Operation: Daybreak (1975)
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Also titled The Price of Freedom, Operation Daybreak is a retelling of the terrible consequences attending the assassination of Nazi-occupation leader Richard Heydrich. When Heydrich puts all of Czechoslovakia under his thumb, a group of Czech expatriates parachute into their homeland to kill the… More Also titled The Price of Freedom, Operation Daybreak is a retelling of the terrible consequences attending the assassination of Nazi-occupation leader Richard Heydrich. When Heydrich puts all of Czechoslovakia under his thumb, a group of Czech expatriates parachute into their homeland to kill the man known as "The Hangman." They succeed, and in retaliation the Nazis wipe the tiny Czech village of Lidice off the map, killing its male residents and carting off its women and children to concentration camps. For the purposes of the plot, assassins Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw survive the massacre, albeit only briefly. The Heydrich/Lidice tragedy was previously dramatized in two wartime films, Hangmen Also Die (1943) and Hitler's Madman (1943). Operation Daybreak was adapted from Seven Men at Daybreak, a novel by Alan Burgess. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Lewis Gilbert
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
PG,
- In Theaters
- Mar 5, 1976 Wide
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Cast
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Timothy Bottoms
as Jan Kubis
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Karel Curda
as Martin Shaw
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Martin Shaw
as Karel Curda
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Joss Ackland
as Janak
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Nicola Pagett
as Anna
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Anthony Andrews
as Joseph Gabcik
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Anton Diffring
as Reinhard Heydrich
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Diana Coupland
as Aunt Marie
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Ronald Radd
as Aunt Marie's Husband
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Kim Fortune
as Ata
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Pavla Matejovska
as Jindriska
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Carl Duering
as Karl Frank
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Cyril Shaps
as Father Petrek
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Ray Smith
as Hajek
- John Abineri
- Josef Abraham
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Vernon Dobtcheff
as Piotr
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Frank Gatliff
as Surgeon
- Gertan Klauber
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Reinhard Kolldehoff
as Fleisher
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William Lucas
as Doctor
- Philip Madoc
- Neil McCarthy
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George Sewell
as Panwitz
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Nigel Stock
as General
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Timothy West
as Vaclav
- Aubrey Woods
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Anne Lonnberg
as Sonja
- Keith James
- Jiri Krampol
- Cyril Cross
- Josef Laufer
