Operation Daybreak
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| Directed by | Lewis Gilbert |
| Produced by | Carter DeHaven |
| Screenplay by | Ronald Harwood |
| Based on | Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess |
| Starring | Anthony Andrews Timothy Bottoms Martin Shaw |
| Music by | David Hentschel |
| Cinematography | Henri Decaë |
| Edited by | Thelma Connell |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. (US) Columbia-Warner (UK) |
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118 minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia United States |
| Language | English German |
Operation Daybreak (also known as The Price of Freedom in the US)[1] is a 1975 Second World War film based on the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of SS General Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Starring Anthony Andrews, Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw, it was directed by Lewis Gilbert and shot mostly on location in Prague. It is adapted from the book Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess.[2]
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Cast
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- Timothy Bottoms as Sergeant Jan Kubiš
- Martin Shaw as Sergeant Karel Čurda
- Joss Ackland as Janák
- Nicola Pagett as Anna Malinová
- Anthony Andrews as Sergeant Jozef Gabčík
- Anton Diffring as Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich
- Carl Duering as Karl Frank, acting Reichsprotektor
- Cyril Shaps as Father Petrek
- Diana Coupland as Aunt Marie Moravcová
- Ronald Radd as Karel Moravec
- Kim Fortune as Ata Moravec
- Ray Smith as Hájek
- George Sewell as Heinz Panwitz, Chief Investigator
- Reinhard Kolldehoff as Fleischer, Gestapo
- Kika Markham as Čurda's Wife
- Philip Madoc as Heydrich's interpreter
- Nigel Stock as General Cyril Cross
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Pyotr
- Frank Gatliff as Surgeon
- Pavla Matéjuvská as Jindriska
- Jiri Krampol as Lt Adolf Opalka
See also
- List of American films of 1975
- Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
- Hitler's Madman (1943)
- The Silent Village (1943)
- Atentát (1964)
References
- ↑ IMDb: Release dates for Operation: Daybreak Retrieved 2013-01-22
- ↑ IMDb: Literature for Operation: Daybreak Retrieved 2013-01-22
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Operation Daybreak at IMDb
- Operation Daybreak at the TCM Movie Database
- Operation Daybreak at AllMovieInvalid ID.
- Operation Daybreak in the British Film Institute's "Explore film..." database
- Operation Daybreak at the British Board of Film Classification
- Operation Daybreak at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
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