Filmed on location in Prague, the movie is noted for its period-accurate costumes and environments. Director Sean Ellis utilized a "shaky-cam" aesthetic and a muted, sepia-toned palette to evoke a sense of gritty realism and constant dread.
The film follows two exiled Czechoslovak soldiers, (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan), who are parachuted into their Nazi-occupied homeland in December 1941. With minimal intelligence and the help of a dwindling local resistance, they must plan and execute the assassination of Heydrich in the heart of Prague. The story is divided into three distinct phases: Anthropoid (2016)
The harrowing execution of the assassination attempt on May 27, 1942. Filmed on location in Prague, the movie is
A tense and slow-burning first act focused on the paranoia and technical difficulties of living as secret operatives in a city under brutal occupation. With minimal intelligence and the help of a