Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Nazi Germany after Hitler himself. The plot to kill him masterminded in England and carried through to finality in Prague in 1942, is told in this gripping dramatised documentary special. Featuring meticulous reconstructions, coupled with authentic historical film, some of it never shown before the film powerfully presents a vivid account of the only successful assassination of a leading Nazi in World War II. It also chillingly recreates the terrible human cost of SS savagery against the Resistance and the total obliteration of the village of Lidice.
Production
Rare archival footage never seen before this
Direction
Reconstructions that feel uncomfortably immediate
Writing
Narration that lets silence do the screaming
Director
Jan Kaplan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Heydrich's car—a Mercedes convertible—wasn't armored because he believed Czechs were too cowed to resist.
The operation was called Anthropoid, and British planners initially considered it a suicide mission too risky to back—they nearly scrapped it three times.
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