Anthropoid

Anthropoid

2016 · 120 min · EN · R · 7.1 (1,156 votes)
Dir. Sean Ellis · Starring Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerová, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones · Music Robin Foster

Resistance has a code name

HistoryThrillerWar

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

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This is a relentlessly grim and tense historical thriller, steeped in the suffocating atmosphere of occupation and the desperate courage of those who resist. It feels like a slow, deliberate tightening of a knot, building to harrowing, high-stakes moments. A somber, propulsive journey through duty and sacrifice.

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