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.
Acting
Heinrich George's doomed idealist steals every scene.
Production
Surprisingly lavish sets for early German sound cinema.
Director
Richard Oswald
Heinrich George
Jean Jaurès
Albert Bassermann
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Eugen Klöpfer
Franz Joseph I.
Oskar Homolka
Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sasonow
Lucie Höflich
Alexandra
Alfred Abel
Leopold Graf Berchtold
Theodor Loos
Paléologue
Fritz Alberti
Buchanan
Heinrich Schroth
Erich von Falkenhayn
Reinhold Schünzel
Nikolaus II.
Fritz Odemar
Lichnowsky
Viktor de Kowa
Michael
Paul Bildt
Arthur Nicolson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made just twelve years after the actual events, with some cast members having lived through the war. The proximity makes performances unusually raw.
Banned in Nazi Germany for its sympathetic portrayal of French socialist Jaurès and its implicit critique of militarism. Director Oswald fled to France in 1933.
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