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Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
143 audience votes
Key crew
- Fritz LangDirector
- John WexleyScreenplay
Cast
- Brian DonlevyDr. Franticek Svoboda
- Walter BrennanProf. Stephen Novotny
- Anna LeeMasha Novotny
- Gene LockhartEmil Czaka
- Dennis O'KeefeJan Horak
- Margaret WycherlyLudmilla Novotny
- Nana BryantMrs. Hellie Novotny
- William RoyBoda Novotny
- Hans Heinrich von TwardowskiReinhard Heydrich
- Alexander GranachGestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
- Tonio SelwartChief of Gestapo Kurt Haas
- Jonathan HaleDedic
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Themes
assassinationnazihostageresistanceworld war iisurgeonczechoslovakiaprague, czech republicgestapodouble crossnazi occupationassassination of reinhard heydrich (1942)