Operation Daybreak

Operation Daybreak
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
Production company	Howard R. Schuster, Inc. American Allied Studios Barrandov Studios
Distributed by	Warner Bros. (US) Columbia-Warner (UK)
Release dates	November 1975 (1975-11) (US (limited)) 29 February 1976 (1976-02-29) (UK)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia United States
Language	English German

Operation Daybreak (also known as The Price of Freedom in the US)^[1] 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.^[2]

Cast

See also

• List of American films of 1975
• Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
• Hitler's Madman (1943)
• The Silent Village (1943)
• Atentát (1964)
• Anthropoid (2016)
• HHhH (2016)

References

External links

• Operation Daybreak at the Internet Movie Database
• Operation Daybreak at the TCM Movie Database
• Operation Daybreak at AllMovie
• Operation Daybreak in the British Film Institute's "Explore film..." database
• Operation Daybreak at the British Board of Film Classification