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Anthropoid 2016

This film is so utterly depressing that I am fighting to write anything about it. I don't even know if I liked it.

This is a drama about the German occupation of Czechoslovakia at the start of World War II. I am hot and cold with war movies, but am becoming more and more fascinated with the sacrifices people made, especially during the World Wars.

The horrors of WWII are well-documented, but this film is based on a seldom told story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, Hitler's third in command. It's last 30 minutes are so dour and desperate that I almost turned it off. But I stayed with it out of respect for how well made it is.

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