Operation Daybreak

Operation Daybreak
Directed byLewis Gilbert
Screenplay byRonald Harwood
Based onSeven Men at Daybreak
1960 novel
by Alan Burgess
Produced byCarter DeHaven
StarringTimothy Bottoms
Martin Shaw
Joss Ackland
Nicola Pagett
Anthony Andrews
CinematographyHenri Decaë
Edited byThelma Connell
Music byDavid Hentschel
Production
companies
Howard R. Schuster, Inc.
American Allied Studios
Barrandov Studios
Distributed byWarner Bros. (US)
Columbia-Warner Distributors (UK)
Release dates
  • November 1975 (1975-11) (US (limited))
  • 29 February 1976 (1976-02-29) (UK)
Running time
118 minutes
CountriesCzechoslovakia
United States
Yugoslavia
LanguagesEnglish
German

Operation Daybreak (also known as The Price of Freedom in the U.S.[1] and Seven Men at Daybreak during production) is a 1975 war film based on the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of SS general Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Starring Anthony Andrews, Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw, the film was directed by Lewis Gilbert and shot mostly on location in Prague. It is adapted from the book Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess.[2]