Anthropoid review
So far this week we’ve brought you our glowing review of Sean Ellis’ WWII epic Anthropoid, and also an interview with the gifted filmmaker himself. Today we can bring you a new interview with the two stars of the film, Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan.
Anthropoid is based on the extraordinary true story of the World War II operation to assassinate SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich was the Reich’s third in command after Hitler and Himmler, and the main architect behind the Final Solution and the leader of the occupying Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia. Nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague,” his reign of terror and brutal crackdown prompted Allied authorities in London to hatch a top-secret mission, codenamed Operation Anthropoid, which would change history.
The film follows two soldiers from the Czech army-in-exile, Josef Gabcík (Murphy) and Jan Kubiš (Dornan), who are parachuted into their occupied homeland in December 1941. With limited intelligence and little equipment in a city locked down under Nazi occupation, they must find a way to assassinate Heydrich, the man many saw as Adolf Hitler’s natural successor.
Watch our exclusive interview with Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan below. Anthropoid opens across the UK on Friday September 9th.
