"Produced by:" "Zoran Jankoviæ" "THE MAN WHO DEFENDED GAVRILO PRINCIP" "Starring:" "Also Starring:" "Featuring:" "The last invader Adolf Hitler entered Sarajevo in April, 1941." "He promptly ordered the removal of the memorial plaque from the spot of the assassination of the Austrian heir presumptive Franz Ferdinand." "These shots were filmed by a German war cameraman." "Triumphant faces and a proper music background." "The new invader pays tribute to the previous one, and warns the defiant city of Sarajevo." "Hitler considers this historic conflict a closed matter." "THE MOST PRECIOUS PRESENT FOR OUR FUHRER" "ZAGREB, 21 April, 1941" "Written and Directed by SRÐAN KOLJEVIÆ" "Good evening." "Dr. Rudolf Zistler, lawyer?" "Yes, that is me." "You have to come with us." "Why?" "I have an order for your arrest." "May I see it?" "This must be a mistake." "What is all this about?" "Who are you?" "Who issued this order?" "Julijana, bring me the winter coat." "Why?" "It is April." "Because." "Julijana, please." "Just a moment, please." "Everything will be fine." "I will go to the High Command first thing in the morning." "Where are you taking him?" "That is classified." "Probably to Kerestinec." "Who issued such an order?" "This must be a mistake." "My husband is an Austrian, and I'm a German." "This must be a mistake." "That's what they all say." "I know who gave this order." "Oh my God..." "Vanda." "The man in the coat." "So, mister, you're a... merchant?" "A lawyer." "Law can't help you anymore." "I'm Veljko." "Rudy." "I had a friend once, his name was Veljko." "One of the finest men I knew." "What did you say your name was?" "Rudy." "Rudolf Zistler." "What are you doing here?" "This jail is for Serbs, only." "The Jews are overthere." "My name, yes." "It always leads to wrong conclusion." "I'm not a Jew." "A Communist, then?" "No." "I was a socialist, though." "But I don't believe that this is the reason." "What, then?" "Maybe they think that I'm a Jew, maybe that I am an undesirable person." "Maybe it's revenge." "Revenge, for what?" "For defending Young Bosnia in 1914." "Princip?" "Yes." "There were 25 accused." "You knew him?" "I'd rather not talk about it now." "Why not?" "It is hard for people today to understand that." "Mister..." "Tomorrow, they will take us away, God knows where." "To some camp or... something worse." "Who will understand, if not us?" "I was an attorney trainee in Sarajevo at the time." "I got my doctor degree in Vienna, I passed my state license exam." "I applied for my own law firm." "It was on St. Vitus Day, 1914." "It was a clear day." "I met with a fellow lawyer Leo Pfeffer, who was investigator judge at the time." "Thanks." "Thank you." "It will be a hellish day." "It's already too hot." "I don't know if it's the heat, but there are no people by the river." "On the Archduke's route." "It's Sunday." "The promenade is full of people, but there is no one by the river." "What was that?" "I don't know." "It came from there." "Probably the salvo, to salute Ferdinand." "I doubt it." "It came from over there, by the river." "Anyway, have you found the place for your office yet?" "This is why I called you." "Maybe you know something about my application?" "It's been three weeks now." "Bureaucracy, that's all." "But, I will ask around." "What happened?" "They threw a bomb at Ferdinand." "This was Èabrinoviæ." "Is he able to answer questions?" "I don't know if he has internal injuries." "His mouth and pharynx are burnt." "What did you say?" "Cyanide..." "Cyanide?" "Who are you?" "What is your name?" "Anarchist." "Did he say anything to you?" "He wanted know in which car is the Archduke." "And?" "I told him." "Then what?" "He thanked me." "He didn't tell me why!" "Stop it, you fool!" "Anybody else been there?" "Yes." "That tiny Moritz, the mute Jew, the laughing stock." "You'd let him assassinate someone, too!" "I said, do not disturb!" "Chief, I have orders to inform you that Archduke Franz Ferdinand is a victim of assassination." "We know that, we are questioning the assassin." "No sir, another." "This time, the Archduke was shot." "And the Duchess, too." "Who is he?" "Gavrilo Princip, a gymnasium student, age 19." "Son of a peasant, from the village of Obljaj, near Grahovo." "No previous convictions." "A Serb?" "He says "Serb-Croat"." "Yes, yes..." "And the other one?" "He's 19, too?" "Yes, Nedeljko Èabrinoviæ, a graphic worker." "Expelled from Sarajevo for being a socialist." "Now he says that he's an anarchist, I don't know, really." "What do you think about this?" "I think that this is a political assassination, like the ones in Zagreb." "Planinšæak, Jukiæ, Šefer..." "The youth protests against" ""the Austrian oppression of the Slav nations."" "Yes." "Instead of going to church, these young men join such... organizations." "Progressive, Serb-Croat, revolutionary, Yugoslav, and what not." "It spreads like a disease." "What a God-awful company." "Antichrists." "Anyway, you will keep me posted about your investigation." "What is it?" "Prosecutor, sir," "I will have to question your son, too." "They've seen him minutes before the assassination, walking by the river, with Princip." "They heard them singing..." "La Marseillaise." "In the lynching atmosphere, the crowd burnt and looted Serbian property." "Zistler!" "Pfeffer... what's going on?" "Don't ask." "I got the assassination investigation." "I'm moving the office to the Military prison." "Outside the crowd is out of control." "I know." "My wife had a nervous breakdown." "She saw the crowd raiding the Jovièiæ store, they pulled out their guns." "The doctor told me to send her back to Croatia." "Mr. Ivasiuk!" "Why doesn't the police do something about this?" "Or the Army?" "What can we do?" "These are loyal citizens." "And you will make photographs?" "Yes." "Commissioner Gerde will be pleased, as well as the Vienna and Sarajevo press." "You take photographs for the press?" "!" "Don't underestimate the press, they are extremely important to us." "Extremely important in this matter." "This is an European scandal and you don't even try to stop this barbarism!" "This is a disgrace for this country!" "Easy now, Zistler." "Take it easy." "He's just a little upset." "I will do you a favour and forget what I just heard." "You cannot do this." "Understand the moment." "Don't get involved." "If you need me..." "here is the pass." "God helps, teacher!" "What trouble brings you here?" "My God help you." "Great trouble, Mitar." "Call your sons." "Blagoje!" "Neðo!" "You have to flee to Serbia." "Both you, and your sons." "Remember those schoolboys we led to Tuzla?" "A month ago." "The two tiny ones?" "With their guns?" "Yes." "They killed Franz Ferdinand." "The Archduke." "Those two little boys?" "It cannot be." "The smaller one, Gavrilo, he did it." "The tiny one?" "God help me." "Big letters." "Big picture." "That means, big trouble." "Now what?" "We have to flee to Serbia." "I will get you across Drina." "We are not going anywhere." "The Germans will come to arrest." "Soon." "I can't let the harvest go to waste." "Never mind the harvest." "Let me move your sons." "We're not going anywhere without our father." "Either the whole family, or no one." "Why didn't they kill him during the winter?" "Why now?" "And he tells me he is a son of a peasant." "Think about it." "Until tomorrow." "You should." "You take care of your family." "We'll stay here, see what God has in mind for us." "Mighty Austria, not God, has something in mind for you, and might ignores God." "Something puzzles me, still." "Austria is so mighty, and yet it couldn't keep the Archduke alive." "They let some children execute him." "Think about it!" "Those schoolboys are really brave." "Did you tell the Keroviæ family to run?" "Yes." "I did, but they won't run." "Veljko, please go." "You can cross the border in an hour." "I can..." "But I cannot." "I cannot run, understand me." "I dragged into all this our godfathers, the Keroviæ and the Stepanoviæ family." "If I run now, the peasants will say," ""The teacher can always just pack his things and go to Serbia."" ""But we cannot run, we are attached to the soil."" "How could any scholar come here and work with the people if I would run now and leave them to suffer?" "I would lose face." "How about us?" "I'm sorry." "Get inside the house." "Do you hate me now?" "I love you now, and I will always love you." "Sometimes I'm angry with myself for falling so much in love with you, the way you are." "But I fell in love with you just because of the way you are." "And so on, in circles." "You're trembling." "Let's go inside." "It's cold." "Yes?" "What is this?" "Police Chief Ivasiuk sends this." "These are lists." "Of all the Serbs detained down here." "If you need to question any of them, you can order." "Like on the menu, the Chief says." "Alright." "Bring Princip." "Get him!" "Gavrilo Princip?" "When did you decide to assassin the Archduke?" "Two years ago." "After Žerajiè attempted his assassination." "Where did you get the weapons?" "From a Belgrade Komita." "What did you do in Belgrade?" "Finishing the gymnasium." "Did you volunteer for the Balkan Wars?" "I tried." "They turned me down." "A reject, then?" "Not a single army in the world would take you." "And now you... you!" "You kill the greatest military commander of today." "Plus, his wife." "I didn't mean to kill her." "When I saw her in the car, I hesitated for a moment." "I'm sorry I killed her, I didn't mean to." "In the police you said, that you've never seen a pistol in your life until a month ago." "That you couldn't hit a tree, three steps away from you." "And now, you fire two shots." "Both of them killing them almost instantly." "How?" "A strange feeling came over me." "And I fired." "Alright... why, then?" "Our goal is unification." "Just like in Germany or Italy." "That is what I think and the youth thinks." "But some scum think otherwise." "Unification under Austria-Hungary?" "God forbid." "Austria-Hungary will fall apart like a plague." "Pfeffer wrote down..." "He was short, scrawny, with a long, pale face." "It was hard to imagine him, so small, shy and quiet, determined to perform such action." "Furthermore... his eyes." "These pale blue eyes were everything but wild, villain eyes." "These eyes were sparkling, piercing, otherwise calm." "Natural intelligence rose from those eyes, as well as calmness and extreme energy." "Have you heard that Ferdinand is coming?" "Hamdija, everybody knows that." "We should give him a proper welcome." "If only we had men to do it." "We do have men." "But we don't have the means." "No?" "All we have is excuses." "First Ibro Fazlinoviæ said he'll kill Franz." "And nothing!" "After that, Ðulaga Bukovac." "Again nothing!" "Hello, my friends." "I hear that you talk about Franz Ferdinand." "He won't live much longer, I guarantee you that." "You think you're a tough Slovenian?" "Easy, Hamdija." "Let me introduce you." "This is Ivan Endliher, from the Slovenian National Revival." "Ivo Andriæ, the first President of our Serbo-Croatian Progressive Youth." "Princip, "Gavroche" named after the boy from Hugo's Les Misérables, he was on the front line and was wounded in the student's protests." "Hamdija Nikšiæ from Travnik." "And Viktor Rupèiæ from Sarajevo." "When did you arrive to Sarajevo?" "I haven't seen you on the promenade." "Two weeks ago." "I don't go out." "I study for my exam." "Are you prepared?" "Not yet, but I try." "I still keep that." "What?" "Don't pretend you don't know." "I like them." "The poems." "And the small bouquet." "It's not dry?" "No, I pressed it and put it in the herbarium." "I read those books you suggested." "I liked most Sherlock Holmes, and the literary magazine, The Bosnian Fairy." "Andriæ wrote for that magazine." "I know." "She has something From my love" "Something distant Warm and beautiful" "She is like the Sarajevo dusk..." "I wrote those verses three years ago while still in gymnasium." "Although, they sounds much better when someone like you tells them." "He is much wiser since he started to study philosophy." "I moved on from Zagreb and Vienna to the Krakow University." "Good for you." "You write poems, too, Gavro." "I know that." "You will go to the University." "I don't think so." "Well, I do." "Our dear colleagues!" "In the name of the Serbo-Croatian Aid Board for Croatian schools in Istra," "I would like to thank all contributors, for the money, as well for the bingo items." "I also thank the delegates of the progressive youth from Tuzla," "Banja Luka, Mostar, Travnik, and Trebinje, as well as the Slovenian National Revival delegate." "We already surpassed the fundraising goal!" "You didn't bring it, again?" "Why?" "You said you'll show me your poems." "I burned them all." "It's stupid to write poems at this moment of time." "Don't speak like that." "It doesn't have to be stupid." "It depends, Andriæ." "It depends." "I believe that it is time for action." "How do you expect me to believe that you and Princip were not collaborating?" "How?" "Coincidence?" "What?" "Maybe Princip planned assassination on his own, and I planned on my own." "Alright." "So, you know Princip?" "Do the two of you share the same opinion?" "Same ideals?" "I don't know about him." "I'm an anarchist." "I don't know about him." "He's more of a Yugoslav nationalist." "Really?" "You think that your hat makes you an anarchist?" "I am a true anarchist." "Like who, for instance?" "Like Sinðeliæ." "I have here your father's statement." "He says you stopped him from flying the Austrian flag, by hiding the flag pole." "You also said that next year, King Peter will be here." "Is that true?" "Yes, it is." "How can you be an anarchist and call for the king?" "Not just any king." "King Peter." "Let's move on." "Tell me the name of the third member of yours and Princip's group." "You told everyone, even your maid that you came from Belgrade with two friends." "So, the first one was you, the second one was Princip." "Who was the third man?" "If they torture me again, I will say random names." "Who tortured you?" "The police." "Trifko Grabež was the third man." "The police was already on his tail." "Èabrinoviæ used Trifko's passport when he entered Bosnia, that was the lead." "One day earlier, along with his friend Leposava, the teacher," "Trifko Grabež tried to reach Višegrad." "Those are hostages." "Follow me." "Who is that?" "A Serbian teacher." "They brought her here this morning." "The teachers..." "every single one of them is a traitor." "Yes?" "You have a visitor." "Zistler!" "Yes, as you can see, they put me in the garrison pharmacy." "I just wanted to thank you for that favour, with Ivasiuk." "He became a powerful man now, and I was careless." "No problem, that was nothing." "He's bothering me, too." "Yes." "That is what I wanted to tell you." "He is torturing a man called Trifko Grabež." "I'm afraid that he conducts his own investigation." "Who told you that?" "Theresa, a secretary in the police." "At nights, he tortures Princip and Èabrinoviæ with lapis." "He interrogates them." "He can ruin everything." "He obstructs my investigation." "He tortures them until they sign whatever he wants them to sign." "A bunch of false confessions!" "He can show results, while I can't." "I thought that..." "You are against his methods." "Of course I am." "But no one asks about the methods." "All they want are results." "Alright." "Thank you for the information." "I'll arrange for new passwords every day, he won't be able to drag them out." "Sergeant!" "Danilo Iliæ." "You are arrested because Princip lodged in your house." "And you're under suspicion for some time now." "Iliæ..." "You are 24, you are not so young and reckless, you can see what's going on." "The police Chief Ivasiuk wants to shoot 200 Serbs from Sarajevo." "Potiorek's Schutzkorps are already on a killing spree." "Iliæ..." "I know that you love your nation." "But look..." "You know that the tension is great between Austria and Serbia." "You also know that the two of them came from Belgrade." "You also know that an assassination at this moment of time was an extremely foolish act." "You're not a child, like them." "You know what is happening." "Persecution of innocent people." "Those are the consequences." "And what about the political consequences?" "Serbia's got nothing to do with this, and you know it." "How should I know?" "It would be too stupid." "This is a Bosnian matter, not a Serbian matter." "Maybe." "If you tell me everything, maybe you will prove it to me." "I don't understand something." "The ones who had the courage to organize and carry out the assassination," "don't have the courage to take responsibility fortheir actions." "Guards!" "Guards!" "I want to go to the investigator judge!" "Take me to the investigator!" "You asked to be confronted with Iliæ." "Tell them everything." "They hurt the righteous." "Innocent people die." "I want to be confronted with Trifko Grabež, too." "He is still with the police." "Only when you confront me with him, I will answer all your questions." "Sit down." "So, Grabež is the third man." "Yes." "Alright." "I was against the assassination, eventually." "I felt that the assassination was a mistake." "Nevertheless, I organized it." "You?" "How?" "I made all the arrangements." "I found the additional three men." "I brought the weapons from Tuzla." "So, there were six of them?" "Six assassins?" "!" "Yes." "Three more." "Vaso Èubriloviæ," "Cvetko Popoviæ, and Muhamed Mehmedbašiæ." "Trifko Grabež, eighteen years old, high school student." "Where did you hide the bomb?" "Why did you turn against your own country?" "Not against the country, against the state." "The state is yours, the county is ours." "Sergeant!" "I asked for the confrontation." "Tell them everything." "Or innocent people will die." "We all acted on our own free will and we knew the risks." "Is that all?" "Yes." "Tell me now where you hid the bomb." "We don't want innocent people to get hurt." "I will tell." "After such a spectacular display of devotion and commitment," "Pfeffer was certain that no one could take the investigation away from him." "I was still going to Pfeffer to ask about my attorney license." "That was the second time I saw Jovanka Èubriloviæ." "I was glad to see that she was not a hostage anymore, but I couldn't imagine what lied ahead of her." "There she is." "Come in." "What do you want?" "My name is Jovanka Èubriloviæ, I am a teacher." "I am the wife of the arrested Veljko Èubriloviæ, the teacher from Priboj." "They say I'm allowed one visit, but you have to sign the permit." "What are you doing in Sarajevo?" "I came to be with my husband." "I was arrested as a hostage and released." "You cannot obtain a permit before the end of all interrogations." "Can I leave this letter and the photo of the baby here for him?" "We cannot show compassion for the assassins!" "Go away." "Wait!" "What is your Sarajevo address?" "Oprkanj Street, 6." "Pfeffer decided to finish the investigation with confrontations." "Did Iliæ try to talk you out of the assassination?" "Yes, he did." "Really?" "And yet, he obtained the bombs." "Murat, take them away." "Veljko Èubriloviæ!" "The three of you are in a much worse position than these kids." "You are not underage." "Never mind." "We are humans." "Don't you worry about us." "Quiet!" "Miško Jovanoviæ, Veljko Èubriloviæ." "Are you Serbian National Defence commissioners?" "Yes, we are." "So what?" "Do you know Ciganoviæ and Tankosiæ?" "Tankosiæ is a famous Komita from the Balkan Wars." "I don't know him personally." "Èubriloviæ... you're a teacher." "Your duty is to teach and educate your nation, not to assassinate people." "You can speak like that because you've got your state." "When we make our state and gain our freedom," "I will demonstrate my patriotism through my profession." "Yes..." "Sign your statements." "Before you go, you should know this..." "we arrested your brother Vaso." "Vaso?" "He's just a child." "What he's got to do with this?" "You don't know?" "He was one of the six other men who planned the assassination." "Murat, take them away!" "Let's go." "Pfeffer had only two names." "Ciganoviæ and Tankosiæ." "Nevertheless, on 23 July, Austria sends an ultimatum to Serbia." "Two days of suspense followed." "The ultimatum was written with the intent to be unacceptable." "Pfeffer paid a visit to me that very day." "The indictment against Serbia was drafted beforehand." "That was all they were interested in." "All my work... for nothing." "Not even a commendation." "I thought that someone would appreciate my work." "Yes, but we could expect this." "Ever since the annexation, Conrad looked for an excuse to declare war on Serbia." "But we are Rechtsstaat, a state of justice." "I don't understand one thing." "How did they manage to stop the car right in front of Princip?" "Two shots... both, deadly." "Like some kind of... witchcraft." "Or maybe the fact that there were only 14 policemen there." "When Franz Joseph came here, the Army was there, plus 200 agents." "As if someone from Vienna deliberately sent Ferdinand on this trip." "Whatever." "I came to tell you that I recommended you to be appointed by the court as a defence lawyer." "This will open the way for you to obtain the license." "Thank you." "The trial will be held within two months from now." "By that time, the war will be over, and Serbia will be crushed." "Thank you, again." "Serbia accepted all of the terms of the ultimatum except a part in point 6 hat Austrian police be allowed to operate in Serbia." "Austria declared war." "The court appointed four defence lawyers, ex officio." "Premužiæ, a radical Croat nationalist, full of himself." "Perišiæ, also a Croat, a young lawyer with political ambitions." "Wenzel Malek." "A Czech, a court clerk, frightened and nervous." "And me." "As you know, gentlemen, we are here to put on trial Gavrilo Princip and his 24 friends." "The prosecution will be represented by" "Mr. Franjo Svara and the investigator judge Pfeffer." "Gentlemen, you are appointed ex officio as defence lawyers as a formality." "I am sure that you are disgusted by the task that lies ahead of you." "Because this is not an ordinary trial." "However, this is a state of justice, and we have to follow the formalities." "Mr. Pfeffer will distribute the indictment." "You will also get the list of defendants appointed to each of you." "There are 25 accused men." "That is all." "Mr. Curinaldi, please release me from this, I'm just a court clerk." "And my doctor said my heart is too weak." "When I look at the papers, the threats, the pressure." "I am just a foreigner here." "You are at least a state clerk." "What about us, lawyers, who waste ourtime for free?" "Malek, that's enough." "This is settled." "Mr. Curinaldi, I request to see the investigation files." "Dr. Zistler..." "I believe that you still do not have a permanent license for work?" "You will see the investigating files in due time." "What do you mean?" "The trial is in two weeks." "I need the files now." "That would be all." "You are obliged by law to give me that, and I am obliged by law to prepare the best defence for my clients." "That would be all." "You will cool down and think about everything." "And I will help you." "My name is Jovanka Èubriloviæ, the wife of the accused Veljko Èubriloviæ." "Please, come in." "Veljko has sent me here." "He said that you are appointed as the defence lawyer." "It is not official yet." "Please, have a seat." "I don't want to get it all wet." "It was you... there, in the barracks." "In the military prison." "Yes." "I was going to a fellow lawyer Pfeffer." "I was there by chance." "It was easier there." "After that I spent five weeks in detention." "Why?" "By the order of the investigator judge..." "Pfeffer." "That's impossible." "I don't believe that." "Please, take that coat off and worm up a little." "Please." "I have to tell you that we don't have money." "You don't need it." "I was appointed by the court." "But why do you accept to defend enemies of Austria?" "What is your intention?" "The court decides about this." "But what do you aim to accomplish?" "To play the role you were given?" "To build a career over our ordeal?" "Or you are driven by professional ambition and arrogance and we are expendable." "Cannon fodder." "Does this low opinion come from you, or from Veljko?" "Veljko says he heard that you are a good and honest man." "But then, Veljko believes that all men are good." "I'm sorry, but..." "After all I've been through, what can I expect from a man called Rudolf Zistler?" "My name, yes..." "It always leads to wrong conclusion." "Please, have a seat." "Never judge a man by his name." "Prejudices are a bad guideline." "Prejudices emerge from bad experience." "Austria and Serbia are at war." "What can I expect?" "I will follow the law." "I will do my best." "By doing this, I will fight for the only thing that is good in this state." "I must tell you something else." "I don't think that Veljko will be willing to show remorse in this court." "Even if he does feel remorse." "This will make the defence much more difficult." "Try to understand him." "To understand us." "Believe me, I try." "I can give you these earrings as a fee." "That's what is left." "Veljko's father brought this from Paris, from the World Fair." "No, I told you." "I cannot accept this." "It is still soaking wet." "My bridesmaid Ljubica would like to hire you to defend Miško Jovanoviæ." "She has money." "But I'm still not a licenesed lawyer, so... but I'll ask." "Do you believe that you can save Veljko from death?" "I do." "I do believe." "I made a beginner's mistake." "I gave her hope." "A made a promise I was not sure I could keep." "No, Veljko, don't!" "Shut up, you nitwit!" "I'll beat you up, once I get my hands on you!" "What have you done?" "What?" "The same as you." "I wanted to kill him." "You?" "How can you kill anyone, you numskull!" "You don't know a thing!" "Don't you say a word about it!" "And I paid for your schooling in Sarajevo..." "What about the failed math exam?" "What about that?" "That's enough!" "Yes?" "He's my brother." "Let us be." "It's too late for smacking now." "I can do it myself." "That was the first time I saw him." "He looked me straight in the eye." "It was a photo of a troubled boy with narrow shoulders." "The coat was too large for him, and his eyes were deep-set." "It was the photo that went around the world." "Oh, Dr. Zistler, you are the first one to visit his defendants." "Devoted to work." "I take photos, again." "This is the specimen." "This is Princip." "I waited for their beards to grow, now they look like werewolves." "It is effective." "They will be werewolves for us, too." "Yes." "I can see that you are a passionate photographer." "You understand me, because you are a man of the new age, just like me." "Photography and press can be much more effective than sheer force." "And cheaper than police, right?" "Yes." "May I speak with my client now, please?" "Of course." "I will soon be over." "Guard..." "show lawyer Zistler the way." "I refused a lawyer." "I am Veljko Èubriloviæ's defending lawyer." "But I wanted to speak with you." "Help Veljko, if you can." "He's got no blood on his hands." "He is just an honourable man." "I've got nothing else to say to you." "I will try to defend all of you." "I don't need defence." "I don't want to defend myself." "I would've never started this if I wasn't prepared to die." "Anyway, I would like to..." "No!" "Take care." "Be careful what you do." "You could lose your life." "Come on!" "I told them all to say everything." "I don't want the righteous to suffer." "You are not righteous?" "I am the avenger." "Hurry up!" "You are the righteous one." "Everything turned into misfortune." "The time was not right." "I wanted first to build a revolutionary organization." "Not like this." "See what is happening?" "Everywhere, we just die." "The war..." "the camps, the hangings." "We didn't want people to die." "I heard about you, from the older socialists in the printing shop." "You delivered a speech on a worker's convention, back in 1908." "You understand!" "I am a Sarajevo native." "A foreigner, a German expelled me from Sarajevo fortaking part in a strike." "If I only had a revolver," "I'd fire all six shots at him!" "Princip and the others thought that I was not serious." "But I was the first to throw the bomb!" "The judge said you could see only your clients, not all the accused." "Good luck." "That teacher of yours..." "He's the worst of them all." "Murat the Sultan, is it you?" "If I don't see you, I don't feel well." "Every day, he just babbles like this." "It's been a while since I shook hands with someone." "You've got a strong grip." "You're not a weakling." "Neither are you." "I heard all the best about you." "How come?" "We've got the shackles alphabet." "We tap on the wall." "The schoolboys learnt it from the Russian books." "From the anarchists." "It is convenient, but pray that you'll never need it." "Have a seat." "It's a pity I cannot offer you a drink, to celebrate." "What would you celebrate?" "My daughter's first birthday." "Well... at least I got to be with her for a couple of months." "But my best man Miško just had a daughter." "Will he ever see her?" "Who will be her godfather when they hang me?" "Maybe you, as my lawyer?" "I don't understand your humour at all." "I came to defend you." "Hope is the mother of fools." "There is not much time, we have to go through the indictment." "Pack this up." "No use." "You've got a wife and a child." "Did you come here just to rub in my trouble?" "No, I came here to help." "And I think I can do that." "Don't give me false hope." "Not to me, not to Jovanka." "Unless you really mean what you say." "I say what I mean." "And this is not false hope." "Is that so?" "Yes, it is." "Alright." "Alright." "I'm sorry, I arrange things in my head, to make it easier for me, and so..." "Leave the papers." "I will study them later." "But..." "What about the war?" "How is Serbia doing?" "And the Allies?" "You're doing well." "Serbia is putting up a good fight." "After Cer, Potiorek's army was thrown away, back here." "On this side of the Drina river." "I'm sorry, I forgot you were..." "I'm a lawyer." "My patriotism is social." "All the states are same to me, as long as they follow justice." "Without justice what else is the state but a great band of robbers?" "Not my words." "That was St. Augustine." "For my wife." "Please." "I know it's odd." "Secret letters between husband and wife." "Doctor..." "The time is up." "This is the only thing I entirely understand." "I am glad you defend us." "Because of my kid brother, Vaso." "Shut up." "Although we were completely different," "I felt strangely close to Veljko." "The circumstances gave us somewhat similar roles to play." "But at the moment, I was not yet aware of that." "Hello." "Dr. Zistler!" "From Veljko." "Come in, please!" "I'd rather not..." "Please!" "Please, come in." "I'm sorry." "Have a seat." "Thank you." "Please, take some." "No, thanks." "Please." "It's her birthday, and I didn't bring her anything." "You brought a letter from Veljko." "That is the greatest present of all." "Thank you." "I'm sorry for being so rude the last time we met." "Can I tell Ljubica that you will defend Miško?" "No, unfortunately." "He is assigned to Premožiæ." "He is a lawyer, while I'm still a candidate of law." "He is a Croat nationalist." "Yes, but..." "Tell her that I will try to defend all the accused." "I still don't know how, but believe me." "They say that the verdicts are already written down." "That the trial will be just a show." "Let me tell you something." "Austria is a state of justice." "The inscription on the Vienna palace says" ""Justice is the foundation of kingdoms."" "I remember." ""Justitia Fundamentum Regnorum."" "I lived in St. Pölten, near Vienna." "My aunt is married to a retired Austrian officer." "But, you know..." "being a Serbian teacher from Bosnia..." "It is not easy for me to believe in an inscription on a Vienna palace." "Yes, but this is the 20th century." "Europe." "I understand you." "You are an attorney of law." "I spent five weeks in detention, separated from my child." "This offends you, since you believe in law, but I'm just tormented by..." "Love." "Good bye." "Good bye." "I was desperate." "I had to think of a defence." "I didn't know where to start." "I couldn't count on any help from my rebellious defenders." "They didn't even think of mitigate their deed or their role in it." "Never again was I in a situation like that." "Austria's justice system has already been shaken." "The power that held it together has been worn out." "I knew that." "But I didn't know how to use it in my case." "And then, it dawned upon me." "Bosnia!" "Bosnia was everybody's and nobody's." "It is a cursed country." "Everyone claimed it, but all they got from it was death, war and calamity." "In the Monarchy, Bosnia was the apple of discord between Austria and Hungary." "This led to a crack in the Austrian law." "Just like the beech peg my father used for breaking massive stones." "Once soaked in water, that small peace of wood cracks even the largest stone." "My defence will be based on that." "I see him!" "There he is!" "I'm here!" "Goddamn Komitas!" "They ruined my photo of the century!" "Take your clothes off." "Don't just stand there!" "Take it off!" "From the very first day, they made the accused take all their clothes off." "They kept them standing in a cold room, allegedly to inspect their clothes, although they brought them from a nearby military prison." "Are you alright?" "I've seen better days." "Have they let anyone of the family in?" "Only the once with the pass." "Gentlemen of the press, you may take notes, but at the end of each day you will get an official statement." "That is all you are allowed to print." "That is the decision of this court." "Do you understand?" "Don't treat them like that." "They are my clients." "This is not an ordinary trial." "I see that." "With bayonettes." "Get up on your feet!" "Come on!" "I announce the start of the hearing against Gavrilo Princip and others, for the crime of high treason!" "The President of the Court is Alois von Curinaldi." "Gavrilo Princip." "Present." "Approach the bench." "Age?" "Nineteen." "Born?" "Grahovo, the village of Obljaj." "Faith?" "Serbian Orthodox." "Any previous convictions?" "No." "Do you consider yourself guilty?" "I am not a criminal, because I eliminated the one who did evil." "My intentions were good." "Order." "Order!" "What about Duchess Sophie?" "I didn't mean to kill her." "I wanted to kill Potiorek." "Order in the courtroom!" "He gives the cue to everyone." "The rest of them follow." "Order!" "Order." "What is your political ideology?" "I am a Yugoslav nationalist." "I strive for the unification of all South Slavs in whatever form of state." "And to be free from Austria." "Hear, hear!" "How did you think to realize it?" "To kill from above." "To eliminate those who do evil, who stand in the way of unification." "And this is how you wanted to realize all your objectives?" "Another motive was revenge for all torments Austria imposed upon us." "So..." "You shot with the intent to kill the Archduke?" "Yes." "In general he did evil to all things." "He started "special measures" against the Serbs here, and the high treason trial against the 53 Serbs in Zagreb." "Hear, hear!" "The high treason trial cannot be evil." "It's nothing but evil!" "It results in the suffering of the people." "Order." "Order in the courtroom!" "Lead all the accused out except Princip." "Get out!" "They could might as well put us on trial while we are away." "They can just inform us about the result." "You are right about that." "Of what do the sufferings of the people consist?" "They are completely impoverished." "They are treated like cattle." "The peasant is impoverished." "They destroy him completely." "I am a peasant's son." "I know that." "That is why I wanted to take revenge." "And I don't feel sorry for that." "During the investigation, you said, that the schoolboys are enthusiastic about the idea of unification?" "But we differ in the ways of realizing those ideas." "I demonstrated my way." "Also, you said," ""that the mission of Serbia is to help the unification."" "Serbia as the free part of the South Slavs." "As the Piedmont was to Italy." "Do you know that in 1908, after the annexation of Bosnia," "Austria almost went into war against Serbia?" "I know." "You thought that bringing weapons from Serbia will not bring consequences?" "Serbia cannot be responsible if private individuals have weapons." "I conclude the hearing of Princip." "I rode from Tobut." "A peasant jumps in front of me." "He says that some schoolboys are looking for me." "And...?" "They want me to take them to Miško in Tuzla." "They carry cyanide, to poison themselves after the assassination." "I took them to Keroviæ house to spend the night there." "Tomorrow, they will take them to Tuzla." "They are sleeping now." "I look at their young heads." "One of them..." "Trifko is his name, black curly hair, a handsome lad." "They are going to sacrifice their lives." "I was disgusted with our safe, calculated life." "Shame on you!" "We live a modest, hard working and dedicated life." "You are wanted by the police." "How can you speak like that?" "Èabrinoviæ, did you share the same ideas as Princip?" "Not on all counts." "I am an anarchist socialist." "My ideal was a South Slav republic." "All I wanted was for King Peter to remain a king while he lives." "After that, to create a Yugoslav republic." "What was the cause of quarrel between you, Princip and Grabež in Koviljaèa?" "I drew the maps and on one, I wrote down these verses," ""River Drina, the border between Bosnia and Serbia," "Soon, the time will come When I will cross this river," "And I will reach Bosnia."" "Karaðorðe wrote that." "Princip was annoyed by my casual behaviour and we didn't speak." "They took the weapons from me sent me away with Trifko's passport." "Who initiated the assassination?" "I am." "I was first." "I got the news that Ferdinand is coming!" "Order!" "Both of you initiated." "Please!" "Is Tankosiæ, who gave you the weapons, maybe a freemason?" "Yes, he is." "Both him and Ciganoviæ." "Are you a member of a freemason lodge?" "I cannot answer that." "Do freemasons recommend assassinations of rulers?" "Yes!" "Ciganoviæ said that the freemasons sentenced Ferdinand to death two years ago." "And..." "The court is adjourned for a 10 minute recess." "The investigation doesn't mention this at all." "Don't you see that Èabrinoviæ made this up?" "He saw that we want to involve Serbia, he picked it up and went on." "He is mocking us?" "They asked for it." "When I saw the effect..." "like a bomb." "The Komitas are our only hope." "They will take on us the defeat at Cer." "This war won't last for long." "Both of us got daughters." "They say, when girls are being born, the war stops." "Veljko..." "Come here." "For a moment." "From now on, your life is at stake, and the life of your wife and child." "You will say that you acted under threat." "Please." "Princip said so, anyway." "I acted under threat?" "From that skinny Princip?" "Alright." "Trifko Grabež." "Age?" "Eighteen." "What did you have against the heir presumptive?" "He brought all evils on Bosnia." "He was the demon for the Slavs." "As a German, he was against the grand idea of Yugoslavia." "Many Slavs fight for Austria." "When Slavs fight for Austria, they are ignorant crowd." "Let this be noted please, I will raise charges for this." "You considered him a great military leader, and you feared him in case of war against Serbia?" "I wasn't afraid of him." "I didn't have Serbia in mind, only Bosnia." "If I knew that this will lead to a European war," "I would've never taken part in the assassination." "Is your ideal too, the unification of South Slavs?" "Yes, it is." "And solely in the Karaðorðeviæ manner." "Under the name of one Yugoslavia, a republic, or a federative republic." "Among the three of you why did you go to Tankosiæ to pick up the weapons?" "Princip is too small." "Èabrinoviæ laughs even in the most serious situations." "His face features are not strong." "That is why I went there." "When I arrived, he asked," ""Are you one of them?"" ""Are you determined?" I am." ""Do you know how to shoot?" I don't." ""How do you plan to do it?" To use a revolver." "Yes." "Alright." "Sit down." "Please." "I have a question." "Proceed." "Did you know that among you will be Muhamed Mehmedbašiæ, a Muslim?" "I didn't know." "Were you surprised?" "No, I wasn't." "Were you glad?" "Yes, I was." "Why?" "Because this is matter of whole Bosnia, not just Serbs." "Zistler, questioning in this direction is not in concord with the charges." "But the indictment insists on ties with Serbia..." "The court finds irrelevant further questioning in this direction." "Sit down." "If I remember well, he is your protégé." "He was." "Sit down." "I conclude the hearing of Grabež." "Next..." "Danilo Iliæ." "You were in Serbia during the Balkan War?" "You were a volunteer?" "Yes, a medic." "Education Minister Jovanoviæ, said that the schoolboys were more valuable alive." "You gave the revolvers to Vaso Èubriloviæ and Cvetko Popoviæ?" "You fired at a wall and said," ""Where this bullet hits, no one will be alive."" ""Where this hits, no remedy will be needed."" "Njegoš." "And so it was." "Yes?" "Princip and Grabež..." "Is it true that Iliæ tried to talk you out of the assassination?" "Yes." "He said that the consequences will be bad." "That it is not the time yet." "He thought that he managed to persuade me not to take part in it." "I figured that the others were not ready, so I tried to talk them out." "You may sit down." "Miško Jovanoviæ." "You own a cinema theatre." "You are the president of "Soko" in Tuzla." "Member of the Serbian Bank board, and yet you keep bombs in the attic." "Then Iliæ came for the bombs." "You are a wealthy man." "You earned your wealth under Austria, and had a good life?" "Yes." "You are a German student, you speak German." "Why did you do all this?" "Why did you become a commissioner of National Defence, a Serbian association?" "In Germany, I saw that associations helping their respective nations." "That is especially the duty of educated and wealthy citizens." "Some wealthy Serbian merchants swore their allegiance to Austria-Hungary." "Ask them about that." "I was educated in Germany and this is what I know." "Sit down." "Veljko Èubriloviè." "You are a teacher in Priboj, on the Majevica river." "Did you write for the Serbian Academy about the geography of your area and about the Serbian population?" "Yes." "That way, whole Serbia is covered." "Is Serbia..." "every place where Serbs live?" "It is not the Serbian state." "Did you say to the peasants that the schoolboys risk their lives for you, Serbs?" "Yes, I did." "You said that the Bosnian Serbs are one nation with the Serbs across the border?" "We are one nation." "We speak the same language." "Yes, Zistler?" "You are married." "Was this a marriage out of love?" "Yes." "Did you take any dowry?" "No." "After four years of marriage, last year you finally had a daughter." "Were you happy?" "Yes." "Princip says he threatened you." "That you took him under threat." "You knew that you and your family will die if you don't obey him." "Please Zistler, only questions." "Why did you sacrifice your personal and marital happiness?" "Were you afraid of something?" "I was afraid of the threats." "I didn't want my family destroyed." "But now you are not afraid?" "I risk only my own life now, and not my family." "Why didn't you defend yourself in this manner earlier?" "I couldn't." "I was afraid." "How could you be afraid of this Princip?" "And Grabež?" "They are just schoolboys." "I wasn't afraid of Princip and Grabež." "I was afraid of schoolboys who carried weapons and bombs." "Did you say to them that you were against violence?" "Yes..." "I did say that." "I said that I don't believe in assassinations and revolutions." "That all they do is leave blood traces behind." "I said that I believe in the evolution of souls and thought." "Court is adjourned." "We will hear the rest of them tomorrow." "Sit down." "How was I?" "I saw how much you hope to save me, so I started to hope myself." "Good, very good." "Hope is the best ally." "The only one." "Not the only one." "You've got law and me on your side, too." "Look... tomorrow, I've got Vaso." "Please, try to reason with him." "My Vaso..." "He is the youngest schoolboy and the greatest fool of them all!" "Look at this..." "Some intestines... not boiled." "Faeces all over.." "look." "Come on, now..." "Under every government, we get quickly used to eat shit." "Let me tell you this." "Whoever laid his ass on Bosnia, went bust." "So will the Germans." "I'm sorry, nothing personal." "It's alright." "Why do they insist on high treason through Great Serbia propaganda, and the Yugoslav idea?" "What about the assassination, the murder?" "Because of politics." "They want to justify the war." "And because of you." "Why me?" "They altered the charges so they could convict more people and more severely." "They cannot deliver a death sentence for assassination." "All three of them are under age." "You and the others are just accomplices." "This is why they manufacture high treason." "As if we are accused for our ideas, not for the assassination." "This is why the charges are unsupported." "I will overturn high treason." "My defence will be based on that." "Take care." "That's my job." "I've got my principles." "You're a strange man, my doctor." "If you can..." "Bring some tobacco from Jovanka." "And a photo of the child." "If you can." "Talk to her." "The way only you can talk." "Let her believe... give her hope." "Don't worry." "She is a brave woman." "Much more than you think." "But the next day, on the second day of the trial," "I saw the true passion of the younger assassins." "I saw Vaso Èubriloviæ." "A peasant from Kreševo he was going back home, it was about nine in the evening." "Suddenly the road was so brightly lit that you could thread a needle." "He looked at the skies, and he saw a flying ball." "Suddenly, a branch stretched out of the ball, and a Serbian flag waved on the branch." "At that moment, he saw another ball flying from the other side." "A branch stretched out of the ball, and a Croatian flag waved on the branch." "This is where the miracle starts." "The flags came closer and four times entangled with each other." "They were intertwined." "Then they split and went to the Moon." "First the Serbian, then the Croatian flag enveloped the Moon." "The peasant testified under oath." "Many other men from the same county confirmed this." "And even a guard from the Zavidoviæ valley, at exactly the same moment" "he saw both flags enveloping the Moon." "He saw the end of the occurrence." "That was in March." "It was in all the papers." "And you, Germans were frightened, because it was officially confirmed." "Sit down." "Ivo Kranjèeviæ." "This Vaso Èubriloviæ gave you weapons to hide?" "Yes." "You are a Croat?" "What is your political ideology?" "I am a nationalist." "Meaning what?" "Harmony between Serbs and Croats." "You knew about the assassination." "Why didn't you report it?" "I didn't report..." "Because we have to protest against German influence that is killing us." "All the persecutions against the Slavs come from Germany." "Where are the persecutions?" "High treason trials in Sarajevo, in Zagreb, in Ukraine." "During the investigation, you said, you didn't report because nobody will ever speak with you again." "What did Vaso Èubriloviæ say?" "He said that Serbia is a free country." "That King Peter associates with the people, he speaks informally, and that everything is much more nicer than here, where everything is... stiff." "Sit down." "Cvetko Popoviæ." "You were a good student?" "One of the best?" "Yes." "Always." "And?" "Were you misled?" "Do you feel sorry?" "I feel sorry for her." "I don't feel sorry for him." "I was determined to assassin him, too." "Sit down." "Yes?" "Vaso Èubriloviæ." "You didn't fire a shot." "And yet, you told everyone that you did." "Why?" "I was joking." "Just bragging around." "But you quit earlier because you felt sorry for the Archduke." "I didn't feel sorry for him, and I didn't quit." "I felt sorry for her." "This is why I didn't pull out the gun." "Have you ever fired a shot from a gun?" "I haven't." "But that's not so hard." "You said you failed your math exam." "That you wanted to end your life, and that is when you decided to assassin the Archduke?" "Yes." "But another motive was the pulling down of Serb and Croat flags at Ilidža." "Did Perin mock with you saying, "This is the man who will kill Ferdinand"?" "Yes, but what does he know?" "Do you feel sorry for the Archduke as a human being?" "I can feel sorry for him as a man, but not as the heir of the Austria-Hungarian throne." "I can feel sorry for millions of our peasants, and millions of others who die all over Europe." "Court is adjourned." "We will continue tomorrow at nine o'clock." "You don't need to be so keen." "There are already too many comments." "I told you this is not an ordinary trial." "I can see that." "Is this an official report from the trial?" "SERBlA GULTY - assassins linked to the Serbian government" "This is not the report I sent, and it has nothing to do with me." "This is bigger than you and me both." "Do you understand?" "I understand." "The photo wouldn't be ready before tomorrow." "I know that Veljko asked for the package because of the photo." "I don't think this is good enough." "Don't worry, I've got the old photo, the only one with all of us together." "You are doing a strange thing." "I'm sorry, but..." "When I look at you, I feel as if you are my friend." "I have to remind myself about the wall that stands between us." "If it wasn't like this, we could be friends, that's for sure." "No use, I need more time." "I know that you're taking a great risk with the package and I appreciate it very much." "I would like for you to know that." "I know that this is against the rules you like to follow." "It's not like that." "I don't see it that way." "They never taught you this in German school." "Prejudices again." "I'm sorry." "Again." "What an incredible set of coincidences." "The assassination didn't fail, Princip's shot..." "Many hands held Princip's hand." "Millions of them, impoverished, humiliated, downgraded." "Poor peasants, enslaved Slavs." "Millions." "There was no way he could fail." "You really believe that?" "And you?" "What do you believe in?" "I don't know anymore." "Not good?" "On the contrary, it's beautiful." "I feel ashamed for my prejudice against you." "I should go now." "Tell me openly, what are Veljko's chances?" "Good." "From the legal point of view, good." "I think that the law and the court can't go along with the press and the war." "Thank you." "You are a good man, but..." "I don't know." "That is St. George." "The victor, our patron saint, the warrior." "He slays the dragon." "Straight through the jaws." "Good bye." "Good bye." "I almost lost hope that you'd come." "Did you bring it?" "The photo is not ready yet." "But I have the old one." "I'm sorry about Vaso." "He didn't listen to you." "Schoolboys..." "They want to be like grown-ups." "I'm sorry I got involved." "Only the schoolboys should've done this." "So you are sorry, after all." "Of course." "I'd be more useful with a rifle." "I know Majevica like the back of my hand." "I thought you dream about freedom, but you..." "You'd rather kill the Germans on Majevica." "Don't you think that's freedom?" "Who gave you this?" "Murat." "No, the lawyer smuggled it in!" "No, Murat, it was you." "Confess Murat, you'll feel better." "Shut up." "Murat, confess." "Did you smuggle a package for the accused Veljko Èubriloviæ?" "Yes." "Nice!" "Nice of you to confess." "You know that I will have to take disciplinary action against you?" "Zistler, how can you be so close with a traitor who will be hanged soon?" "You're a judge, how can you say that to a defence lawyer, before the trial ends?" "Maybe you will have to set him free in the end." "Alright." "You are dismissed." "Go, we have to start." "Mitar Keroviæ." "Are you guilty?" "God willing, I'm not." "Do you think that you are guilty?" "Sir, I don't know." "How should I know that?" "The law and you know that." "Alright." "The schoolboys arrive at your home, with bombs." "You must have thought that this was something bad." "How can I think at all when smart men work?" "Smart men, with bombs?" "Anyone who wears a city suit, just like the one you wear, must be some kind of an official." "Alright." "What did they say?" "They said..." "They risk their lives for us, Serbs, and..." "And?" "That's about all." "What else?" "I don't know." "I was drunk." "How much did you drink?" "How much?" "My good sir, I drink way too much." "I started at noon, with the men working on my barn." "Then I drank from the flask, as much as I could." "Sit down." "Thank you." "This concludes the hearings." "We commence with the evidentiary proceeding." "We start with the witnesses accounts." "Witness number 16." "Count Harrach's statement." ""On the curve to Franz Joseph Street, I saw the first car going there." "I warned the driver not to follow him, because the route was changed." "I stood on the running board to protect the high couple from shots." "But when the car stopped, the shots were fired from the other side." "Immediately after that, the Duchess fell into the lap of the Archduke." "He said to her, "Sophie, don't die." "Stay alive for the children."" "I asked the Archduke if he was in pain." "He answered me, "It is nothing!"" "He went on repeating, six or seven times, ever more faintly," ""It's nothing."" "When we reached the residence, he died." "Afew minutes later, she died, too."" "Princip." "Did this statement make any impression on you?" "I'm not a beast." "But you don't feel guilty." "No." "Doctor..." "I'm sorry about the troubles with the package." "Is this your last visit?" "Yes." "I am not allowed to visit you after the statement of defence." "I wanted to ask for one more favour." "This time it is not dangerous." "What is it?" "Don't get angry, please." "But I believe that they will sentence me to death tomorrow." "No, no." "I saw the way they look at me." "So, I thought..." "If you can arrange that my coat goes to Vaso." "He hasn't got one, and the nights are cold." "How can you speak like that to me?" "Tomorrow I have to defend you." "They want heads to roll, and mine is at hand." "You think that justice can do something about it?" "Veljko, this is not Turkey!" "Don't you see that they made their minds up?" "We have to be ready to die, anyway." "Such are the times..." "we are helpless." "We just have to act our roles." "Veljko." "Please, don't be foolish." "Don't get in deeper trouble because of us... because of me." "Princip was right to refuse a lawyer." "Shame on you!" "How dare you speak to me like that?" "After all I've done, all I get is ingratitude and contempt!" "Doctor..." "Now you act just like one of us." "You're pursuing justice where there is none." "You're flogging a dead horse." "You want to sacrifice yourself for the lost cause." "Let me explain." "If there will be no more people who see the law as I see it, we'll have permanent wars, and people like you will die in those wars!" "Don't be angry with me." "I look at you and I think to myself..." "If only Jovanka could find someone brave and honest." "Someone like you." "Even if..." "Even if he's a German." "There." "Take care." "Murat, where are you?" "The coat..." "don't forget about it." "Let us hear now the argument of the defence, Dr. Zistler." "Gentlemen." "This trial is being held in a historic and a fateful moment." "The entire Europe is dragged into a whirlpool of blood." "We hear the rattling of weapons here, we see the wounded." "Our entire public life, the entire press it boils with hatred towards the assassin and his nation." "They all yell, "Kill them!" "Hang them!"" "At this moment, when the crowds are angry, when throwing stones at them is not a bad thing, but a patriotic act, we, the defence, must strive to a just verdict," "based entirely on law." "A big and a defining task lies before you too, honourable judges." "You have to be deaf to the shouting from the street." "The court must stay isolated from politics and its opportunism, which acts only according to the current political needs." "Because you are the priests of that blind-folded goddess holding a sward in one hand and a set of scales in the other." "She made all people equal before the law." "Let's see what has happened here." "The royal couple falls victim to the assassination, and yet this murder, legally speaking, is just another murder." "According to our law, the heir of the throne is equal to the others." "And yet, the prosecutor's office charged them for high treason by assassination." "Another high treason trial." "It has become a chronic disease here!" "Note this down, please." "It is regrettable, but since 1848, we have to recognize the process of forming national states and..." "Please, do not go in that direction, stick to the main hearing." "The Serb nationalism is related to the national states in Europe." "I warn you again, stick to the subject of the main hearing, or you will sit down, and I will press charges." "Honourable judges," "I will make an assertion that at first glance might seem... bold." "Maybe even absurd." "But it is a firm fact." "I assert that the effort to break away Bosnia  Herzegovina from the Austria-Hungary as the prosecution incriminates, according to our law," "is not an act of high treason, and is not a punishable offence at all." "I will explain!" "According to the Treaty of Berlin, signed in 1878," "Austria-Hungary occupies Bosnia  Herzegovina." "With the proclamation in 1908," "Bosnia was annexed." "Despite that, legally speaking," "Bosnia was not incorporated into Austria-Hungary because there is no legal approval from both parts of the Monarchy." "The motions have been filed in the Vienna and Pest Parliaments but until this day were not adopted." "Therefore, the relations between Bosnia HerzegovinaandAustria-Hungary stand on factual grounds, but not legal grounds!" "They enjoy the protection of power, but not the protection of law." "Annexation is an illegal condition." "I am not alone in this." "The Vienna Professor, Dr. Finger, says the same." "So, you cannot construct the accusation for high treason for plotting against annexation, because it is an illegal condition." "Any verdict that would accept the charge under section 112, would not be based on law, but on force." "This would mark the self-destruction of Austria-Hungary as a state of justice!" "Since the defence lawyer has violated the legislation under section 245, I issue a reprimand." "And under section 245, point two," "I warn him, if he continues to behave like this, I will silence him, and call on clients to find a new defence lawyer." "I just wanted to say that our law has some flaws, but the court is obliged to judge by that very law." "Next, I refuse the mention of various Serb associations, to illustrate some alleged high treason." "This has nothing to do with the incriminating act, the assassination." "In the case of my defendant Veljko Èubriloviæ, this is obvious." "Veljko Èubriloviæ was an excellent high school student." "After the death of his parents, he was the oldest member of the family." "Instead of going to the University, he sacrificed himself for the family and became a teacher to earn his daily bread." "With his poor salary, he supported four children." "Finally, he married out of love, with no dowry at all." "In search for income, he started doing science work." "He explored ancient Serbian elements in Bosnia." "He didn't do that for some dangerous political party in Belgrade." "He did for the Geography Department of the Serbian Academy!" "This has become an act of high treason!" "Regarding your doubt about Veljko taking Princip under threat," "I believe that you too, must be impressed by the stoic calm Princip demonstrated all these days." "Regarding Princip and his age," "I inform you that there is a list of newborns, made by priest Bilbija and according to that, Princip was not yet 20 in time of the assassination." "The Orthodox priest are well-known traitors." "Many of them were shot these days." "Princip is not your client." "That was all, with regard to him." "Next." "My client is Vaso Èubriloviæ." "He is just 17." "His wish to assassin the Archduke was a desperate act." "He failed the math exam." "But he didn't do it." "His "enemy" ideas are real not more than Plato's Republic." "So..." "The Prosecutor calls for death penalty for all adult defendants, including my client, Veljko Èubriloviæ." "I am against the death penalty as a barbarian institution based on revenge and we heard the prosecutor calling for revenge." "But, having in mind that the accusation for high treason is unfounded," "Veljko's offence is just knowledge about a murder." "If we would accept the charges under section 112, that would be legal murder!" "I will finish now." "Gentlemen..." "We must have in mind that this is a historic trial." "The whole world waits for the verdict brought here." "History and future generations will talk about this trial." "Therefore I call not for a brutal verdict, but for a just verdict." "A verdict based on law, to serve as the bright page in the legislative annals because the future will be our judge, as well as the civilization that we, despite all, will reach some day." "Thank you." "The defence lawyer Malek will speak now." "Honourable judges... when we were schoolboys, we studied science, not assassinations." "I remember the Latin proverb that stayed in my mind from that time." "Fiat justitia, "Let justice be done"." "Gentlemen..." "I fully support the words of my predecessor, Dr. Zistler," "that the annexation of Bosnia  Herzegovina is not grounded in law, and that the accusation for high treason is therefore unsustainable." "Malek, I warn you." "Since my words may not carry much weight," "I prepared some authorities in this field proving the claim made by Dr. Zistler." "I will start with Dr. Finger." "The book is Strafrecht, volume 2, page 768." "He writes here..." "I never found out how Malek knew the bases of my defence, and prepared his thorough support." "I conclude the trial." "The verdicts will be delivered tomorrow, on 29 October at 8 o'clock, here." "Officers with their swords out are at the gates." "Waiting for you." "You mustn't go there." "I know a certain corridor..." "I will take you out." "Malek..." "Do you know what are you getting yourself into?" "I know." "They will probably fire me." "I already bought the ticket." "I am going away tomorrow." "I'm going home." "To Bohemia." "I'm sick of Bosnia." "I am a timid man." "Yes." "Žerajiè, the hero, was right." "Who wants to live, has to die." "Who wants to die, has to live." "Murat, apple of my eye, do you know the fate of Murat on Kosovo?" "I know." "That same fate awaits for you, tomorrow." "Never mind." "Never mind." "You died on Kosovo and we lost our freedom." "If I die tomorrow, maybe we shall get our freedom." "Teach..." "You will die stupid." "What is it, you are making?" "The shackles around his hands," "I'm making an underlayer." "He asked for this." "I hope he'll need it." "If not him, Vaso could use it." "It's late." "I have to go." "Yes." "You'd better go." "I will wait for the verdict at the gates." "I don't know why, but I always imagined that I will hear it from you." "Take it, please." "Will he protect me, now?" "He already protects you." "Before I deliver the verdict," "I ask the accused for the last time, do any of you have anything to say?" "Before we part," "I don't want you to take a bad impression about us with you." "We loved our nation." "We thought, if there are no men among us to do what we have done, we will never prosper." "I would like to add this." "Although Princip puts up a brave face, although all of us put up a brave face" "we are all very sorry." "We didn't know that the late Franz Ferdinand was a father." "We were greatly impressed by the words he had spoken to his wife." ""Sophie, don't die." "Stay alive for the children."" "We can be whatever you want, but we are not villains." "In my name and the name of my friends, I beg his children to forgive us." "We are not villains, we meant good." "We died for our ideals." "Èabrinoviæ doesn't have the authority to speak on my behalf." "Next." "About insinuations that someone else instigated this." "That is not true." "The idea was born in our minds, and we carried out the assassination." "We loved our nation." "I won't say a thing in my defence." "Read the verdicts, please." "Sentenced" "Gavrilo Princip, under section 112, having in mind his young age, to twenty years of hard prison." "Nedeljko Èabrinoviæ under section 112, having in mind his young age, to twenty years of hard prison." "Trifko Grabež, under section 112, having in mind his young age, to twenty years of hard prison." "Danilo Iliæ, under section 112, to death by hanging." "Mihailo Miško Jovanoviæ, under section 112, to death by hanging." "Veljko Èubriloviè, under section 112, to death by hanging." "Vaso Èubriloviæ, under section 112, having in mind his young age, to sixteen years of hard prison." "Cvjetko Popoviæ, under section 112, having in mind his young age, to thirteen years of hard prison." "Mitar Keroviæ, under section 112, to hard prison for life." "Ivo Kranèeviæ, under section 112, having in mind his young age, to ten years of hard prison." "TRAITORS!" "You know that it is not wise to come here." "Maybe they plan to kill me right now." "Before he left, Malek passed on his instructions for escape to Italy." "In an empty barrel with an oil transport." "The Government has just finished its session." "They discussed your case." "You are accused for acts against the Monarchy and the dynasty." "The Hungarians saved you." "Dr. Mandiæ and all the Croats wanted you to face the court-martial." "Which means..." "you lose your head." "Which means, a bigger Catholic than the Pope." "You were lucky." "Exile." "You've got 24 hours to leave the county, you will be under police escort." "You dug your own grave." "With that speech..." "Austria-Hungary dug its own grave with verdicts like that!" "It destroyed the foundations on which it was built." "Vienna confirmed the death sentences." "The hanging is tomorrow morning." "My dear wife, my angel." "When you receive this letter, my body will be dead, but my soul will embrace and kiss both of you." "Find comfort in our child." "Forgive, just as I forgive the ones who caused my death." "You are the most perfect woman of this century." "At the end, I shout to you, "I don't regret"." "Be happy." "Ljubica... my pet." "Farewell." "Kisses from Daddy." "Dear Mother, don't be too sad." "I don't need extra clothes." "Say hello to Auntie." "Your Danilo." "My dear Jovanka, my life companion." "I am going, and I don't leave anything to you and our child except my endless love." "Don't grieve too much." "It had to be this way." "I hold picture of you and Nada in front of me." "I kiss you both." "Some inner voice tells me that after my tragic end, you will be blessed by God's grace." "Be happy." "Time will heal this severe wound." "But darling, if you find the road too difficult for you to walk alone, find someone who will understand you the way I did, and you have my blessing." "Forgive me if you find these thoughts offending." "They are guided by love." "When Nada grows up enough to understand, tell her everything about her father and the turbulent times he lived in." "I take it that she will understand and forgive her father for being an orphan." "Yes..." "I ask and beg for her forgiveness." "My child." "All your father could leave behind was an honest and unblemished name." "May God grant you long lives." "Love, your Daddy Veljko." "It is easy for me, because I know I die for the national cause." "And you, and the ones you serve, may tremble before the nation who's sons die like we do now!" "Long live freedom!" "Long live freedom!" "Long live!" "Long live freedom!" "Is your name Murat?" "Veljko left this..." "for you and the other guards." "He said, have a drink." "I didn't know one thing." "I rode on the same train with Princip and the others on their way to prison." "Until this day I don't know how all those people found out about it and stood along the railway." "For many kilometres." "6 OUT OF 13 CONVICTED MEN DIED IN PRISON BEFORE THE END OF THE WAR." "AMONG THEM GAVRILO PRINCIP, NEDELJKO ÈABRINOVlÆ AND TRIFKO GRABEŽ" "VASO ÈUBRILOVIÈ, CVETKO POPOVIÈ AND IVO KRANJÈEVIÈ SURVIVIED THE WAR" "JUDGE CURINALDI BECAME A JESUIT AND WENT TO LIVE IN A TEMPLE" "ROSECUTOR SVARA DIED SHORTLY AFTER FROM BRAIN MEMBRANES INFLAMMATION" "PFEFFER WROTE A BOOK IN 1938 JUSTIFYING HIS ROLE IN THIS TRIAL" "RUDOLF ZISTLER RETURNED TO SARAJEVO AND GOT THE ATTORNEY LICENCE" "IN 1941, HE WAS TAKEN FROM ZAGREB TO USTAŠA CAMP" "HIS WIFE, JULIJANA OBERSCHMIDT SAVED HIM" "IN 1950, THE COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES ARRESTED HIM FOR BEING A DEFENCE LAWYER" "IN A CASE DEALING WITH NATIONALIZATION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY" "JOVANKA ÈUBRILOVIÈ NEVER REMARRIED" "SHE LIVED IN BELGRADE WITH HER DAUGHTER NADA WHO FINISHED LAW SCHOOL" "RUDOLF ZISTLER VISITED THEM EACH TIME HE WENT TO BELGRADE" "THIS FILM IS BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS" "THE RESEARCH MATERIAL USED FOR THIS FILM INCLUDE:" "WRITINGS BY RUDOLF ZISTLER, LEO PFEFFER AND JOVANKA ÈUBRILOVIÆ" "AS WELL AS COURT RECORDS AND LETTERS OF THE CONVICTED MEN" "SubRip by metalcamp DVD Rippers Slovenija"