Reinhard Heydrich, the third most powerful man in the Nazi Reich and the principal architect of the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, died in Prague on June 4, 1942, the ultimate result of an assassination plot carried out by Czechoslovak paratroopers sent back to their homeland by their exiled government in London. For 15 years, director, screenwriter, and cameraman Sean Ellis mulled over the idea for a movie adaptation of the operation named Anthropoid, during which time he sifted through masses of available material. He knew he wanted to gain insight into the way soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš felt vis-à-vis an act whose consequences for themselves would most certainly be fatal. One of the key events of the Second World War may be filmed as a meticulous period piece, an exciting and, at the same time, oppressive drama, a precise reconstruction of a heroic act, or a thoroughgoing study of human behavior in critical situations. Sean Ellis is one of the few filmmakers capable of combining it all and stamping it with his trademark style. The world premiere of this eagerly awaited film will open the 51st KVIFF.