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Gavrilo Princip (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, pronounced [ɡǎʋrilo prǐntsip]; 25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip (Serbian: Branio sam Mladu Bosnu) is a 2014 Serbian film directed by Srđan Koljević. The film is based on the true story of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. The main character is Rudolf Zistler, a lawyer who defended Gavrilo Princip and the rest of the members of Young Bosnia.
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When the only surviving heir to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was killed by Gavrilo Princip, a Yugoslav nationalist, on 28 June 1914, his death set in motion a chain of events that resulted in the First World War. The movie chronicles the events surrounding that death and its aftermath.
Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo, 1914. Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo, also erroneously identified as The Arrest of Gavrilo Princip, is a historically significant photograph that captured the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
The Vidovdan Heroes Chapel is a Serbian Orthodox chapel and mausoleum located on the Holy Archangels Georgije and Gavrilo Orthodox Cemetery located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The crypt of the chapel contains the bodily remains of Gavrilo Princip and other members of Young Bosnia who took part in the assassination of Archduke Franz ...
This Grave Is Too Small for Me (Serbian: Mali mi je ovaj grob, alternatively given translations such as This Tomb Is Too Small) is a dramatic stage production, written by Serbian playwright Biljana Srbljanović, that focuses on assassin Gavrilo Princip and his associates in the weeks leading up to Princip's murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914.
Princip was able to get close to the Archduke when his motorcade became trapped in a dead-end after taking a wrong turn. He shot the Austrian noble in the neck and Sophie in the abdomen as she tried to shield her husband. Princip was immediately arrested, and both the Archduke and his wife were taken back to the town hall for medical treatment.