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Operation: Daybreak poster

Operation: Daybreak

"It was a hit and run operation with no place to run."

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PG 1975 · 1h 58m
Action, War
Starring Timothy Bottoms · Martin Shaw · Joss Ackland
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Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

Theatrical
Nov 1, 1975
Director
Lewis Gilbert
Writer
Ronald Harwood
Producers
Carter DeHaven, Stanley O'Toole
Music
David Hentschel
Studio
Vista, Howard R. Schuster, American Allied Pictures, Filmové studio Barrandov
Keywords
world war ii prague, czech republic 1940s thoughtful czech history dramatic assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942) lidice massacre empathetic
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Cast

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T
Timothy Bottoms
Jan Kubis
M
Martin Shaw
Karel Curda
J
Joss Ackland
Janák
N
Nicola Pagett
Anna
A
Anthony Andrews
Jozef Gabcík
A
Anton Diffring
Reinhard Heydrich
C
Carl Duering
Karl Frank
C
Cyril Shaps
Father Petrek
N
Nigel Stock
General
D
Diana Coupland
Aunt Marie
R
Ronald Radd
Carl, Aunt Marie's Husband
K
Kim Fortune
Atá
R
Ray Smith
Hájek
G
George Sewell
Heinz Panwitz, Chief Investigator
K
Kika Markham
Curda's Wife
F
Frank Gatliff
Surgeon
A
Aubrey Woods
Servant
R
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Fleischer, Gestapo
P
Philip Madoc
Heydrich's interpreter
V
Vernon Dobtcheff
Pyotr

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