Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

130 min · Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, drama film, war film

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Directors

Fritz Lang

Cast

Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe, Margaret Wycherly, Nana Bryant

The story

In Prague, during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. František Svoboda, a member of the Czech resistance, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich. Before he can escape the scene his getaway car is discovered, forcing his planned safe house to reject him.

Catalogue themes and tags

1942, 1943, Agenten, Assassin, Assassination, Besatzung, Czech, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Daughter, Dictatorship, Hangman, Hinrichtung, Kampf, Lecturer, Medic, NS-Zeit, Nazis, Occupying Power, Quest for Revenge, Rach, Resistance, Retaliation, Schutzstaffel, Surgeon, Victim, Waffen-SS, War Victim, Widerstand, faschism, prague, struggle for freedom, verrat, Drama, Black-and-white, War film

Genres

Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, drama film, war film

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