Bobgnar!
YES, this film is primarily about the issue of whether this operation was actually necessary. No other historical film on this subject, or most others, so simply and profoundly raises this question, and without acting histrionics.
Please no one think the film shows a quark's worth of sympathy for Heydrich--it's not about that at all.
It was the Czech Government in exile that planned, authorized, and set the operation in motion--not the "Allies." They thought bagging Heydrich was better than doing nothing, but the consequences might not have been as apparent to them as they should have been.
Also, the unadorned, casual brutality of Nazi treatment of individuals has perhaps never been demonstrated on screen. Not because the shoot people--that's too easy and more "cinematic." I believe you have to see this film to get what I'm (so poorly) trying to express.
And, yes, there were only a handful of people at my showing, all were older than me (nearly 70) and they made not a sound throughout or afterwards. I must assume the story was already known to them, and they had some sense of personal stake in it.
This really is a "must see" film, and not just because I
"liked it." It's a thinking man's film in an age where "feeling" is elevated above all.
TVAG
goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.
