The First World War brought to a definitive end any of the optimism with which the century began. On June 28, a Serbian farmer’s son by the name of Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Six weeks later, war was declared. In Vienna, we meet the grandson of the murdered Franz-Ferdinand. In Sarajevo, still recovering from its most recent war, we meet Mile Princip, the assassin’s great-nephew. Depending on the way the winds of politics are blowing, his great-uncle alternates from being regarded as a hero to as a terrorist.
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