Sarajevo (1940 French film)

Sarajevo
Directed by Max Ophüls
Produced by Edward Halton
Eugène Tucherer
Written by Carl Zuckmayer
Marcelle Maurette
Curt Alexander
André-Paul Antoine
Jacques Natanson
Starring Edwige Feuillère
John Lodge
Aimé Clariond
Jean Worms
Music by Oscar Straus
Cinematography Curt Courant
Otto Heller
Edited by Myriam Borsoutsky
Jean Oser
Production
company
B.U.P. Française
Distributed by Compagnie Cinématographique de France
Release dates
  • 1 May 1940
Running time
95 minutes
Country France
Language French

Sarajevo (French:De Mayerling à Sarajevo) is a 1940 French historical film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Edwige Feuillère, John Lodge and Aimé Clariond. Beginning in the aftermath of the Mayerling Incident the film portrays the love affair and marriage between Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, leading up to their eventual assassination in 1914 in events that triggered the First World War. The film was not a commercial or critical success.[1] Following the German occupation of France the film was banned, and Ophüls fled into exile for the second time.

Partial cast

References

  1. Larson p.211

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