Operation: Daybreak
It was a hit and run operation with no place to run
1975 | 118m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Lewis Gilbert |
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| Writer: | Ronald Harwood |
| Staring: |
| Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 01, 1975 |
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| Director: | Lewis Gilbert |
| Writer: | Ronald Harwood |
| Genres: | Action, War |
| Keywords | world war ii, prague, czech republic, 1940s, thoughtful, czech history, dramatic, assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942), lidice massacre, empathetic |
| Production Companies | Filmové studio Barrandov, Vista, Howard R. Schuster, American Allied Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 05, 2026 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Timothy Bottoms | Jan Kubis |
| Martin Shaw | Karel Curda |
| Joss Ackland | Janák |
| Nicola Pagett | Anna |
| Anthony Andrews | Jozef Gabcík |
| Anton Diffring | Reinhard Heydrich |
| Carl Duering | Karl Frank |
| Cyril Shaps | Father Petrek |
| Nigel Stock | General |
| Diana Coupland | Aunt Marie |
| Ronald Radd | Carl, Aunt Marie's Husband |
| Kim Fortune | Atá |
| Ray Smith | Hájek |
| George Sewell | Heinz Panwitz, Chief Investigator |
| Kika Markham | Curda's Wife |
| Frank Gatliff | Surgeon |
| Aubrey Woods | Servant |
| Reinhard Kolldehoff | Fleischer, Gestapo |
| Philip Madoc | Heydrich's interpreter |
| Vernon Dobtcheff | Pyotr |
| Cyril Cross | |
| Jiří Krampol | Adolf Opálka |
| Radoslav Dubanský | |
| Josef Abrhám | |
| Josef Laufer | |
| Jaroslav Drbohlav | Josef Bublík |
| Vítězslav Jandák | Czech Resistance Member |
| Pavla Matejovska | Jindriska (uncredited) |
| Neil McCarthy | Man at Quarry (uncredited) |
| Gertan Klauber | Kubelwagen Driver (uncredited) |
| William Lucas | Doctor (Sonja's Father) (uncredited) |
| John Abineri | (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Thelma Connell | Editor |
| David Hentschel | Original Music Composer |
| Lewis Gilbert | Director |
| Ronald Harwood | Screenplay |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Stanley O'Toole | Associate Producer |
| Carter DeHaven | Producer |
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| 2026 | 1 | 7 | 47 | 0 |
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tanty
4.0
The plot is certainly interesting, even more for quite an important event during the WWII, but the movie doesn't really add anything to the story that cannot be read in a quick glance to the Wikipedia. The cast performs as if they would be robots, with poor dialogues, and the directing feels like ... if it would be done with a ruler and following a strict method. Not too bad in the latter, but it doesn't feel natural at all.
Jun 23, 2021