Anthropoid
Resistance has a code name
Country
Production
Budget
$9 000 000
Box office
$5 079 219
Director
Sean Ellis
Actors
Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerová, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones, Alena Mihulová, Marcin Dorociński, Bill Milner, Sam Keeley
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Sean Ellis, Anthony Frewin
Producer
Sean Ellis, Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon, Chris Curling, Léonard Glowinski, Jennifer Monroe, Kryštof Mucha, David Ondříček, Anita Overland
Camera operator
Sean Ellis
Composer
Robin Foster
Artist
Morgan Kennedy
Audition
Des Hamilton, Kateřina Oujezdská
Editing
Richard Mettler
Whole Team (45)
Whole Team (45)
Short description
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
What's left behind the scenes
- "Anthropoid" means "human-like."
- It is believed that Reinhard Heydrich was traveling in a car with the license plate SS-3 on the day of the assassination, although numerous sources claim it was a car with the number SS-4. It is impossible to confirm or deny this, as the arriving Gestapo officers first removed the license plate from the car and only then began taking photographs of the scene.
- Sean Ellis began working on the project back in the early 2000s after seeing a documentary about Operation Anthropoid.
- Jiri Sequens also filmed "The Attempt" (1964) on this topic, and Lewis Gilbert – "Operation Daybreak" (1975). Like "Anthropoid," they were filmed in Prague for greater authenticity.
- On the same subject, Jiří Sequens directed the film "The Assassination" (1964), and Lewis Gilbert directed "Operation Four Hours" (1975). Like the film "Anthropoid," these were filmed in Prague for greater authenticity.
- Sean Ellis began working on the project in the early 2000s after seeing a documentary film about Operation Anthropoid.
- During the war, the Gestapo headquarters in Prague was located in a bank building. Many fighters of the Czech resistance were tortured there, and now the building's basement houses a museum. The scene of Attia Moravec's torture was filmed in the very basement room where prisoners were actually tortured.
- Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (1904-1942) was the third person in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. The license plate of his car was SS-3.
- Emily Watson was initially cast in the role of Pani Moravec, but she had to leave the project due to her father's illness, and the role went to Alena Mihulová.
- Emily Watson was initially cast in the role of Pani Moravec, but she had to leave the project due to her father's illness, and the role went to Alyona Mikhulova.
- The Czechoslovak agents in the film are played by Irish actors Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan.
- The filmmakers wanted to shoot in Moravec’s actual apartment, but it turned out to be too cramped. The apartment set was built in one of the pavilions of the Czech Barrandov Studios.
- The interior of the Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius was recreated in the pavilions of Barrandov Studios in Prague. 40 people took part in building the sets.
- Irish actors Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan play Czechoslovak agents in the film.
- The tiles on the floor of Moravec's apartment did indeed have a pattern or ornament resembling a swastika. It was deliberately replicated during the creation of the set – as can be seen in the scene of Mrs. Moravec's interrogation by the Gestapo.
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