a Sarajevo (From Mayerling to Sarajevo), a 1940 French offering from Max Ophuls.
Like that other film, this movie is also sumptuously ... Read More
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