Lewis Gilbert's movie of 1975 told this story rather well and it is rather disconcerting seeing many of those involved in the making of ANTHROPOID saying on talk shows that this story has never been told before on film.
shareHow many people remember that movie?? No one even talk about it untill Anthropoid/HHHH had been announced.
shareI like Operation Daybreak but it is not well known now and was not a big thing in 1975,I know because I was alive then.
1975 was 40 years ago,seems ok to me to do another film on the same subject,especially since a lot of research has been done into the events since 1975.
But we can agree that Operation Daybreak is worth seeking out on dvd.
And...?
So has everything else. Everything has been done, one way or another. Why are people just now, noticing this?
It didn't stop them from redoing Ben-Hur (Which I am not happy with)
It didn't stop them from redoing The Thing (1983)
Yes, even prior to the 90s movies were being remade, stories were being remade. How many Frankenstein films were there?
Can we come up with a better observation besides what EVERYONE knows in the universe... except you for some reason...
I'm sorry, this is a rude post. But I won't edit it, because when you make stupid conclusions, you are bound to get a Duh-like response.
You're right. Your response was incredibly rude. Perhaps you should consider answering stupidity with patience instead of brutishness.
shareOperation Daybreak is not the only film made about this incident. It was also covered by in a Czechoslovakian film from 1965 called Atentat (The Assassination). The events in the film were also given the Hollywood treatment in a 1943 film directed by Fritz Lang called Hangmen Also Die.
I just watched Operation Daybreak a few weeks ago and it's startling how similar it is to Anthropoid...some scenes are nearly identical how the events are portrayed. The one thing most different about OD though is that it has quite a few scenes that with Heydrich (and strangely, they have the actors speaking in German but the film has no sub-titles for these scenes!).
I have--but haven't watched yet--the other two films. I've heard Atentat is pretty faithful to the actual events, but Hangmen takes the usual Hollywood liberties with the story to "spice things up" as most 1940s Hollywood movies usually do.
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It does not surprise me that films covering real events have similar scenes,how could they not?
It would be interesting to see the Czechoslovakian film since was made under a Soviet dominated government.
I like Hangmen Also Die but it was made in 1943 so is not going to be a realistic version of the story.
I like Operation Daybreak but it is an odd film,not what people expect from a modern film,so I welcome the new film.
I agree that Operation Daybreak could be considered "odd"...for a 1970s film. That may have been why it got an almost non-existent release at that time (if you go to the board for it, it seems everyone who's seen it prior to the dvd being released caught it when it screened on TV, not during it's initial release). I think it holds up pretty well, considering how dated a lot of films from that era now look.
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It also starred two great British actors, Martin Shaw and Anthony Andrews. The final scenes were filmed in the actual crypt at St Kirils. Everytime I go to Prague I visit it to pay my respects.
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