Operation: Daybreak

1976

Operation: Daybreak

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Also titled The Price of Freedom, Operation Daybreak is a retelling of the terrible consequences attending the assassination of Nazi-occupation leader Richard Heydrich. When Heydrich puts all of Czechoslovakia under his thumb, a group of Czech expatriates parachute into their homeland to kill the man known as "The Hangman." They succeed, and in retaliation the Nazis wipe the tiny Czech village of Lidice off the map, killing its male residents and carting off its women and children to concentration camps. For the purposes of the plot, assassins Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw survive the massacre, albeit only briefly. The Heydrich/Lidice tragedy was previously dramatized in two wartime films, Hangmen Also Die (1943) and Hitler's Madman (1943). Operation Daybreak was adapted from Seven Men at Daybreak, a novel by Alan Burgess. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

Timothy Bottoms
as Jan Kubis
Karel Curda
as Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw
as Karel Curda
Joss Ackland
as Janak
Nicola Pagett
as Anna
Anthony Andrews
as Joseph Gabcik
Anton Diffring
as Reinhard Heydrich
Diana Coupland
as Aunt Marie
Ronald Radd
as Her Husband
Kim Fortune
as Ata
Pavla Matejovska
as Jindriska
Carl Duering
as Karl Frank
Cyril Shaps
as Father Petrek
Ray Smith
as Hajek
Timothy West
as Vaclav
Anne Lonnberg
as Sonja
Vernon Dobtcheff
as Piotr
Reinhard Kolldehoff
as Fleisher
George Sewell
as Panwitz
William Lucas
as Doctor
Frank Gatliff
as Surgeon
Josef Stoll
as Sefrna
Ludvik Wolf
as Klein
Nigel Stock
as General
Philip Madoc
as Heydrich's interpreter
Jiri Krampol
as Adolf Opalka
Josef Abraham
Jaroslav Drbohlav
Aubrey Woods
Cyril Cross
Radoslav Dubansky
Josef Laufer
Vitezslav Jandek
Neil McCarthy
as Man at Quarry
Gertan Klauber
as Kubelwagen Driver
John Abineri
Keith James
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  • Nov 07, 2009
    good. about 3 czechs who are sent back home by the allied command to take out one of the german high command. don't recall seeing any of the actors in anything else
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