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Wikipedia article
'Atentt' (English title: 'The Assassination') is a 1964 black-and-white Czechoslovak war film directed by Ji Sequens. The World War II story depicts events before and after the assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague ('Operation Anthropoid'). Czech historians have called the film the historically most accurate depiction of the events surrounding 'Operation Anthropoid'.
The agents portrayed in the film are not referred to by their real names but by the historical cover names they assumed for the operation. For example, Jan Kubi is called Otto Strnad.
Plot
On September 27, 1941, Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared top officials of the Nazi Party, an architect of the Holocaust and Hitler's possible successor, is appointed "Reichsprotektor" of Bohemia and Moravia. As a result of his brutality and oppression he is also called "The Butcher of Prague" or "The Blond Beast".
In the UK, a squad of agents is selected and trained before parachuting into Czechoslovakia. The team operates in Prague and plans the attack for about six months. The mission, Operation Anthropoid, is executed in the capital on May 27, 1942 in an ambush. It almost fails when one of their Sten guns jams, but Heydrich is severely wounded by a grenade. Heydrich eventually succumbs to his wounds and during the frenzied aftermath the German high command takes savage reprisals, including the massacre of 340 men, women and children of Lidice and the razing of the village. The group is eventually betrayed by one of its members and they are cornered in a church crypt in Prague. In the gun-battle that follows all agents commit suicide.
Cast
* Radoslav Brzobohat 1st Lt. Krl (based on Adolf Oplka)
* Ludk Munzar 1st Lt. Sedlk (based on Alfred Barto)
* Ladislav Mrkvika Serg. Vyskocil (based on Jozef Gabk)
* Rudolf Jelnek Serg. Strnad (based on Jan Kubi)
* Ji Kodet Serg. Tousek (based on Josef Valk)
* Harry Studt - Wilhelm Canaris
* Josef Vinkl Serg. Vrbas (based on Karel urda)
Awards
*4th Moscow International Film Festival - Golden Prize.
*6th Thessaloniki Week of Greek Cinema - Honorable mention, foreign film out of competition.As ' '
See also
;Related films
*'Hangmen Also Die!' (1943)
*'Hitler's Madman' (1943)
*'The Silent Village' (1943)
*'Operation Daybreak' (1975)
*'Anthropoid' (2016)
*'The Man with the Iron Heart' (2016)
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