Story of movie Operation Daybreak : Operation Daybreak (also known as The Price of Freedom in the US) is a 1975 Second World War film based on the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of SS General Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Starring Anthony Andrews, Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw, it was directed by Lewis Gilbert and shot mostly on location in Prague. It is adapted from the book Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess.
| Operation Daybreak | |
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| Directed by | Lewis Gilbert |
| Produced by | Carter DeHaven |
| Screenplay by | Ronald Harwood |
| Based on | Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess |
| Starring | Anthony Andrews Timothy Bottoms Martin Shaw |
| Music by | David Hentschel |
| Cinematography | Henri Decaë |
| Edited by | Thelma Connell |
Production company | Howard R. Schuster, Inc. American Allied Studios Barrandov Studios |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. (US) Columbia-Warner (UK) |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia United States Yugoslavia |
| Language | English German |
Screenplay
- Timothy Bottoms as Sergeant Jan Kubiš
- Martin Shaw as Sergeant Karel ?urda
- Joss Ackland as Janák
- Nicola Pagett as Anna Malinová
- Anthony Andrews as Sergeant Jozef Gab?ík
- Anton Diffring as Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich
- Carl Duering as Karl Frank, acting Reichsprotektor
- Cyril Shaps as Father Petrek
- Diana Coupland as Aunt Marie Moravcová
- Ronald Radd as Karel Moravec
- Kim Fortune as Ata Moravec
- Ray Smith as Hájek
- George Sewell as Heinz Panwitz, Chief Investigator
- Reinhard Kolldehoff as Fleischer, Gestapo
- Kika Markham as ?urda's Wife
- Philip Madoc as Heydrich's interpreter
- Nigel Stock as General Cyril Cross
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Pyotr
- Frank Gatliff as Surgeon
- Pavla Mat?jovská as Jindriska
- Jiri Krampol as Lt Adolf Opalka
- List of American films of 1975
- Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
- Hitler's Madman (1943)
- The Silent Village (1943)
- Atentát (1964)
- Anthropoid (2016)
- The Man with the Iron Heart (2016)
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