

Hangmen Also Die!
The shot heard 'round the world!
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.
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- Language
- English
- assassination
- nazi
- hostage
- resistance
- world war ii
- surgeon
- czechoslovakia
- prague, czech republic
- gestapo
- double cross
- nazi occupation
- assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942)
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United StatesUS
- PremiereNR27 Mar 1943
- Theatrical1 Apr 1943
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A15 Apr 1943
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1525 Nov 1946
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1626 Jun 1953
FranceFR
- TheatricalParis27 Aug 1947
- Theatricalre-release24 Oct 2007
- PhysicalDVD4 Jun 2008
- PhysicalBlu-Ray13 Jun 2017
- Digital / OTTVOD10 May 2020
- TheatricalRe-release26 Apr 2023
GermanyDE
- Theatrical16Wiesbaden, West Germany3 Apr 1958
- TVWest Germany23 Oct 1974
- TVEast Germany9 Sept 1984
GreeceGR
- TheatricalPanorama of European Cinema12 Oct 2006
- Theatricalre-release20 Dec 2012
ItalyIT
- Theatrical10 Jan 1946
JapanJP
- Theatrical19 Dec 1987
- Theatricalre-release18 Sept 1999
MexicoMX
- TheatricalB29 Sept 1943
PortugalPT
- Theatrical5 Sept 1945
- TheatricalCinemateca Portuguesa8 Jan 2010
SwedenSE
- Theatrical153 May 1945
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Hangmen Also Die! was released on 1 April 1943.
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CinemaSerf
6/26/2022
Fritz Lang has assembled a really solid cast for this depiction of the Nazi terror inflicted on the Czech people after they decided to rid themselves of their German overlord Reinhard Heydrich. That historical event happens pretty early on, allowing us to focus on just how brutal the regime was, and on just how courageous those left were by continuing to oppose their oppressors despite some fairly arbitrary methods o…
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