Hangmen Also Die

A WWII propaganda movie. The Czech people universally defiant and noble. The Germans cartoonishly evil. The consumers of the movie not the ones living under Nazi rule nor making the sacrifices. A good example of the extent the movie industry would go to support the cause but not very accurate.

The theme of collective and individual guilt was held back by indifferent performances by Donlevey and Lee. While they under-played their parts, the Nazis' bravado was over-played resulting in an unbalanced performance that made it more of a propogandist film - an understandable response to world events in 1943.

I am from Prague. Dr. Svoboda was the neighbor of my grandparents. He was a roentgenologist, and he had service just in the time Heydrich was brought into hospital. So yes, he did his roentgen picture. And that was, the rest was taken over by German doctors.

Overlong and occasionally dull, however it deserves serious recognition for being one of the few "Propaganda Films" made in America during WWII that specifically attacks the Nazis and Fascism more broadly for their evil ideas and not just because they were our enemies.

A Czech perspective on Nazi occupation. Well made, but a little long.

Donlevy stiff. Obvious propaganda film doesn't hold up well, as sympathetic to the cause as I am!

saw on pbs tv 2-2017: Anthropoid 1943 movie "Hangmen also die"...starring Ryan Donlevy Brian Dunlevy and Walter Brennan! As. European. About Nazi Reinhold Heydrich About his assassination, but before it was actually known??

good WWII thriller based on actual events.

This fine Lang film, made during World War II after he moved Stateside, fully elucidated his fears and distaste for the Fascist regime of his homeland.

Between 3.5 and 3. One of these stories which is difficult to tell because it talks about common situations in cinema with dilemmas focused on defence of freedom (I presume they were not so common at that time, in the middle of the war), but which had to be told. Despite it, some interesting points.