Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
ANTHROPOID is based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler, Heydrich was the main architect behind the Final Solution and the leader of occupying Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia whose reign of terror prompted self-exiled Czech and Slovak soldiers (played by Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.i—Bleecker Street
1942. German-occupied Czechoslovakia is ruled by the brutal SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the third highest member of the Nazi government. Two Czech exiles are parachuted into Czechoslovakia as part of an operation known as Anthropoid. Their mission: assassinate Heydrich.—grantss