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Watch The Explosive New Trailer For WWII Thriller, ANTHROPOID
Director Sean Ellis has come a long way since winning Best Director award at British Independent Film Awards for the hit 2013 drama, Metro Manila. His latest endeavor, Anthropoid, is kicking off events at Karlovy next month, and judging by the latest trailer from Bleecker Street Media, with a stark look into a riveting tale highlighting one of the most volatile game changing efforts of World War II. SYNOPSIS: ANTHROPOID is based on the extraordinary true story of “Operation Anthropoid,” the code name for the Czech operatives’ mission to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution, was the Reich’s third in command behind Hitler and Himmler and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia. The film follows two soldiers from the Czech army-in-exile, Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan), who are parachuted into their occupied homeland in December 1941. With limited […]
'Metro Manila' Helmer To Direct WWII Assassination Thriller, ANTHROPOID With Jamie Dornan And Cillian Murphy Starring
Oscar and BAFTA-nominated British director Sean Ellis is coming off a great precursor with his 2013 foreign language crime drama, Metro Manila, which picked of a slew of 9 wins and 11 nominations within the film festival scene at the time. Nowadays and 14 years into his career with his own inspiration, Ellis can be found preparing to take his his newest directorial efforts on location to Prague, pitting him right in the middle of World War 2 in the new assassination thriller, Anthropoid, with actors Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy leading. Written by Ellis and co-scribe Anthony Frewin, the film title is a reference to the Allied forces operation in 1942 carried out by two British-trained Czech soldiers who parachuted into their homeland in what led to a nearly-failed mission to kill Reinhard Heydrich, a top official in Adolf Hitler’s NAZI regime nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague” for his […]