USA / Czechoslovakia / Yugoslavia,
1975, 118 min
Directed by:
Lewis GilbertScreenplay:
Ronald HarwoodCinematography:
Henri DecaëCast:
Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett, Anthony Andrews, Anton Diffring, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Jiří Krampol, Kika Markham, Josef Abrhám (more)VOD (2)
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In OPERATION DAYBREAK, the Nazis have positioned maniacal commander Reinhard Heydrich (Anton Diffring) in the Czechoslovakian capital of Prague. Allied intelligence fears that should Hitler fail, Heydrich would continue the deadly expansion of the Third Reich. The British act quickly and send in three Czech parachutists to perform Operation Daybreak--a mission to assassinate Heydrich at any cost. The operation seems to be going according to plan for the Czech liberation movement until one of the parachutists, Sgt. Karel Curda (Martin Shaw), turns from Allied spy to informer, revealing the location of the Czech rebel headquarters to the Nazis. (official distributor synopsis)
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