Operation Daybreak | |
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Directed by | Lewis Gilbert |
Produced by | Carter DeHaven |
Screenplay by | Ronald Harwood |
Based on |
Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess |
Starring |
Anthony Andrews Timothy Bottoms Martin Shaw |
Music by | David Hentschel |
Cinematography | Henri Decaë |
Edited by | Thelma Connell |
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Distributed by |
Warner Bros. (US) Columbia-Warner (UK) |
Release date
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Running time
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118 minutes |
Country |
Czechoslovakia United States |
Language | English German |
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. Starring Anthony Andrews, Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw, it was directed by Lewis Gilbert and shot mostly on location in Prague. It is adapted from the book Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess.