ANTHROPOID:
120 minutes
Friday, September 9 – 7 pm,
Saturday, September 10 – 4 & 8 pm,
Sunday, September 11 – 4 & 8 pm,
Wednesday, September 14 – 7 pm,
and Thursday, September 15 – 7 pm.
Anthropoid is based on the extraordinary true story of “Operation Anthropoid,” the code name for the Czechoslovakian operatives’ mission to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution, was the Reich’s third in command behind Hitler and Himmler and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia. The film follows two soldiers from the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile, Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubis (Jamie Dornan), who are parachuted into their occupied homeland in December 1941. With limited intelligence and little equipment in a city under lock down, they must find a way to assassinate Heydrich, an operation that would change the face of Europe forever.
Insider’s tip: “It takes Sean Ellis’s World War II thriller Anthropoid a while to build steam, but once it does, hang on” (Andy Webster, The New York Times). Soren Andersen of The Seattle Times adds: “Filmed in sepia tones to give it period flavor, infused with a sense of unrelieved tension and paranoia, and climaxing with a furious gun battle, Anthropoid is a gripping picture.”