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Storm at Daybreak is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Richard Boleslawski, written by Bertram Millhauser, and starring Kay Francis, Nils Asther, Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Eugene Pallette and C. Henry Gordon.
Storm at Daybreak: Directed by Richard Boleslawski. With Kay Francis, Nils Asther, Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes. Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Richard Boleslawski
- 1933-07-14
Storm at Daybreak takes place within the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. It is June 28, 1914, and Archduke Ferdinand has just been assassinated by the Serbians. Young men, as young as twenty years of age, are drafted regardless of their inexperience with the service.
Tensions between the Serbs and the Hungarians in the Austro-Hungarian Empire reach their boiling point when a Serb assassinates the Archduke and war breaks out. Dushan returns home desperately trying to keep the Serbs in his town loyal to Austro-Hungary while protecting his people from the suspicious Hungarian army.
Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife. Cast. Crew. Details.
- Richard Boleslawski
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Storm at Daybreak - World War I provides a vivid backdrop for this tale of a romantic triangle complicated by international tensions. MGM borrowed Kay Francis from Warner Bros. to play a woman torn between her husband, Serbian mayor Walter Huston, and her husband's best friend, Hungarian Army captain Nils Asther.
Storm at Daybreak. After war is declared by Austria against Serbia, some Serbs are drafted into the Hungarian army. Many resist, and three deserters seek refuge on the estate of Mayor Dushan...
- Drama
