Atentát is a 1964 black-and-white Czechoslovak war film directed by Jiří Sequens. The film depicts events before and after the World War II assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Czech historians have called the film the historically most accurate depiction of the events surrounding Operation Anthropoid.
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Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordinated operation by the Czechoslovak resistance. The assassination attempt, code-named Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May 1942. Heydrich was wounded in the attack and died of his injuries on 4 June.
Heydrich's Typ 320 damaged by the anti-tank grenade
Reinhard Heydrich, the target of Operation Anthropoid, in 1940
Jozef Gabčík
Jan Kubiš