
Anthropoid(2016)
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.


“The true story of how the architect of the Holocaust was assassinated”
With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

Jason Clarke
Reinhard Heydrich

Rosamund Pike
Lina von Osten

Jack O'Connell
Jan Kubiš

Jack Reynor
Jozef Gabčík

Mia Wasikowska
Anna Novák

Stephen Graham
Heinrich Himmler

Thomas M. Wright
Josef Valčík

Barry Atsma
Karl Hermann Frank

Geoff Bell
Muller

Enzo Cilenti
Adolf Opálka
The Man with the Iron Heart is a war, action, history, thriller film released in 2017 exploring themes of assassination, based on novel or book, nazi, world war ii, operation anthropoid, czech history. Directed by Cédric Jimenez, it stars Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell. With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
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