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Reinhard Heydrich in film, 1943

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski,
Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang)

&

John Carradine,
Hitler's Madman (Douglas Sirk)

Reinhard Heydrich in film.

Martin Held in Canaris (1954)

Siegfried Loyda in Atentat (1965)

David Warner in Holocaust (1978)

again, David Warner, this time in
Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985)

#ReinhardHeydrich in film.

Portrayals of Heydrich and representations of the assassination.

Antropoid (2016) with Detlef Bothe

Detlef Bothe once again

in The Butcher of Prague

aka Lidice (2011)

#Heydrich assassination #OperationAntropoid

Representations of Operation Antropoid...

Jason Clarke as R. Heydrich in,

The Man with the Iron Heart aka HHhH (2017)

based on Laurent Binet’s 2010 novel HHhH—acronym standing for ‘Himmler’s brain is called—hirn heist—Heydrich’

#HistoryinFilm

In Tinto Brass' Salon Kitty (1976),

Biondo recalls Heydrich.

John Steiner playing in an art house precursor of the #nazisploitation cycle

Ray Proscia plays an aged Heydrich in
The Man in the High Castle (2015)

based on Philip K. Dick's alternate history novel #TheManInTheHighCastle published (and set) in 1962

#representations of #history

Kenneth Branagh plays Heydrich in Conspiracy (2001)

unlike most of the other films, not about the assassination but the #Wannsee Conference in which bureaucrats planned the #Holocaust

Dietrich Mattausch in Die Wannseekonferenz, 1984 (The Final Solution: The Wannsee Conference)

a real-time reenactment of the #WannseeConference & a brilliant study of the #BanalityofEvil

-imo the most successful portrayal, esp. in comparison to Branagh's overstated Heydrich

back to 1943

Douglas Sirk's 'Hitler's Madman' came out in June,
about two month after Fritz Lang's 'Hangmen Also Die!'

The two films opted for different paths for representing the Heydrich assassination that had taken place in Prague a year ago, on 27 May 1942.

#ww2films

Hitler's Madman was inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay’s ballad The Murder of Lidice.

tenhumbergreinhard.de/taeter-und-mit……

The village was destroyed by the Nazis as a reprisal for the assassination of the architect of the #Holocaust.

https://twitter.com/Agent_719/status/1241653278355660800/photo/1

#Lidice is the setting of Hitler's Madman.

Douglas Sirk was somewhat faithful to the actual events.

The film begins with a Czech resistance fighter airdropped into Czechoslovakia and the assassination takes place not in Prague but a country dirt road.

#WWIImovies

John Carradine’s Heydrich is domineering and viciously perverse. He ultimately ends up pathetically fearful and defeated.

#JohnCarradine #Classics #HitlersMadman

Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace in Hitler's Madman.

John Carradine's Heydrich abhors #philosophy.

#booksinfilm

On a sidenote, Hitler's Madman was produced by Seymour Nebenzal, the producer of Fritz Lang's M (1931) and Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933).

#antinazi #Germanexpats #WWII

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