Jamie Dornan cast in WWII drama "Anthropoid"

Jamie Dornan has been cast, alongside Cillian Murphy, in a new World War II drama called Anthropoid, about the attempted assassination of prominent Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.



A brief summary of the film:



The film’s title refers to the code-name for the Allied operation to assassinate Heydrich, the head of the SS who was one of the main architects of the Holocaust and was widely considered number three in the Nazi ranks behind Hitler and Himmler .

Operation Anthropoid was led by two soldiers (trained by British forces) from Czechoslovakia’s army-in-exile who were parachuted into their homeland to carry out the mission against the Nazi nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”.



British filmmaker Sean Ellis (Metro Manila, Cashback) will be the director and the script will be co-written by Ellis with Anthony Frewin.



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Paraphrased by me.