Anthropoid | 2016 | Advance | US One Sheet
Anthropoid is a 2016 film directed by Sean Ellis. He co-wrote the film with Anthony Frewin and co-produced with Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon and David Ondříček. The film stars Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon and Bill Milner. It tells the story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Exile Czechoslovak soldiers on 27th May 1942. The film shot was conducted entirely in Prague. Sean Ellis used the actual locations of the events told in the film. During an interview, Sean Ellis said that scenes in the Orthodox Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius were filmed on exact replicas of the church in a studio. This was to make the scene recognisable to Czech viewers. Reports gathered from 1942 allowed the dir...