Assassination (1965)
Atentát
In autumn 1941, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich’s brutal rule in occupied Bohemia and Moravia fuels Czech resistance. In spring 1942, the government-in-exile sends trained paratroopers led by Lt. Král on a mission to assassinate him. Masters Strnad and Vyskočil ambush Heydrich’s open Mercedes in Prague’s Libeň district, mortally wounding him despite a jammed submachine gun. Their success triggers harsh Nazi reprisals, mass executions, and an intense manhunt for the operatives.
- Date of release
- 1965-08-20
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- War, Drama, History
- Director
- Jiří Sequens
Casting
- Radoslav Brzobohatý — Adolf Opálka alias nadporučík Král
- Rudolf Jelínek — Jan Kubiš alias rotmistr Strnad
- Ladislav Mrkvička — Josef Gabčík alias rotmistr Vyskočil
- Luděk Munzar — nadporučík Sedlák
- Josef Vinklář — admirál Canaris
- Siegfried Loyda — Reinhard Heydrich
- Harry Studt — admirál Canaris
- Wolf Goette
- Gerhard Rachold
- Harald Halgardt
- Jiří Kodet — rotmistr Toušek zvaný Jožka
- Vlastimil Čaněk
Interesting facts
Atentát 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. Czech historians have called the film the historically most accurate depiction of the events surrounding Operation Anthropoid.
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