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To me, this movie is perfection.

Sorry, this movie sucks

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I found this to be a moving film. It shows the courage not only of the men sent to kill an evil monster but also the resistance men and women already in the country who help them. It may not be 100% accurate and some scenes are included for dramatic effect but there is a lot of tension and, at times, terror in this film. Bottoms, Andrews and Shaw all put in good performances. When Shaw is wrestling with his conscience about betraying his comrades this is handled well. He has no excuse for his actions. In the film it appears to be that he wanted his family to be safe but in real life it was apparently because of the reward. However, Shaw is realistic at showing his character as he struggles with his conscience.Anton Diffring was always excellent at playing Nazis and here he portrays Heydrich as cold, ruthless and totally evil which most people would consider him to have been. He says that whatever happens to any Slav is of no possible interest to him which shows the total disregard the Nazis had for human life.The end of the film is very moving and sad. Bottoms, Andrews and their fellow fighters put up a tremendous resistance and it is particularly sad when the treacherous Shaw character asks them to surrender. The sadness of knowing their friend has betrayed them must have been hard to take and they make this obvious by firing at him. Overall I found this to be a great film. It shows the heroics of many people who went through a living nightmare to rid the world of the Nazis which I consider to be the most evil regime in history.

US directors and Script writers cant imagine to realize a movie in accordance with historical facts. Here is an example of falsification of historical facts which are very well and fully documented.To assess this nothing is so easy as to check this wikipedia report: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anthropoid .The different attempts to murder Heydrich did not occur as shown on the film.Maria committed suicide in the toilet after asking the Germans to let her go there before leaving the flat.She took a cyanide capsule.Ata was arrested with his father and was not interrogated in the flat as shown in the movie.He was interrogated with torture throughout the day, refused to talk. The youth was stupefied with brandy, shown his mother's severed head in a fish tank and warned that if he did not reveal the information they were looking for, his father would be next.This finally caused Ata to crack and tell the Gestapo what they wanted to know. Čurda did not play any part in this circumstance.Waffen-SS troops laid siege to the church the following day but, despite the best efforts of over 700 SS soldiers under the command of Generalleutnant Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld, they were unable to take the paratroopers alive; three, including Kubiš, were killed in the prayer loft (although he was said to have survived the battle, he died shortly afterward from his injuries) after a two-hour gun battle. The other four, including Gabčík, committed suicide in the crypt after repeated SS attacks, attempts to smoke them out with tear gas, and Prague fire brigade trucks brought in to try to flood the crypt. The Germans (SS and police) suffered casualties as well, 14 SS allegedly killed and 21 wounded according to one report although the official SS report about the fight mentioned only five wounded SS soldiers. The men in the church had only small-caliber pistols, while the attackers had machine guns, sub-machine guns and hand grenades. After the battle, Čurda confirmed the identity of the dead Czech resistance fighters, including Kubiš and Gabčík.How can a script writer have the nerve to distort history like this. How actors can accept to play in such a cheat!No, although the movie is very well played it doesn't deserve to be seen. It is mandatory to dramatize such events exactly as they occurred; this is part of the world history, some of the people can still be alive and especially the victims of the horror of the Nazi regime and their accomplices in the countries they invaded. It is an obligation to pay the victims tribute for what they suffered for us to be still in free countries today, by at least exposing their history with accuracy.Whether the USA believe it or not, we European were not playing Hollywood movies at the time and we deserve the utmost respect from this country whatever part did it take in the ending of the war which cant be used as an excuse for such gross distortions of facts.

We visited Prague last month as part of a tour of the "Blue Danube" which included Vienna and Budapest. Prague is one of the most fascinating and beautiful cities we've ever seen, and the tour guides showed us the church where the commandos took refuge, and also mentioned the legend of the crown of Saint Wenceslas (where Heydrich puts in on his head) at Prague Castle. Since we returned I've been reading up on the incident, and ordered the DVD from Korea. For an older, low budget film, they did a very good job in sticking to the true story. The music was a little annoying, and it's too bad they didn't have subtitles for the German characters. I'm reading a book on the fate of Lidice, and found an excellent publication from the Czech Ministry of Defense web site called "Assassination: Operation Anthropoid 1941-42". It can be downloaded at www.army.cz.

'Operation Daybreak' Which is based on a true story Is a criminally and largely Un-Seen ClassicOperation Daybreak, tells about the assassination of SS general Reinhard Heydrich,who was the inhumane,Reich protector assigned to Prague and Bohemia , Circa 1942,British intellegance informs The two men assigned to this perilous mission, that should Hitler die Heydrich, will Assume Hitler's place,The two men who carry out this deadly mission are The Last Picture Show's(Timothy Bottoms, And Martin Shaw (Tv's Judge john deed) The two who are Czech commandos's, are swiftly parachuted into Prague, Where they set about their plan which gets underway in no time,The mission unfortunately has it's unseen setbacks, Which sees Their target fatally wounded,and then come the massive reprisals, and the thrilling climax that has a bloody shootout in the church where the Partisans, are stationed, the film culminate's in the Churches's catacomb's to an excepitonally and emotionally driven end, Directed by Lewis Gilbert, (The Spy Who Loved Me, Educating Rita, Is a largely excellent production filmed on location in Prague itself, The film which is increasingly HARD to find Really does require a DVD,Urgently!!!