Reinhard Heydrich a Harmadik Birodalom harmadik embere volt, a Végső Megoldás kidolgozója és egyben a nácik által megszállt Cseh-Morva Protektorátus vezetője, akit 1942 júniusában megölt két, a londoni emigráns kormány által „megbízott” ellenálló. Heydrich halála iszonyú megtorlási hullámot váltott ki, végeztek az elkövetők rokonságával és minden ismerősével, egész falvakat irtottak ki, azt feltételezve, hogy a merénylők megfordultak ott, és tízezreket tartóztattak le. Az akció neve Anthropoid hadművelet volt...
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.
The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.