Operation Daybreak

Operation Daybreak
Directed by	Lewis Gilbert
Produced by	American Allied Pictures Československý Filmexport Filmové studio Barrandov Schuster Vista
Written by	Ronald Harwood
Starring	Anthony Andrews Timothy Bottoms Martin Shaw
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures (theatrical) National Broadcasting Company (original airing)
Release date(s)	November, 1975
Country	United States Czechoslovakia
Language	English & German

Operation Daybreak is a 1975 World War II film based on the true story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (see Operation Anthropoid) - starring Anthony Andrews, Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and shot mostly on location in Prague. It was adapted from the book Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess. The film was known as The Price of Freedom in the US.

Cast

• Timothy Bottoms as Sergeant Jan Kubis
• Martin Shaw as Sergeant Karel Čurda
• Joss Ackland as Janák
• Nicola Pagett as Anna
• Anthony Andrews as Sergeant Jozef Gabcík
• 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 Čurda's Wife
• Philip Madoc as Heydrich's interpreter
• Nigel Stock as General Cyril Cross
• Vernon Dobtcheff as Pyotr
• Frank Gatliff as Surgeon
• Vítezslav Jandák

See also

Articles on related films

• Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
• Hitler's Madman (1943)
• The Silent Village (1943)
• Atentát (1964)

External links

• Operation Daybreak at the Internet Movie Database