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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 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 assassination attempt, code-named Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May 1942. [2] Heydrich was wounded in the attack [ 3 ] and died of his injuries on 4 June.
Operation Daybreak (also known as The Price of Freedom in the U.S. [1] and Seven Men at Daybreak during production) is a 1975 war film based on the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of SS general Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
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The mission, Operation Anthropoid, is executed in the capital on May 27, 1942, in an ambush. It almost fails when one of their Sten guns jams, but Heydrich is severely wounded by a grenade. Heydrich eventually dies from his wounds and during the frenzied aftermath the German high command takes savage reprisals, including the massacre of 340 men ...
Concerns Operation Anthropoid. 1960 United States Exodus: Otto Preminger: Based on the novel by Leon Uris; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. 1960 Yugoslavia Deveti krug: France Stiglic: English title: The Ninth Circle: 1961 Italy Gold of Rome: Carlo Lizzani: Italian title: L'oro di Roma: 1961 United States Judgment at Nuremberg: Stanley Kramer
Josef Valčík (pronounced [ˈjozɛv ˈval̩tʃiːk]; 2 November 1914 – 18 June 1942) was a Czechoslovak British-trained soldier and member of the Resistance in German-occupied Czechoslovakia who took part in the firefight during the aftermath of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, code named Operation ...