A reportage about the First World War and the run-up to that war.
The film mainly shows monarchs, including the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I at a military parade in Vienna in 1910, the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand walking in the park at Reichenau, the German...
First, the arrival by car and carriage of the various mourners at the west door of Sankt Stefan's Cathedral. Recognisable among the dignitaries arriving are Archduke Joseph, Archduke Friedrich, Archdu...
The film freely interprets events occurring predominantly in Sarajevo between the 15th June 1910 to the 15th June 1914 that had preceded and caused breaking out of the Great War, i.e. World War I, whi...
Emperor Karl and Empress Sofia arrive by train at the station in Sofia. The royal couple is welcomed by Ferdinand I. of Bulgaria, Crown Prince Boris and Duke Cyrill. Karl reviews the guard of honour. ...
Newsreel fragments showing a few moments of the wedding between Karl Franz Joseph of Habsburg and Zita of Bourbon-Parma (1911).
Anthology on the Kings of Europe at the beginning of the WW1
1. Stuttgart: The first monument to Hindenburg in Germany…
2. … is made of snow.
3. Cairo: The crowning of the new Sultan of Egypt.
4. Batumi: The radio station that was destroyed by t...