Anthropoid

Release Date: August 19, 2016

Starring: Jamie Dornan as Jan Kubis
Cillian Murphy as Josef Gabcick
Toby Jones as Uncle Hajsky
Charlotte Le Bon as Marie Kovarnikova
Anna Geislerova as Lenka Fafkova

Directed by: Sean Ellis

Written by: Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin

The story of an assignation that change the face of a war. Jan and Josef are burdened with the job of the assignation of the Nazi's third highest in command Reinhard Heydrich, or better known as, The Butcher of Prague. This is the story of the planning, the execution, and the extraordinary aftermath of the assignation.

I found this to be one of the most movie movies of the year. Sean Elllis did the most fantastic job of directing and writing of this film. This film is moving  because of the choices that he made for the film.

One of the things that I have learned from watching all of these films this year is to ask the question "Why did this film had to be made". With this film I thought at first the it was tell a story that isn't told much in public school history book is World War II. Which is partly true because this story was either never told when I was in school or it wasn't as in depth to make it a story worth wild to really learn about. I was totally satisfied with that answer until the end of the movie came. See about the last 30-45 minutes of the film there is an epic battle at the Saint Cyril and Methodius Cathedral. Literally the last sequence is loud and in your face and after everything finally happened it goes eerily quiet. Then the names of the seven men who died come up on the screen. Sean Ellis gave a moment of silence to these mean who may not have otherwise received one.

Then he goes on to tell you that they held that church for six hours.... Six hours seven men held the church against 750 Nazis. This is one of those stories that we needed to be taught in school but never were. It's a turning point in World War II. Reason that Hitler wanted Czechoslovakia was because they would get a majority ruling of their coal, steal, iron, and electricity. Which would give the Nazis an upper hand in fueling their army. After the events in this movie took place Winston Churchill decided that the Allies could not just leave Czechoslovakia under Hitler's rule anymore. It make me wonder how if Churchill didn't do that how the War would have changed and what kind of ruling would Hitler would have had.

For sure this movie gets a solid 8 out of 10!