The Serbian film Bullets over Marseille directed by Gordan Matić has won an award at the Eighth Montelupo International Independent Film Festival in Italy. It was Matić himself who was awarded for best director.
The film follows the trial of the terrorists Zvonimir Pospišil, Mijo Kralj and Ivan Rajić, who were accomplices of Vlada Georgiev Černozemski, who assassinated King Alexander of Yugoslavia and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Louis Bartou, on October 9th, 1934 in Marseille, France. Through the reconstruction and dramatization of the real court proceedings, but also using material that was omitted during the trial, the film depicts a court drama and tries to come close to the truth about the process, but also about how peace in Europe came to an end. Did the Second World War actually begin in Marseille on October 9th, 1934, with the shooting of King Alexander and Minister Barthou?