1914 (film)

1931 film directed by Richard Oswald September 2026 1914 1914 (film).jpg Eugen Klöpfer (left) as Emperor Franz Josef Richard Oswald Richard Oswald Heinz Goldberg Fritz Wendhausen Albert Bassermann Hermann Wlach Wolfgang von Schwindt Reinhold Schünzel Paul Falkenberg Mutz Greenbaum Richard-Oswald-Produktion Atlas Film 1931 1 20 y 112 minutes Germany German 1914 (de 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Albert Bassermann, Hermann Wlach and Wolfgang von Schwindt. The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, culminating in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Gavrilo Princip.Prawer pp. 151–152 It was produced at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and premiered in the city at the Tauentzien-Palast on 20 January 1931. At the request of the German Foreign Office an introduction by Eugen Fischer-Baling de was filmed and presented at the start of the film. A special screening was held at the Reichstag on 3 March 1931. Cast Albert Bassermann as Count Bethmann-Hollweg Hermann Wlach as Count von Jagow Wolfgang von Schwindt as Count von Moltke Reinhold Schünzel as Czar Nicholas II Robert Hartberg as Count Hoyos Lucie Höflich as The Czarina Ferdinand Hart as Archduke Nicholas Oskar Homolka as Sazonov Adolf E. Licho as Suchomlinov Hans Peppler as Count Friedrich Pourtalès Theodor Loos as Paléologue Fritz Alberti as Buchanan Eugen Klöpfer as Emperor Franz Josef Alfred Abel as Count Berchtold Victor Jensen as Count Tisza Ferdinand von Alten as Viviani Bruno Ziener as Count von Schöen Heinrich George as Jean Jaurès Alexander Granach as Friend of Jaurès Paul Mederow as Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Fritz Odemar as Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky Carl Goetz as Jules Cambon Bernhard Goetzke as King Peter of Serbia Olaf Fjord as Crown Prince Alexander Adolf Klein as Pašić Lionel Royce as Maklakov Viktor de Kowa as Grand Duke Michael Paul Bildt as Nicolson Carl Balhaus as Gavrilo Princip Eugen Burg as Baron von Giesl Ernst Dernburg as A general Hugo Flink as von Szapary Alfred Gerasch as Conrad von Hötzendorff Karl Gerhardt as Eugen Kettler, Kammerdiener des Kaisers Fred Goebel as Grand Duke Dimitri Alice Hechy as Alexandra Alexandrowna Hermann Heilinger as Januskewitsch Heinrich Schroth as War Minister von Falkenhayn Karl Staudt as Count Szőgyény-Marich Ottó Torday as Count Stefan Tisza Michael von Newlinsky as Untersuchungsrichter Eugen Fischer-Baling as himself in prologue References Bibliography Prawer Siegbert Salomon Siegbert Salomon Prawer Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933 Berghahn Books 2005 New York 978-1-84545-074-8 External links 0020619 Category:1931 films Category:Films of the Weimar Republic Category:1931 drama films Category:1931 German-language films Category:Films directed by Richard Oswald Category:Films set in Berlin Category:Films set in Saint Petersburg Category:Films set in Vienna Category:Films set in London Category:Films set in 1914 Category:Films shot in Berlin Category:German docudrama films Category:German black-and-white films Category:Cultural depictions of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Category:Cultural depictions of Gavrilo Princip Category:Films about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Category:Cultural depictions of Franz Joseph I of Austria Category:Cultural depictions of Nicholas II of Russia Category:Films set in Sarajevo Category:Films with screenplays by Fritz Wendhausen Category:Films shot at Babelsberg Studios Category:Cultural depictions of Peter I of Serbia Category:Cultural depictions of Alexander I of Yugoslavia Category:Cultural depictions of Nikola Pašić Category:Films set in Austria-Hungary Category:1931 German films Category:German-language drama films