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Fact versus fiction on the silver screen

ANTHROPOID

Director: Sean Ellis Starring: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna
Geislerová, Harry Lloyd Country: UK/France/Czech Republic Released: 2016
The white knuckle retelling of the assassination
VERDICT Anthropoid holds steadier than Jan Kubiš
of Reinhard Heydrich hits its target when it comes to facts. A worthy effort indeed.

For the sake of drama and a If the romantic subplot Alright, this is super While the opening It’s not like us to focus on
01 heroic character arc, Jamie 02 seems a little trite, 03 pedantic — consider that 04 prologue oversimplifies the 05 what isn’t shown when we
Dornan’s Jan Kubiš is shown as that’s because it is. While Kubiš testament to Anthropoid’s A for Munich Crisis, it’s the description can nitpick over what is, but perhaps
visibly fearful, his hands shaking and Charlotte Le Bon’s Marie accuracy — but the radio used by of Czechoslovakia as ‘occupied’ that Anthropoid’s only real crime against
whenever he holds a pistol. In fact, Kovárníková coupled up, there’s no Gabčík would have taken about sticks in the craw. In actuality the history is its lack of context. The
Kubiš was battle hardened, having evidence that Cillian Murphy’s Jozef a minute or so to warm up, not Czech portion was, but Slovakia film gives us little idea of Reinhard
served with the French Foreign Gabčík and Anna Geislerová’s Lenka instantly blare into life with news became an independent puppet Heydrich’s misdeeds, let alone his
Legion in the 1940 Battle of France. Fafková followed suit. reports of the attack on Heydrich. regime under local fascist Jozef Tiso. leading role in the Holocaust.

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