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On Wednesday nights I normally leave my London office punctual and head north by Train. Instead I thought I would stick around a little longer and catch Anthropoid. War movies are all about goodies beating the baddies, and hence my train journey would a little more blissful knowing our guys won the day. Oh how wrong I was. It’s December 1941 and Operation Anthropoid is the true story of 2 Czechoslovakians soldiers parachuting back into their homeland in attempt to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich is Hitler’s 3rd in command and was central to the development of program to solve the “Jewish problem”. Currently he is controlling Czechoslovakia with an iron fist and generally being nasty to everyone who gets in his way. These are dark times and although the film is a war story at heart, it is the relationships between the soldiers and the Resistance that is the central play. Although it may be slow in parts, the story is well told and you feel for the troubles experienced by the characters however this is not for a cheerful night out. It paints a desperate country in the clutches of Nazi occupation and there’s little to lighten the mood. |
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