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Rate The Last Film You've Seen With Marks Out Of Ten - Part Two


Jeffrey Shaw

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Anthropoid 9/10 excellent war drama based

on true events about assassination of R. Heydrich

in Prague. Previously, this events were well portrayed

in Operation Daybreak 1975, this one is mirror image

of the book "Seven met at daybreak"

 

Love the cinema, Showroom, very nice retro style

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Anthropoid 9/10 excellent war drama based

on true events about assassination of R. Heydrich

in Prague. Previously, this events were well portrayed

in Operation Daybreak 1975, this one is mirror image

of the book "Seven met at daybreak"

 

Love the cinema, Showroom, very nice retro style

 

A really good film. I would say 9/10 as well.

 

The film did not skirt over the moral dilemma central to the story, i.e. how can it be justified to kill a brutal tyrant if the result will inevitably be dreadful reprisals and the installation of another tyrant?

 

The assassins were undoubtedly very brave men, but their actions led to the deaths of around 5,000 Czechs and Slovaks in reprisals. The event did not hasten the end of the war, nor loosen the Nazi regime's grip on the country, so on balance I think that 'Anthropoid' was a tragic mistake.

 

The action sequences are very well done in the film, especially the shoot out in the church.

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