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It depicts Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by exiled Czechoslovak soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš in World War II. [5] [6] It was released on 12 August 2016 in the United States and 9 September 2016 in the United Kingdom.
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.
Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, [1] was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordinated operation by the Czechoslovak resistance.
This movie also features a minimalist representation of Heydrich's assassination which is not seen, only heard in the background. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2011, the extensive Czech television series (44 episodes) named Heydrich — konečné řešení ( Heydrich — Final solution ) used historical footage of Reinhard Heydrich combined with reenactment ...
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (/ ˈ h aɪ d r ɪ k / HY-drik, German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡ(ɘ)n̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] ⓘ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a German high-ranking SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei.
Atentát (English title: The Assassination) is a 1964 black-and-white Czechoslovak war film directed by Jiří Sequens.The film depicts events before and after the World War II assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (Operation Anthropoid).
Hitler's Madman is a 1943 World War II drama directed by Douglas Sirk.It is a fictionalized account of the 1942 assassination of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich and the resulting Lidice massacre, which the Germans committed as revenge.
Filming on the wartime-action movie based on the book, itself based on a factual story, was announced to be starting in November 1974 with screenplay by Ronald Harwood, [4] and based on the factual events of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. [5] The film was produced by Carter Dehaven and directed by Lewis Gilbert. [6]