The mission, Operation Anthropoid, is successfully executed in the capital on May 27, 1942 by means of an ambush, but almost fails at a crucial moment when one of their Sten guns jams and they are obliged to use a grenade instead.
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The World War II story depicts events before and after the assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (Operation Anthropoid).
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On September 27, 1941, Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared top officials of the Nazi Party, an architect of the Holocaust and Hitler's possible successor, is appointed "Reichsprotektor" of Bohemia and Moravia.
Atentát, 1964 Czech film directed by Jiří Sequens depicting events before and after the assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in Operation Anthropoid
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The Day That Shook the World also known as Atentat u Sarajevu and Sarajevski atentat, 1975 Czechoslovak-Yugoslav-German co-production film directed by Veljko Bulajić, about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914