Anthropoid

Anthropoid (2016)

Timing: 2:0 (120 min)

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Photo 19

Actors and characters

Release date

2016-08-12

Country

Czech Republic, France, United States, United Kingdom

Production

LD Entertainment, 22h22, Lucky Man Films, Silver A

Genre

History, Thriller, War

Budget

$9 000 000

Revenue

$5 079 219

Website

http://www.bleeckerstreetmedia.com/anthropoid

Director

Sean Ellis

Actors

Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerová, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones, Alena Mihulová, Marcin Dorociński, Bill Milner, Sam Keeley
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Scenario

Sean Ellis, Anthony Frewin

Producer

Sean Ellis, Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon

Operator

Sean Ellis

Composer

Robin Foster

Artist

Audition

Des Hamilton, Kateřina Oujezdská

Editing

Richard Mettler
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• Jiri Sequens also filmed "The Attempt" (1964) on this topic, and Lewis Gilbert – "Operation Daybreak" (1975). Like "Anthropoid," they were filmed in Prague for greater authenticity.
• "Anthropoid" means "humanoid".
• Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (1904-1942) was the third person in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. The license plate of his car was SS-3.
• The filmmakers wanted to shoot in Moravec's actual apartment, but it turned out to be too cramped. The apartment set was built in one of the pavilions of the Czech Barrandov film studio.
• Sean Ellis began work on the project in the early 2000s after seeing a documentary about Operation Anthropoid.
• The tiles on the floor of Moravec's apartment did indeed have a pattern or ornament resembling a swastika. It was deliberately replicated during the creation of the set – as can be seen in the scene of Mrs. Moravec's interrogation by the Gestapo.
• The interior of the Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius was recreated in the pavilions of the Barrandov film studio in Prague. 40 people participated in the construction of the sets.
• Emily Watson was initially cast in the role of Pani Moravec, but she had to leave the project due to her father's illness, and the role went to Alyona Mikhulova.
• Irish actors Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan play Czechoslovak agents in the film.
• It is believed that Reinhard Heydrich was traveling in a car with the license plate SS-3 on the day of the assassination, although numerous sources claim it was a car with the number SS-4. It is impossible to confirm or deny this, as the arriving Gestapo officers first removed the license plate from the car and only then began taking photographs of the scene.
• During the war, the Gestapo headquarters in Prague was located in a bank building. Many fighters of the Czech resistance were tortured there, and now the building's basement houses a museum. The scene of Attia Moravec's torture was filmed in the very basement room where prisoners were actually tortured.
• "Anthropoid" means "human-like."
• The filmmakers wanted to shoot in Moravec’s actual apartment, but it turned out to be too cramped. The apartment set was built in one of the pavilions of the Czech Barrandov Studios.
• Sean Ellis began working on the project in the early 2000s after seeing a documentary film about Operation Anthropoid.
• The interior of the Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius was recreated in the pavilions of Barrandov Studios in Prague. 40 people took part in building the sets.