Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!

1943 · 134 min · EN · NR · 7.0 (104 votes)
Dir. Fritz Lang · Starring Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe, Margaret Wycherly

The shot heard 'round the world!

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During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

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A gripping wartime thriller that captures the suffocating tension of occupation. It's a story of desperate courage and the heavy price of defiance, steeped in the grim realities of resistance against overwhelming odds.

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