The shot heard 'round the world!
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
assassination
nazi
hostage
resistance
world war ii
surgeon
czechoslovakia
prague, czech republic
gestapo
double cross
nazi occupation
assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942)
lidice massacre