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A thriller. On May 27, 1942 the German Reichsprotector of Bohemia/Moravia, the "Hangman" Reinhard Heydrich, died from the bullets of unidentified resistance fighters. The film is the story of Heydrich's assassination and of the search for his assassinators, two Czech underground members. The film was made in the United states of America during the Nazi occupation of the Czech Republic. The film was co-scripted by two German exiles, director Fritz Lang and playwrighter Bertolt Brecht.

results.listIds.director : Fritz Lang

results.listIds.year : 1943

results.listIds.duration : 129

results.listIds.lang : English

The Man with The Iron Heart

A feature film. Prague, 1942. The Third Reich is at its zenith, controlling most of Europe.

results.listIds.director : Cédric Jimenez

results.listIds.year : 2017

results.listIds.duration : 116

results.listIds.lang : English

Red Trees

A documentary by Award-winning filmmaker, Marina Willer (Cartas da Mãe), creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father's family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Photographed by Academy Award (R) nominee Cesar Charlone (City of God), the film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willer's father Alfred (as narrated by Tim Piggot Smith, Quantum of Solace), who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares, transportations and suicides but survived to build a...

results.listIds.director : Marina Willer

results.listIds.year : 2017

results.listIds.duration : 80

results.listIds.lang : English, Portuguese

Anthropoid

Drama based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler, Heydrich was the main architect behind the Final Solution and the leader of occupying Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia whose reign of terror prompted self-exiled Czech and Slovak soldiers to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.

results.listIds.director : Sean Ellis

results.listIds.year : 2016

results.listIds.duration : 120

results.listIds.lang : English, French, Spanish