
Assassination
In autumn 1941, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich’s brutal rule in occupied Bohemia and Moravia fuels Czech resistance. In spring 1942, the government-in-exile sends trained paratroopers led by Lt. Král on a mission to assassinate him. Masters Strnad and Vyskočil ambush Heydrich’s open Mercedes in Prague’s Libeň district, mortally wounding him despite a jammed submachine gun. Their success triggers harsh Nazi reprisals, mass executions, and an intense manhunt for the operatives.
- Year: 1965
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Genre: War, Drama, History
- Studio: Filmové studio Barrandov
- Keyword: world war ii, based on true story, czech history, assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942), lidice massacre
- Director: Jiří Sequens
- Cast: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Rudolf Jelínek, Ladislav Mrkvička, Luděk Munzar, Josef Vinklář, Siegfried Loyda