US directors and Script writers cant imagine to realize a movie in accordance with historical facts. Here is an example of falsification of historical facts which are very well and fully documented.
To assess this nothing is so easy as to check this wikipedia report: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anthropoid .
The different attempts to murder Heydrich did not occur as shown on the film.
Maria committed suicide in the toilet after asking the Germans to let her go there before leaving the flat.She took a cyanide capsule.
Ata was arrested with his father and was not interrogated in the flat as shown in the movie.He was interrogated with torture throughout the day, refused to talk. The youth was stupefied with brandy, shown his mother's severed head in a fish tank and warned that if he did not reveal the information they were looking for, his father would be next.This finally caused Ata to crack and tell the Gestapo what they wanted to know. Čurda did not play any part in this circumstance.
Waffen-SS troops laid siege to the church the following day but, despite the best efforts of over 700 SS soldiers under the command of Generalleutnant Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld, they were unable to take the paratroopers alive; three, including Kubi, were killed in the prayer loft (although he was said to have survived the battle, he died shortly afterward from his injuries) after a two-hour gun battle. The other four, including Gabčík, committed suicide in the crypt after repeated SS attacks, attempts to smoke them out with tear gas, and Prague fire brigade trucks brought in to try to flood the crypt. The Germans (SS and police) suffered casualties as well, 14 SS allegedly killed and 21 wounded according to one report although the official SS report about the fight mentioned only five wounded SS soldiers. The men in the church had only small-caliber pistols, while the attackers had machine guns, sub-machine guns and hand grenades. After the battle, Čurda confirmed the identity of the dead Czech resistance fighters, including Kubi and Gabčík.
How can a script writer have the nerve to distort history like this. How actors can accept to play in such a cheat!
No, although the movie is very well played it doesn't deserve to be seen. It is mandatory to dramatize such events exactly as they occurred; this is part of the world history, some of the people can still be alive and especially the victims of the horror of the Nazi regime and their accomplices in the countries they invaded. It is an obligation to pay the victims tribute for what they suffered for us to be still in free countries today, by at least exposing their history with accuracy.
Whether the USA believe it or not, we European were not playing Hollywood movies at the time and we deserve the utmost respect from this country whatever part did it take in the ending of the war which cant be used as an excuse for such gross distortions of facts.
To assess this nothing is so easy as to check this wikipedia report: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anthropoid .
The different attempts to murder Heydrich did not occur as shown on the film.
Maria committed suicide in the toilet after asking the Germans to let her go there before leaving the flat.She took a cyanide capsule.
Ata was arrested with his father and was not interrogated in the flat as shown in the movie.He was interrogated with torture throughout the day, refused to talk. The youth was stupefied with brandy, shown his mother's severed head in a fish tank and warned that if he did not reveal the information they were looking for, his father would be next.This finally caused Ata to crack and tell the Gestapo what they wanted to know. Čurda did not play any part in this circumstance.
Waffen-SS troops laid siege to the church the following day but, despite the best efforts of over 700 SS soldiers under the command of Generalleutnant Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld, they were unable to take the paratroopers alive; three, including Kubi, were killed in the prayer loft (although he was said to have survived the battle, he died shortly afterward from his injuries) after a two-hour gun battle. The other four, including Gabčík, committed suicide in the crypt after repeated SS attacks, attempts to smoke them out with tear gas, and Prague fire brigade trucks brought in to try to flood the crypt. The Germans (SS and police) suffered casualties as well, 14 SS allegedly killed and 21 wounded according to one report although the official SS report about the fight mentioned only five wounded SS soldiers. The men in the church had only small-caliber pistols, while the attackers had machine guns, sub-machine guns and hand grenades. After the battle, Čurda confirmed the identity of the dead Czech resistance fighters, including Kubi and Gabčík.
How can a script writer have the nerve to distort history like this. How actors can accept to play in such a cheat!
No, although the movie is very well played it doesn't deserve to be seen. It is mandatory to dramatize such events exactly as they occurred; this is part of the world history, some of the people can still be alive and especially the victims of the horror of the Nazi regime and their accomplices in the countries they invaded. It is an obligation to pay the victims tribute for what they suffered for us to be still in free countries today, by at least exposing their history with accuracy.
Whether the USA believe it or not, we European were not playing Hollywood movies at the time and we deserve the utmost respect from this country whatever part did it take in the ending of the war which cant be used as an excuse for such gross distortions of facts.