Anthropoid

In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.

Cast

Jamie Dornan

as Jan Kubiš

Cillian Murphy

as Josef Gabčík

Charlotte Le Bon

as Marie Kovárníková

Anna Geislerová

as Lenka Fafková

Harry Lloyd

as Adolf Opálka

Toby Jones

as Jan Zelenka

Alena Mihulová

as Mrs. Moravec

Marcin Dorociński

as Ladislav Vanék

Bill Milner

as Ata Moravec

Sam Keeley

as Josef Bublík

Reviews

Reno

**Assassinating the nazi general was their mission, but it initiated the resistance.** Honestly, I thought it was some science fiction film. The title sounded like one, so I had to google for its definition. This is an assassination theme, that sets in the early 40s in the Czechoslovakia. The ear...

CinemaSerf

This is a competent remake of the 1975 "Operation Daybreak" film that tells the story of the assassination of Hitler's Czech leader Reinhard Heydrich. It's fair to say that this man was a pretty ghastly individual, behind much of the Nazi's policies of extermination and answerable only to Himmler an...

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