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The Man with the Iron Heart
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017 ·120 min ·Belgium, France, United Kingdom, United States of America ·R 16+
6.5
IMDb 6.4 КП 6.2 RT 67%
War, Action, History, Thriller
Director: Cédric Jimenez
📖 Based on the novel «Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich» byLaurent Binet
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With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

Budget: $32.68M
Worldwide: $4.41M
Jason Clarke
Actor
Rosamund Pike
Actor
Jack O'Connell
Actor
🏆3 nominations total

The Man with the Iron Heart is widely considered a disjointed and underdeveloped adaptation that struggles to balance a biographical portrait of Reinhard Heydrich with an action-thriller narrative about his assassination. While some viewers appreciate the grim historical focus and strong lead performances, critics generally agree that the film lacks narrative cohesion and fails to fully flesh out its characters.

Screenplay The film suffers from a fractured narrative structure that unsuccessfully attempts to bridge a biographical study of Heydrich with an assassination procedural.
Acting Jason Clarke and Rosamund Pike deliver committed, nuanced performances that provide the film with its most compelling dramatic weight.
Theme The film fails to provide sufficient depth or insight into the internal motivations of its protagonist, leaving Heydrich's characterization feeling surface-level.
Pacing Opinions on the pacing are split: some appreciate the expansive historical context, while others find the narrative transition between the two halves clumsy and disjointed.
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