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Operation Daybreak

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Operation Daybreak (also known as The Price of Freedom in the US) is a 1975 Second World War film based on the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of SS General Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. [1]

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Adolf Opálka

First Lieutenant Adolf Opálka (4 January 1915 – 18 June 1942) was a Czechoslovak soldier.

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Alan Burgess

Alan Burgess (1 February 1915 – 10 April 1998) was an RAF pilot and English author who wrote several biographical and non-fiction books between the 1950s and the 1970s.

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Anthony Andrews

Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries Brideshead Revisited (1981).

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Anthropoid (film)

Anthropoid is a 2016 epic war film directed by Sean Ellis, written by Ellis and Anthony Frewin and starring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerová, Harry Lloyd, and Toby Jones.

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Anton Diffring

Anton Diffring (20 October 1918 – 19 May 1989) was a German character actor known for his portrayal of German officers and aristocrats in many film and TV appearances.

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Atentát

Atentát (english title: The Assassination) is a 1964 black-and-white Czechoslovak war film directed by Jiří Sequens.

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Barrandov Studios

Barrandov Studios is a famous set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Carl Duering

Carl Duering (born 29 May 1923 in Berlin, Germany) is a German-born British actor whose best known role is as Dr.

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Cyril Shaps

Cyril Leonard Shaps (13 October 1923 – 1 January 2003) was an English actor of radio, television and film, writer, producer and voice artist of Polish Jewish descent, with a successful career spanning over seven decades, perhaps best known for his appearance in the film The Pianist.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

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David Hentschel

David Hentschel (born 18 December 1952) is an English recording engineer, film score composer and music producer who engineered on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass and Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, as well as with artists including Genesis, Tony Banks, Ringo Starr, Queen, Nazareth, Marti Webb, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Peter Hammill and Ronnie Caryl.

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Diana Coupland

Betty Diana Coupland (5 March 1928– 10 November 2006), billed as Diana Coupland was an English actress and singer best remembered for her role as Jean Abbott on sitcom Bless This House, which she played from 1971 to 1976.

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Frank Gatliff

Frank Ernest Gatliff (1927–1990) was an Australian actor based in Great Britain, in several films but mostly on TV, in such series as Gideon's Way, The Baron, Danger Man, The Avengers, Department S, Strange Report, The Persuaders!, Doctor Who (in the serial The Monster of Peladon), Rising Damp, The Good Life, The Onedin Line, Blake's 7, Minder and C.A.B..

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George Sewell

George Sewell (31 August 19242 April 2007) was an English actor.

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Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die! is a 1943 noir war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang and written by John Wexley from a story by Bertolt Brecht (credited as Bert Brecht) and Lang.

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Henri Decaë

Henri Decaë (31 July 1915 – 7 March 1987) gained fame as a cinematographer entering the film industry as a sound engineer and sound editor.

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Hitler's Madman

Hitler's Madman is a 1943 World War II film about the assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich and the Lidice massacre revenge taken by the Germans.

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Jan Kubiš

Jan Kubiš (24 June 1913 – 18 June 1942) was a Czech soldier, one of a team of Czechoslovak British-trained paratroopers sent to eliminate acting Reichsprotektor (Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid.

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Jiří Krampol

Jiří Krampol (born 11 July 1938 in Buštěhrad, Kladno District) is a Czech film and theatre actor.

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Joss Ackland

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland, CBE (born 29 February 1928) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 130 film and television roles.

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Jozef Gabčík

Jozef Gabčík (8 April 1912 – 18 June 1942) was a Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak army involved in Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of acting Reichsprotektor (Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.

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Karel Čurda

Karel Čurda (10 October 1911 – 29 April 1947) was an active Czech Nazi collaborator during World War II.

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Karl Hermann Frank

Karl Hermann Frank (24 January 1898 – 22 May 1946) was a prominent Sudeten German Nazi official in Czechoslovakia prior to and during World War II and an SS-Obergruppenführer.

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Kika Markham

Erika S.L. "Kika" Markham (born 1940)birth registered 4th quarter (Oct, Nov, Dec) 1940 is an English actress.

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Lewis Gilbert

Lewis Gilbert (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter, who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

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List of American films of 1975

A list of American films released in 1975.

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List of rulers of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

This is a list of rulers of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which from 15 March 1939 until 5 May 1945 comprised the German-occupied parts of Czechoslovakia.

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Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw (born 21 January 1945) is an English actor.

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Nicola Pagett

Nicola Pagett (born Nicola Mary Scott; 15 June 1945) is a British actress.

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Nigel Stock (actor)

Nigel Hector Munro Stock (21 September 1919 – 23 June 1986) was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who played character roles in many films and television dramas.

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Operation Anthropoid

Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the assassination during World War II of Schutzstaffel (SS)-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office, RSHA), the combined security services of Nazi Germany, and acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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Philip Madoc

Philip Madoc (5 July 1934 – 5 March 2012) was a Welsh actor.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Ray Smith (actor)

Ray Smith (1 May 1936 – 15 December 1991) was a Welsh actor who played the tough-talking police chief, Detective Superintendent Gordon Spikings, in the television series Dempsey and Makepeace.

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Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and a main architect of the Holocaust.

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Reinhard Kolldehoff

Reinhard Kolldehoff (29 April 1914 – 18 November 1995) was a German film actor.

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Ronald Harwood

Sir Ronald Harwood, CBE, FRSL (born Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter.

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Ronald Radd

Ronald Radd (born 22 January 1929 – 23 April 1976) was a British television actor.

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The Man with the Iron Heart (film)

The Man with the Iron Heart (released as HHhH in France and Killing Heydrich in Canada) is an English-language French-Belgian biographical war drama-thriller film directed by Cédric Jimenez and written by David Farr, Audrey Diwan, and Jimenez.

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The Silent Village

The Silent Village is a 1943 British propaganda short film in the form of a drama documentary, made by the Crown Film Unit and directed by Humphrey Jennings.

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Thelma Connell

Thelma Connell (30 June 1912 – 29 April 1976) was a film editor from England.

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Timothy Bottoms

Timothy James Bottoms (born August 30, 1951) is an American actor and film producer.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Vernon Dobtcheff

Vernon Dobtcheff (born 14 August 1934) is a French actor.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1975 in film

The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.

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Operation: Daybreak, Operation:Daybreak, The Price of Freedom.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Daybreak

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