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starring: Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett, Anthony Andrewsdirected by: Lewis Gilbert (II)
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303082639
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0790721848
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: May 24, 1995
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 18290
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Description:
During World War 2 a squad of Czech expatriates are parachuted into Czechoslovakia in order to assassinate the German governor Reinhard Heydrich. Operation Daybreak, based on a true story, details the preparations, execution, and aftermath of this operation.
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Rating:  - VHS Recording - Operation daybreak
A hard to find title. However Amazon were up to the challenge. The item was fairly priced, professionally packaged, quite undamaged, and delivery was timely and without complication.
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Rating:  - Heart-wrenching but true WWII story of heroism
The movie is mostly historically accurate and filmed on location in Prague. Although made in the early 1970's, there are no tell-tale seventie's style cinematic or fashion faux pas. It looks like 1941 throughout. It is yet another story of loyalty and bravery coming out of the war years that will forever leave an impression upon your soul. I had a chance to visit Prague, just two weeks after first viewing the film, as well as the church and crypt where much of the action in the film takes place, ... Read More
Rating: - Underrated WWII Film
This is one of my favorite WWII films, not least because it's based on true events. One of the reviewers here mentioned that they should have provided subtitles when the Germans were speaking. I agree wholeheartedly and I can't imagine why they didn't. But at least the Germans speak German (though the Czechs speak English). It would be helpful to know what the Germans were saying but it doesn't seem to be all that necessary. I'm also looking forward to the DVD edition, though since this film didn't ... Read More
Rating: - Effective recreation of heroism in occupied WWII Europe
Simply suberb dramatization of the events surrounding the assassination of much feared Nazi SS-Obergruppenfhrer and Acting Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich in May 1942. The raid was carried out by Czech resistance fighters, trained by the Britsh Army, who parachuted back into Czechoslovakia, and were further assisted by undercover members of local Czech resistance networks.
A strong cast of predominantly English actors, with the exception of American Timothy Bottoms ... Read More
Rating: - Pretty close the the original story
This a gripping tale of the assassination of Heydrich. The only problem is that there are no subtitles for the German being spoken so those who are new to the movie will miss some vital lines. One of the main faults with the accuracy has to do with the convoy that Heydrich had in the movie. He was so vain and self-assured that he never used guards or a convoy. He believed that his Czech's would never do anything against him. In the end his cockiness killed him. This movie deserves to be made into a DVD as ... Read More
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