Operation: Daybreak

About Operation: Daybreak

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

Operation: Daybreak is a 1975 war film directed by Lewis Gilbert. Its themes are empathetic, thoughtful, czech history, and assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942).

Timothy Bottoms takes the lead as Jan Kubis, Martin Shaw as Karel Curda, Joss Ackland as Janák, and Nicola Pagett as Anna. Released in November 1975, it runs 118 minutes.

The screenplay is by Ronald Harwood. Production companies include American Allied Pictures, Filmové studio Barrandov, and Howard R. Schuster. It streams on YouTube TV in the United States.

The Butcher of Prague, Anthropoid, and Summerland make useful companions to Operation: Daybreak, all filed under 1940s. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 50 votes and it carries a PG rating.