Watch Jamie Dornan & Cillian Murphy in the Anthropoid trailer

Anthropoid was the codename for one of the most extraordinary stories of courage and heroism during World War II. It was a mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The Reich’s third in command after Hitler and Himmler, Heydrich was the main architect behind the Final Solution and the leader of occupying Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia whose reign of terror prompted Allied soldiers (Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.

The film stars Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey, The Fall), Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders, Inception), Charlotte Le Bon (Yves Saint Laurent, Bastille Day), Anna Geislerová (Something Like Happiness, Zelary), Toby Jones (Infamous, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Harry Lloyd (The Theory of Everything, Game of Thrones), Bill Milner (X-Men: First Class, Son of Rambow), Alena Mihulova (Krava, Nevinnost), Detlef Bothe (SPECTRE, Anonymous) and Sam Keeley (Adam Jones, Jadotville).

Oscar® and BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Sean Ellis (Metro Manila, Cashback) directs the film which is out on 12th August 2016.

Via IMDB