Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- oppressive
- tense
- serious
- historical film night
- political drama viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly found the well-acted, handsome-looking historical thriller worthwhile despite its oppressive subject and familiar outcome.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie is presented as the event triggering the First World War.
The film dramatizes the Sarajevo attack despite the audience already knowing its sequence and consequences.
Sarajevo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Austria-Hungary frame the political tensions surrounding the 1914 assassination.
The production is described as handsome-looking while focusing on the assassination and its immediate political context.
Films like Sarajevo, and why
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
historical assassination thriller centered on the political pressures surrounding the outbreak of world war i
The Death of Stalin
European historical drama depicting a pivotal political crisis through tense institutional and personal conflict
JFK
fact-based period thriller about a consequential political murder and its wider historical implications
Movie Details
- Director
- Andreas Prochaska
- Release Date
- 2014-04-23
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 (71)
Cast
- Heino Ferch
- Melika Foroutan
- Friedrich von Thun
- Edin Hasanović
- Juraj Kukura
- Erwin Steinhauer
- Martin Leutgeb
- Florian Teichtmeister
Common questions
- What is Sarajevo about?
- A tense historical drama reconstructing the Sarajevo assassination as the fatal spark beneath Europe’s gathering political pressure.
- What is Sarajevo like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Sarajevo as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Sarajevo violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Sarajevo as mild.
- What did critics think of Sarajevo?
- Critics broadly found the well-acted, handsome-looking historical thriller worthwhile despite its oppressive subject and familiar outcome.
- Which films are like Sarajevo?
- Films with a similar feel include The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683, The Death of Stalin, and JFK.
- How long is Sarajevo?
- Sarajevo runs 98 minutes.
