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Operation: Daybreak

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Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1975-11-01

Runtime: 118 mins

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Spoken language: Deutsch, English

Genres: Action, War

Original title: Operation: Daybreak

Production Companies: Vista, Howard R. Schuster, American Allied Pictures, Filmové studio Barrandov

Production Countries: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, United States of America

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The plot is certainly interesting, even more for quite an important event during the WWII, but the movie doesn't really add anything to the story that cannot be read in a quick glance to the Wikipedia. The cast performs as if they would be robots, with poor dialogues, and the directing feels like if it would be done with a ruler and following a strict method. Not too bad in the latter, but it doesn't feel natural at all.
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