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In Sarajevo, in the year 1914, a recently expelled seventeen-year-old Serbian schoolboy named Gavre Princip (Rueben Pillsbury) threw the bomb that killed the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. For reasons that are sometimes confusing even to scholars, the whole of Europe was soon embroiled in the conflict we now call World War I. This drama explores the life of the blond, blue-eyed "anarchist" and Serbian nationalist just before the fatal bombing, and it underscores not only the boy's motives for his deed, but the conditions endured by subjects of the empire.