

Anthropoid
Resistance has a code name
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
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7.1/10
1,205 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $4.6M
- Language
- Czech
- assassination
- nazi
- germany
- world war ii
- prague, czech republic
- biography
- female protagonist
- third reich (iii reich 1933-45)
- operation anthropoid
- czech history
- serious
- assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942)
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Produced in
Czech Republic, France, United States of America, United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR12 Aug 2016
- PhysicalRDVD, Blu-ray1 Nov 2016
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical159 Sept 2016
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA15+26 Oct 2016
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1812 Aug 2016
- Digital / OTT18Streaming3 Nov 2017
CzechiaCZ
- Premiere18+Karlovy Vary International Film Festival1 Jul 2016
- Theatrical28 Sept 2016
DenmarkDK
- Physical151 Nov 2016
FranceFR
- Theatrical1 Aug 2017
GermanyDE
- Physical1227 Jan 2017
GreeceGR
- Theatrical2 Feb 2017
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT159 Sept 2016
JapanJP
- Digital / OTTPG1212 Aug 2017
NetherlandsNL
- Physical16DVD, Blu ray16 Jan 2017
Frequently asked questions
Anthropoid was released on 12 August 2016.
Audience reviews
3- R8/10
Reno
12/4/2016
**Assassinating the nazi general was their mission, but it initiated the resistance.** Honestly, I thought it was some science fiction film. The title sounded like one, so I had to google for its definition. This is an assassination theme, that sets in the early 40s in the Czechoslovakia. The early days of the world war two, where the exile soldiers were sent to eliminate the nazi general Reinhard Heydrich, who wa…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
8/11/2024
This is a competent remake of the 1975 "Operation Daybreak" film that tells the story of the assassination of Hitler's Czech leader Reinhard Heydrich. It's fair to say that this man was a pretty ghastly individual, behind much of the Nazi's policies of extermination and answerable only to Himmler and the Führer in the grand scheme of things. "Kubis" (Jamie Dornan) and "Gabcik" (Cillian Murphy) have been sent by the g…
- W8/10
Wuchak
2/24/2026
**_Riveting and sad Czechian tale of WW2_** This tells the true story of London sending Czech-born commandos (Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) to Prague in late 1941 on a mission to assassinate SS-General Reinhard Heydrich the following May. He ranked in the top three or four leaders of Hitler’s SS and was infamously known as "The butcher of Prague,” not to mention he one of the principal architects of the Holocau…
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