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Hangmen Also Die! is a 1943 war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang and written by John Wexley from a story by Bertolt Brecht (credited as Bert Brecht) and Lang. The film stars Brian Donlevy, with Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, and Gene Lockhart, and Dennis O'Keefe in support.
A fictionalized account of the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Czechoslovakia during WWII. The film follows the resistance fighter who shot him and the family that hides him from the Gestapo, while 400 hostages are executed as a reprisal.
- (6.4K)
- Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
- Fritz Lang
- 1943-04
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovokia, insurgent Franticek Svoboda (Brian Donlevy) assassinates the brutal German leader Reinhard Heydrich (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski).
- (15)
- Brian Donlevy
- Fritz Lang
- War
The film is loosely based on the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi Reich Protector of German-occupied Prague, number-two man in the SS, and a chief mastermind of the...
- 132 min
- 107.5K
- BluRay Classic Studio
In Czechoslovakia on June 4, 1942 during the Nazi occupation of World War 2 the vicious Nazi Gestapo leader Reinhard Heydrich, known as The Hangman, is shot at a public location and the man responsible, Dr. Franz Svoboda (Brian Donlevy) has lost his escape because his driver has been arrested.
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process.
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When a Nazi officer is assassinated, Czech patriots band together to protect his killer.
