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Anthropoid

2016 2h 0m
History Thriller War
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7.1/10
1,194 reviews
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Anthropoid

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

"Resistance has a code name"

Top Billed Cast

Jamie Dornan
Jamie Dornan
Jan Kubiš
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy
Josef Gabčík
Charlotte Le Bon
Charlotte Le Bon
Marie Kovárníková
Anna Geislerová
Anna Geislerová
Lenka Fafková
Harry Lloyd
Harry Lloyd
Adolf Opálka
Toby Jones
Toby Jones
Jan Zelenka
Alena Mihulová
Alena Mihulová
Mrs. Moravec
Marcin Dorociński
Marcin Dorociński
Ladislav Vanék

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

R Reno Verified TMDB Critic
2016-12-04

**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 early days of the world war two, where the exile soldiers were sent to eliminate the nazi general Reinhard Heydrich, who was handling the Czechoslovakian affairs. From theirs preparation to the plan execution and the outcome of the result was what this film reveals for us.

A war film, that too was b...

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2024-08-11

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 and the Führer in the grand scheme of things. "Kubis" (Jamie Dornan) and "Gabcik" (Cillian Murphy) have been sent by the government in exile in London to kill this relatively poorly protected man, but their arrival causes considerable consternation amongst the local resistance. They fear, all too rea...

W Wuchak Verified TMDB Critic
2026-02-24

**_Riveting and sad Czechian tale of WW2_**

This tells the true story of London sending Czech-born commandos (Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) to Prague in late 1941 on a mission to assassinate SS-General Reinhard Heydrich the following May. He ranked in the top three or four leaders of Hitler’s SS and was infamously known as "The butcher of Prague,” not to mention he one of the principal architects of the Holocaust.

The story is a mix of drama, suspense, war action and tragedy. It's not a typical WW2 movie due to the covert mission. It's more akin to "Valkyrie” or the fictitious ...