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Atentát
''Atentát'' (English title: ''The Assassination'') is a 1964 black-and-white Czechoslovak war film directed by Jiří Sequens. The World War II story depicts events before and after the assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (''Operation Anthropoid''). Czech historians have called the film the historically most accurate depiction of the events surrounding ''Operation Anthropoid''. The agents portrayed in the film are not referred to by their real names but by the historical cover names they assumed for the operation. For example, Jan Kubiš is called Otto Strnad. Plot On September 27, 1941, Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared top officials of the Nazi Party, an architect of the Holocaust and Hitler's possible successor, is appointed "Reichsprotektor" of Bohemia and Moravia. As a result of his brutality and oppression he is also called "The Butcher of Prague" or "The Blond Beast". In the UK, a squad of agents is selected and trained before parachuti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Moscow International Film Festival
The 4th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1965. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film ''War and Peace'' directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and the Hungarian film ''Twenty Hours'' directed by Zoltán Fábri. Jury * Sergei Gerasimov (USSR - President of the Jury) * Veljko Bulajić (Yugoslavia) * Zoltán Várkonyi (Hungary) * Marina Vlady (France) * Mircea Drăgan (Romania) * Raj Kapoor (India) * Grigori Kozintsev (USSR) * Jiří Marek (Czechoslovakia) * Czesław Petelski (Poland) * Kiyohiko Ushihara (Japan) * Leonardo Fioravanti (Italy) * Fred Zinnemann (USA) * Kamil Yarmatov (USSR) Films in competition The following films were selected for the main competition: Awards * Grand Prix: ** ''War and Peace'' and Sergei Bondarchuk ** ''Twenty Hours'' and Zoltán Fábri * Golden Prizes: ** ''Heaven on One's Head'' by Yves Ciampi ** ''Atentát'' by Jiří Sequens * Special Silver Prize: '' The Camp Followers'' by Valerio Zurlini * Silver Prizes: ** ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Anthropoid
On 27 May 1942 in Prague, Reinhard Heydrichthe commander of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and a principal architect of the Holocaustwas attacked and wounded in an assassination attempt by Czechoslovak resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. Heydrich died of his wounds on 4 June 1942. The assassination, codenamed Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by soldiers of the Czechoslovak Army after preparation and training by the British Special Operations Executive and with the approval of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, led by Edvard Beneš. The Czechoslovaks undertook the operation to help confer legitimacy on the government-in-exile, and to exact retribution for Heydrich's brutal rule. The operation was the only verified government-sponsored assassination of a senior Nazi leader during the Second World War. Heydrich's death led to a wave of reprisals by SS troops, including the destruction of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kubiš
Jan Kubiš (24 June 1913 – 18 June 1942) was a Czech soldier, one of a team of Czechoslovak British-trained paratroopers sent to eliminate acting Reichsprotektor (Realm-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid. During the attack, Kubiš threw the bomb that mortally wounded Heydrich. Biography Jan Kubiš was born in 1913 in Dolní Vilémovice, Moravia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Jan was a Boy Scout. Jan Kubiš, having previously been an active member of Orel, started his military career as a Czechoslovak army conscript on 1 November 1935 by 31st Infantry Regiment "''Arco''" in Jihlava. After passing petty officer course and promotion to corporal, Kubiš served some time in Znojmo before being transferred to 34th infantry regiment "''Marksman Jan Čapek''" in Opava, where he served at guard battalion stationed in Jakartovice. Here, Kubiš reached promotion to platoon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislav Mrkvička
Ladislav Mrkvička (2 February 1939 in Prague – 27 December 2020) was a Czech actor. He starred in the film ''Atentát'' and in the television series ''Thirty Cases of Major Zeman'', both under director Jiří Sequens. For his performance in the film ''Old-Timers'', he received the Czech Lion 2019 for Best Supporting Actor. In 1962, he graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. From 1991, he was a member of the National Theatre in Prague. In 2019, he received the Thalia Award The Czech ''Actors' Association'' has presented its annual Thalia Awards (Czech: Ceny Thálie) since 1993. The award is named after Thalia, the muse of comedy. The 2016 ceremony was broadcast by Česká televize and radio station . Thalia Awards a ... for Lifetime Achievement. Mrkvička died from COVID-19 in 2020.https://www.blesk.cz/clanek/celebrity-ceske-celebrity/665084/ladislava-mrkvicku-81-zabil-covid-pred-smrti-vyslovil-smerem-k-viru-prani.html References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Opálka
First Lieutenant Adolf Opálka (4 January 1915 – 18 June 1942) was a Czechoslovak soldier, member of the Czech sabotage group Out Distance, a World War II anti-Nazi resistance group, and a participant in Operation Anthropoid, the successful mission to kill Reinhard Heydrich. Opálka was born into a middle-class family in Rešice and joined the Czechoslovak Army in 1936 where he served in the 43rd Infantry Regiment in Brno. The Munich Agreement and subsequent German occupation of Czechoslovakia led to the disbanding of the Czechoslovak Army, and Opálka's career ended. He escaped to North Africa where he served in the French Foreign Legion, and he later returned to France. He then joined the Out Distance group and participated in Operation Anthropoid. He was found days later by the Nazis, and he committed suicide in the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague after a gunfight in which he was injured. Early life Opálka was born in Rešice near Dukovany the illegitimate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Sequens
Jiří Sequens (23 April 1922 – 21 January 2008) was a Czech film director. Life Sequens was born in Brno. After the Second World War, he went to Moscow where he studied film techniques. When he returned to Czechoslovakia he worked for Czechoslovak film industry. Sequens was an author of the propagandistic Czech films/TV series. His 1959 film '' Útek ze stínu'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Medal. His 1964 film ''Atentát'' was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize. Two years later he was a member of the jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1981 film ''Ta chvíle, ten okamžik'' won a Special Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. He died in a hospital in Prague of natural causes. Selected filmography * Třicet případů majora Zemana * Štědrý večer pana rady Vacátka * Vražda v hotelu Excelsior * Partie krásného dragouna * Pěnič ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Vinklář
Josef Vinklář (10 November 1930, in Podůlší – 18 September 2007, in Prague) was a Czech actor, a member of the National Theatre. He was married to Czech actress Jana Dítětová. Biography Born 10 November 1939, but when in 1946 the pastor exhibited a duplicate birth certificate and wrong date of birth of his and his brother and an incorrect date of birth of 14 November. After graduating from junior secondary school, he joined a one-year learning course (1945) and simultaneously began acting in children's radio Dismanova file. Already in 1945, was a guest speaker at the Theatre of Satire and played there in the season 1945/1946. In the years 1946–1948 he was engaged in theatres Jan Werich Voskovec and Werich, then worked in Pardubice East Bohemia Theatre (1948–1950). From August 1950 until July 1983 he has created a number of dramatic roles in Prague Realistic Theatre of Zdeněk Nejedlý (with the exception of the years 1951 to 1953, when he graduated from basic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Kodet
Jiří Kodet (6 December 1937 – 25 June 2005) was a Czech actor. He appeared in more than ninety films between 1951 and 2003. His mother Jiřina Steimarová and his daughter Barbora Kodetová Barbora Kodetová (born 6 September 1970) is a Czech actress perhaps best known for her portrayal of Paul Atreides' concubine Chani in the 2000 television miniseries ''Frank Herbert's Dune'' and its 2003 sequel, ''Frank Herbert's Children of D ... are also actresses. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kodet, Jiri 1937 births 2005 deaths Czech male stage actors Czech male film actors Czech male television actors Male actors from Prague 20th-century Czech male actors 21st-century Czech male actors Czech Lion Awards winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef Gabčík
Jozef Gabčík (; 8 April 1912 – 18 June 1942) was a Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak Army involved in the Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of acting ''Reichsprotektor'' (Imperial-Protector) of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. Life Youth Gabčík was born 1912 in Poluvsie, part of town Rajecké Teplice, Trenčín County, Kingdom of Hungary (then part of Austria-Hungary, now in northwestern Slovakia). He learned to be a farrier, as well as a blacksmith. He was also taught clock making at the village of Kostelec nad Vltavou (in central Bohemia). He was taught by local master blacksmith J. Kunike. He lived with the Kunike family in their house of which still stands together with the outbuilding and yard which was used as a smithy. In 1927 the school records show that he attended school in business studies at village Kovářov near to Kostelec nad Vltavou. The building which housed the school is today the municipal offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", alluded to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which Hitler and the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945 after just 12 years when the Allies defeated Germany, ending World War II in Europe. On 30 January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the head of gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luděk Munzar
Luděk Munzar (20 March 1933 in Nová Včelnice – 26 January 2019 in Modřany, Prague) was a Czech actor. He appeared in the Czech New Wave film '' The Joke'' (Jaromil Jireš, 1969) and starred in the film ''Poslední propadne peklu'' under director Ludvík Ráža in 1982. Quote of the article at Radio Praha: "Munzar war einer der bedeutendsten Film- und Bühnendarsteller seiner Zeit, er genießt hierzulande den Ruf einer Legende. Er gehörte über 30 Jahre zum Schauspielensemble des Prager Nationaltheaters. Auf der Bühne trat er oft gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Jana Hlaváčová auf." (in English: "Munzar was one of the most important film and stage actors of his time, he enjoys the reputation of a legend here in the Czech Republic He belonged to the acting ensemble of the Prague National Theatre for more than 30 years. On stage he often appeared together with his wife Jana Hlaváčová.") In the Czech Republic he was also known as the synchronized voice of Paul Newman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Čurda
Karel Čurda (10 October 1911 in Stará Hlína, today part of Třeboň – 29 April 1947 in Prague) was a Czech Nazi collaborator during World War II. Wartime activities A soldier of the Czechoslovak army in exile, Čurda was parachuted into the protectorate in 1942 as a member of the sabotage group '' Out Distance''. Later that year, he betrayed the Czechoslovak army agents responsible for the assassination of top Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich in Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate .... His reward was 10,000,000 Kronen or 1 million Reichsmarks and a new identity, "Karl Jerhot". He married a German woman and spent the rest of the war as a Gestapo collaborator. Execution After the war, Čurda was tracked down and arrested. When asked in court how he could betra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
