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RELEASED IN 1975 and directed by Lewis Gilbert, "Operation: Daybreak" tells the true story of Britain sending a trio of Czech-born commandos (Timothy Bottoms, etc.) to Czechoslovakia in 1942 to assassinate SS-General Reinhard Heydrich (Anton Diffring), Hitler's buddy, infamously known as "the butcher of Prague." Unfortunately, the Czechs paid heavily with the SS eradication of the innocent village of Lidice, as well as (not shown) Lezhaky, the village where the parachutists dropped and received aid in the first act.The movie plays like a docudrama with a haunting synth-based score, which some love and some hate (regardless, there's some period music as well). The story is a mix of drama, suspense, thrills and tragedy. It's not a typical WW2 movie due to the covert mission. It's more akin to "The Guns of Navarone" (1961), "36 Hours" (1964), "The Eagle has Landed" (1977) and "Valkyrie" (2008), although of course the story is totally different.One element of the plot will tick you off, but it happens (I'm not going to give it away). Nicola Pagett is jaw-dropping beautiful. The authentic Czech Republic locations are a plus. This really happened; and the ending chronicles what happened to the Czechs.THE FILM RUNS 118 minutes and was shot in the Prague area. WRITERS: Ronald Harwood (screenplay) & Alan Burgess (novel).GRADE: B

SS General Reinhard Heydrich (Anton Diffring) was assassinated by Czech members of the British forces in 1942 and this well made film seeks to convey their story.Well crafted, Lewis Gilbert's film takes an understated approach allowing the story to tell itself. It's a powerful story and doesn't need embellishing, so the film benefits accordingly. However, certain touches do add to the emotion of the piece, such as a younger sister searching for her brother at a time of danger, but being unable to find him. It's a moving scene in a moving film.The cast are universally excellent. Timothy Bottoms and Anthony Andrews do well in straight forward roles, and Martin Shaw impresses in his more challenging role as Karel Curda. Anton Diffring does his Nazi impression to perfection. There may be one or two small changes to the story but this is a film, and not a documentary. Highly recommended.

Film based on the true story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague and was adapted from the book Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess . During World War 2 , in 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich (he was 38 when he was shot but Anton Diffring who was in his late fifties) is appointed by Hitler (George Sewell plays two parts in this movie; he is a German officer, seen at the film's climax and also, briefly he plays Hitler) to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia , he is known as "The Butcher of Prague". As a squad of Czech expatriates formed by three soldiers : Jan Kubis (Timothy Bottoms) , Karel Curda , (Martin Shaw) and Jozef Gabcík (Anthony Andrews) are parachuted into Czechoslovakia in order to assassinate the German governor Reinhard Heydrich . The group is assigned a dangerous mission called Operation Daybreak ; it was designed by the Allies to eliminate a high-ranking Nazi (it is believed that Admiral Canaris passed crucial information to Allies for organizing the attack) . They are helped by partisans as Janák (Joss Ackland) , Anna (Nicola Pagett) and Pyotr (Vernon Dobtcheff) .On 27 May 1942, Heydrich proceeded on his daily commute from his home to Prague Castle. Gabčík and Kubiš waited at the tram stop at a tight curve . The spot was chosen because the curve would force the car to slow down . As Heydrich's open-topped Mercedes-Benz reached the curve, Gabčík stepped in front of the vehicle, trying to open fire, but his Sten gun jammed. Heydrich ordered his driver, SS-Oberscharführer Klein, to stop the car. When Heydrich stood up to try to shoot Gabčík, Kubiš threw a modified anti-tank grenade at the vehicle, and its fragments ripped through the car's right-rear fender, embedding shrapnel and fibres from the upholstery into Heydrich's body, even though the grenade failed to enter the car . The assailants initially hid with two Prague families and later took refuge in an Orthodox church dedicated to Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague. The Germans were unable to locate the attackers until Karel Čurda of the "Out Distance" sabotage group was arrested by the Gestapo and gave the names of the team's local contacts for a bounty .The assassination of Heydrich was one of the most significant moments in the history of the resistance in Czechoslovakia and is considered to be the strongest act of defiance throughout occupied Europe. The act had such an impact that it led to the immediate dissolution of the Munich Agreement as signed by Great Britain and France, as well as Germany's ally Italy. Britain and France agreed that after the Nazis were defeated the annexed territory (Sudetenland) would be restored to Czechoslovakia. As Heydrich was one of the most important Nazi leaders, two large funeral ceremonies were conducted. The first one was in Prague, where the way to Prague Castle was lined by thousands of SS men with torches. The second was in Berlin attended by all leading Nazi figures, including Hitler, who placed the German Order and Blood Order medals on the funeral pillow. The betrayer Karel Čurda, after attempting suicide, was hanged in 1947 for high treason .It is based on the novel by Alan Burgess and on a true story that also was adapted by Fritz Lang, in 1943 'Hangmen Also Die' , Hitler's Madman (1943) and Atentat (1964). It explores the preparations, execution, and aftermath of this operation and the bloody revenge on the Lidice village . Operation Daybreak shows the operation leading up to Heydrich's death as well as the massive German reprisals that followed it . This movie was one of the few productions who took the time and the effort of duplicating WW2 German Tiger tanks, and since the film was set in the Czech republic, the filmmakers made use of Czech army equipment .One of the best things about this interesting film results to be its excellent recreation , shot in Prague and authentic scenarios, we have the full details of the events, the arrival of the command, the plan of attack, the realization of it, the Nazis retaliated with physical elimination of Lidice, and as they surrounded the Church of St. Cyril by the treachery of one of the components of the command . The picture contains an intriguing but inappropriate original music by David Hentschel composed by means of synthesizer . Furthermore a functional and atmospheric Cinematography by magnificent French director of photography Henri Decaë . The motion picture was professionally directed by Lewis Gilbert . Lewis was a craftsman and expert on all kind of genres such as comedy : ¨Shirley Valentine , Educating Rita , The admirable Chricton¨ ; Adventure : ¨The seventh dawn , The adventurers ¨ ; James Bond movies as as : ¨Moonraker , The spy who loved me , You only live twice¨ ; Drama : ¨Alfie , A cry from the streets¨ and wartime : ¨Damn the Defiant , Sink the Bismark¨ .

Accounts of Heydrich's assassination (Operation Anthropoid) vary a great deal and I wouldn't entirely trust any account of this event, as each biographer (and country) seems to have their own agenda. The 1975 film "Operation Daybreak" (filmed in Prague and adopted from an Alan – not Anthony - Burgess novel) is a revisionist account. The assassination actually took place in the late morning (not daybreak) and involved a three (or four) man team of Czech commando's sent from England by exiled Czech President Eduard Benes. Valcike was the lookout, Gabcik was the primary assassin and was armed with a sten gun (a small British submachine gun-like an early Uzi), Kubris was the back-up assassin and carried a grenade in the pocket of his coat. Before his death 8 days later Gabcik detailed the operation in his journal. Interestingly, the siege at the church did begin at "daybreak" but the movie choose to place this action at midday (go figure).Generally correct is the movie portrayal of the actual assassination ambush. I'm hardly the last word on the subject but my understanding is that as Heydrich's open car slowed down for a hairpin curve, Gabcik attempted to shoot him but the Sten jammed. He had been instructed on how to clear the gun but in his panic could not recall the procedure, Heydrich had pulled his pistol and was pointing it at the gunman. As the car skidded to a stop the grenade exploded outside the passenger door. The wounded Heydrich began chasing Kubris, who had also been wounded by his grenade. When the shock wore off Heydrich realized he was wounded and was assisted into a van by Czech police and driven to a hospital. Heydrich's chauffeur was unharmed and found at the scene a few minutes later by some German infantrymen who were nearby on a training exercise. Some accounts have him being wounded while pursuing Gabcik.The assassination team got away in the confusion, as did all the on-site witnesses who for obvious reasons did not want to be questioned by the SS. They eventually made their way without incident to Karl Barromaeus church on Resslova Street, where the Czech resistance provided them with barge worker clothing and papers. They planned to float downstream to Melnik. But almost immediately Heydrich's second in command (Karl Frank-who was Secretary of State not the Gestapo chief) sealed the city and by pure chance (bad luck) the SS established a sentry post at the front of the church. As the SS crackdown continued four more members of the group managed to slip into the church from the presbytery next door. They hid in the crypt.For political reasons Frank did not want to offend the Greek Orthodox clergy and congregation so he did not close the church. But he did post a one million Crown reward and begin taking reprisals against the Czech population. At at-large paratrooper, Karel Curda (the Czech's Quisling), hoped that the capture of the assassination team would end the reprisals or was just attracted to the reward. He did not actually know where they were located but the information he provided eventually led to their location. Curda would later change his name, marry a German woman, and live out the war as a Gestapo operative. He was hanged for treason in 1947.Although everyone talks about the eradication of the innocent village of Lidice; the SS also wiped out Lezhaky, the village that actually assisted the parachutists who had been dropped with assassination team.The film goes completely off the reality meter with the final shoot out sequences at the Church. While accounts of this vary with the agenda of whoever is telling the story, most likely there were minimal casualties among the assaulting forces. The Germans wanted to take the paratroopers alive which made direct assault an unlikely tactic, the paratroopers were poorly armed with minimal ammunition, and while well concealed they could not do much shooting without exposing themselves to hostile fire. The official internal-use reports note only five soldiers wounded before the out-of-ammunition paratroopers committed suicide. There would be little reason to conceal casualties since the hotter the action the more justified would have been the failure to take any of the assassination team alive.It is unlikely that Heydrich was targeted because of his organizational genius or perceived value to the Third Reich. More likely he was targeted because of his position administering the conversion of the Czechs to National Socialism, which had included a Christmas massacre. It is likely that his assassination was the event that caused Hitler to finally abandon all remaining thought of resettling the Jews in the East (or elsewhere) and focus entirely on the extermination of all who were not useful as slave laborers.As a film Operation Daybreak is a rather pedestrian effort. Its production design is its strength as the Prague location shooting lent considerable authenticity to the effort. The editing and the screenplay are especially weak and account for the film's otherwise inexplicable failure to generate much suspense or audience identification.It does have one especially involving sequence showcasing Aunt Marie's daughter Jindriska (nicely played by Pavla Matejuvska who looks a lot like Saoise Ronan) just after her mother's capture. They cut between the tearful Jindriska frantically searching the Music School for her brother Ata, and Ata returning home and frantically searching the apartment for their parents. They go out of the sequence with the film's best shot, Jindriska has given up the search and is processing the full implication of what has happened; we see her tiny figure at the far end of the building's large corridor, dejectedly moving toward the camera, the faint sound of her slow footsteps the only audio. Its like a second unit with some cinematic vision briefly replaced the regular production team for this sequence.