Operation Daybreak

Operation Daybreak

Director: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Timothy Bottoms
Timothy Bottoms
, Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw
, Joss Ackland
Joss Ackland
, Nicola Pagett
Nicola Pagett
Lewis Gilbert
Operation Daybreak

Operation Daybreak

Director: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Timothy Bottoms
Timothy Bottoms
, Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw
, Joss Ackland
Joss Ackland
, Nicola Pagett
Nicola Pagett
Lewis Gilbert

DVD (Wide Screen)

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Overview

Also titled The Price of Freedom, Operation Daybreak is a retelling of the terrible consequences attending the assassination of Nazi-occupation leader Richard Heydrich. When Heydrich puts all of Czechoslovakia under his thumb, a group of Czech expatriates parachute into their homeland to kill the man known as "The Hangman." They succeed, and in retaliation the Nazis wipe the tiny Czech village of Lidice off the map, killing its male residents and carting off its women and children to concentration camps. For the purposes of the plot, assassins Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw survive the massacre, albeit only briefly. The Heydrich/Lidice tragedy was previously dramatized in two wartime films, Hangmen Also Die (1943) and Hitler's Madman (1943). Operation Daybreak was adapted from Seven Men at Daybreak, a novel by Alan Burgess.

Product Details

Release Date: 09/14/2010
UPC: 0883316276143
Original Release: 1975
Rating: PG
Source: Warner Archives
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 1:46:00
Sales rank: 31,639

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Timothy Bottoms Jan Kubis
Martin Shaw Karel Curda
Joss Ackland Janák
Nicola Pagett Anna
Anthony Andrews Joseph Gabcik
Anton Diffring Reinhard Heydrich
Diana Coupland Aunt Marie
Ronald Radd Her Husband
Kim Fortune Ata
Pavla Matejovska Jindriska
Carl Duering Karl Frank
Cyril Shaps Father Petrek
Ray Smith Hajek
Timothy West Vaclav
Anne Lonnberg Sonja
Vernon Dobtcheff Piotr
George Sewell Panwitz
William Lucas Doctor
Frank Gatliff Surgeon
Josef Stoll Sefrna
Ludvik Wolf Klein
Nigel Stock General
Philip Madoc Heydrich's interpreter
Jiri Krampol Adolf Opalka
Josef Abraham Actor
Jaroslav Drbohlav Actor
Aubrey Woods Actor
Cyril Cross Actor
Radoslav Dubansky Actor
Josef Laufer Actor
Vitezslav Jandek Actor
Neil McCarthy Man at Quarry
Gertan Klauber Kubelwagen Driver
John Abineri Actor
Keith James Actor
Reinhard Kolldehoff Fleischer, Gestapo
Kika Markham Curda's Wife
Josef Abrhám Actor
Karel Curda Martin Shaw
David Hentschel Composer

Technical Credits
Carter DeHaven III Producer
Lewis Gilbert Director
Roy Whybrow Special Effects
Ronald Harwood Screenwriter
Cyril Swern Sound Effects
Stanley O'Toole Producer
Doug Turner Sound/Sound Designer
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