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Anthropoid is a 2016 war film directed by Sean Ellis and starring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerová, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones and Marcin Dorocinski, It was written by Ellis and Anthony Frewin.
The Walt Disney version of "The Talking Cricket" (Italian: Il Grillo Parlante), a fictional character created by Carlo Collodi for his children's book Pinocchio, which was adapted into an animated film by Disney in 1940. Originally an unnamed, minor character in Collodi's novel Dee Dee, Joey and Marky: Cockroaches: Oggy and the Cockroaches
Jozef Gabčík (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjɔzev ˈɡaptʂiːk]; 8 April 1912 – 18 June 1942) was a Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak Army involved in the Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of acting Reichsprotektor (Realm-Protector) of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.
The film is based on Laurent Binet's novel HHhH about Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. [5] The title is an acronym for Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich (" Himmler 's brain is called Heydrich"), a quip about Heydrich said to have circulated in Nazi Germany .
The novel follows the history of the operation and the lives of its protagonists—Reinhard Heydrich and his assassins Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš.It is interlaced with the author's account of the process of researching and writing the book, his commentary about other literary and media treatments of the subject, and reflections about the extent to which the behavior of real people may of ...
Lloyd was born in London, the son of Marion Evelyn (née Dickens), a children's publisher, and Jonathan Lloyd, who heads a literary agency. [2]He is the great-great-great-grandson of Victorian writer Charles Dickens through his mother, who is the daughter of Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, and the great-granddaughter of barrister Henry Fielding Dickens. [3]
John Carradine as Heydrich in Hitler's Madman (1943) directed by Douglas Sirk. The first known portrayal of Reinhard Heydrich was in the 1943 Hollywood film Hangmen Also Die!, in which Heydrich was played by Hans Heinrich von Twardowski.
Anthropoid means 'ape/human feature' and may refer to: Simian , monkeys and apes (anthropoids, or suborder Anthropoidea, in earlier classifications) Anthropoid apes , apes that are closely related to humans (e.g., former family Pongidae and sometimes also Hylobatidae and their extinct relatives)