Operation: Daybreak (1975) on Netflix
Czech partisans Jan Kubiš, Jozef Gabčík and Karel Čurda are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia to strike at Reinhard Heydrich, the Reich Protector. Their landing goes wrong.
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Plot summary
Late in 1941, General František Moravec sends three Czech partisans on a military operation described as the most important of the war. The three, Jan Kubiš, Jozef Gabčík and Karel Čurda, were trained by the British. Their target is Reinhard Heydrich, the Reich Protector in Prague, seen as a possible successor to Hitler. They parachute into occupied Czechoslovakia but land off course: Gabčík injures his foot on the way down and Čurda comes down several miles away. Once they regroup, they make for Prague, where aunt Marie and her family take them in, and there the men work out how to carry out the operation.
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- Kim Fortuneas Atá
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Operation: Daybreak (1975)
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- For the destruction of Lidice, the film used replica Tiger tanks built on a T-34 chassis, and historic footage of the real destruction was inter-cut with new footage shot by Gilbert.
- In January 1975, the actor chosen to play Adolf Hitler had to be replaced because he turned out to be too small for the role; calls were made to Gunnar Möller and George Sewell, who played Heinz Pannwitz.
- While the film was shot in Prague, the swastika flag was hung around the city and at the railway station. An elderly woman arriving from the countryside had to be reassured by station workers that the German invaders had not returned.
- The film so impressed producer Albert Broccoli that it prompted him to hire its director, Gilbert, to direct The Spy Who Loved Me.
- The film shows Karel Curda's betrayal as that of a "treacherous weakling", but in reality his confession came after an order by Hitler for the execution of 30,000 Czech political prisoners of war.
