Operation Daybreak

Drama about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich a man of the SS security service and Reichprotector in Bohemia and Moravia. The film reconstructs the steps that led to the assassination of the one who was known by the nickname "the hangman of Prague" on May 27, 1942 by a cell of Czech expatriates who trained secretly in England and also the slaughter in the village of Lidice which followed in reaction to the assassination. Operation Daybreak is based on the book by Alan Burgess "Seven Men at Daybreak" published in 1960.