Anthropoid, the true story of the mission to assassinate Hitler’s third in command, Reinhard Heydrich, arrives in cinemas this week [read our review here]. Freda Cooper talked to its director, Sean Ellis, about the film and how it sheds light on a lesser known corner of World War II history.On the 27th of May 1942, […]
Movie Review – Anthropoid (2016)
Anthropoid, 2016. Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Anna Geislerová, Charlotte Le Bon and Alena Mihulová. SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of WWII’s Operation Anthropoid, where resistance fighters in Czechoslovakia attempted to assassinate “Butcher of Prague,” SS General Reinhard Heydrich. According to Oxford Dictionaries, “anthropoid” means “resembling a human being in form.” In Sam […]
