History Film / Anthropoid

* InterruptedIntimacy: Marie and Jan in one scene.

See also and compare ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'' (1943), ''Film/HitlersMadman'' (1943), ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975) and ''Film/TheManWithTheIronHeart'' (2017), all about the same historical events. The latter has a {{biopic}} focus on Heydrich's life and [[DuelingWorks was released mere months after]] ''Anthropoid''.

* ColdBloodedTorture: A favorite of the Gestapo. A little of it is shown when they interrogate [[spoiler: Ata]].

-->'''Josef Bublík''': That's our only way out!
-->'''Adolf Opálka''': It's also their only way up!

* HopeSpot: During the final shootout, first we have [[spoiler: the hope that the Nazi's won't find the hiding place of Jozef and the three men with him after Jan, Opalka and one of the paratroopers not involved in the mission are killed]] and then we do get a brief hope that their [[spoiler: chipping away at the wall to try and escape into the tunnels as they fight off the Germans]] might work.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The Gestapo indulge in [[PoliceBrutality beating Curda]] despite him giving them the information they wanted.

** Despite seeming like a place out of a horror movie the room where [[spoiler: Ata]] is being tortured is the actual historical room at so called Petschka palace, then the Gestapo headquarters in Prague, currently the Czech ministry of industry and trade.

-->'''Vanek''': [Anthropoid] is about the Czech government impressing the Allies?! It was the Allies who gave us to the Germans in the first place!
-->'''Hajský''': Munich was a betrayal...but it is also now history.

-->'''Vanek''': What is [[TitleDrop Anthropoid]]?
-->'''Jozef''': We are here to assassinate SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. ''([[StunnedSilence everyone else in the room is in shock]])''
-->'''Vanek''': [[SuddenlyShouting ARE YOU COMPLETELY MAD?!]]

* KillEmAll: Nearly every member of the Czech resistance involved in the plot dies in the aftermath of Heydrich's assassination. In fact, Ladislav Vaněk is the ''only'' person in the whole film who wasn't killed either during the events of the film, immediately afterwards, or shortly after the war ended.

** The catacombs beneath the church were labyrinthine in real life, while they're represented by a single large room in the film.

See also and compare ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'' (1943), ''Film/HitlersMadman'' (1943), ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975) and ''Film/TheManWithTheIronHeart'' (2017), all about the same historical events. The latter has a {{biopic}} focus on Heydrich's life.

* MassOhCrap: Jan, Opálka and Bublík, on guard duty in the cathedral prayer loft, have this reaction when they realise the Germans are surrounding the church. Josef, Valcik and the others resting in the crypt have it moments later when they're woken by the gunfire from above.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the group think they've botched the assassination, Curda declares his intention to flee Prague with his family. Josef immediately stops him, [[RealityEnsues pointing out that the Nazis have locked down the city and Curda will be arrested before he can escape]].

* TheCavalry: Played with, in that Opalaka, Bublik and Curda are sent in to help as the mission is underway rather than in the crisis-filled aftermath. The presence of the former two does help a lot but Curda turns out to be worse than useless.

** Despite seeming like a place out of a horror movie the room where [spoiler: Ata]] is being tortured is the actual historical room at so called Petschka palace, then the Gestapo headquarters in Prague, currently the Czech ministry of industry and trade.

See also ''Film/OperationDaybreak'', a 1975 film also covering the assassination plan against Heydrich, and ''Film/TheManWithTheIronHeart'', a 2017 French film about the same historical events, but with a {{biopic}} focus on Heydrich's life.

** The same is true of [[spoiler: Marie and Vanek]] who are alive and free at the end of the movie as far as the main characters know, but are prime targets for the manhunt although historically, the former died in a concentration camp.[[note]]Vanek was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo in September 1942, but managed to survive the war, dying in 1993[[/note]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the group think they've botched the assassination, Curda declares his intention to flee Prague with his family. Josef immediately stops him, pointing out that the Nazis have locked down the city and Curda will be arrested before he can escape.

** The same is true of [[spoiler: Marie and Vanek]] who are alive and free at the end of the movie as far as the main characters know, but are prime targets for the manhunt although historically, the former died in a concentration camp.

See also ''Film/TheManWithTheIronHeart'', a 2017 French film about the same historical events, but with a {{biopic}} focus on Heydrich's life.

* KickTheDog: A near literal example; a Gestapo officer furiously kicks Marie Moravcová's corpse when they find she's taken a cyanide pill.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of Ata and his father is not shown: [[spoiler: the last we see of Ata is him being dragged back to his cell after the Gestapo are done with him]][[note]]Historically, Ata only cracked under torture when, after being shown his mother's severed head, the Gestapo threatened to kill his father and do the same. Ata and Alois Moravec were executed at Matthausen concentration camp on 24th October 1942, along with Ata's girlfriend and her entire family[[/note]].