Review of The Man with the Iron Heart

Really good, tense war film about the assassination of Heydrich in Prague by the Czech resistance, with good acting and visualisation. The first half is mainly about Heydrich's rise through the Nazi party, so that we are quite sure that we hate him when he comes to be killed. Rosamund Pike plays his ambitious and very Nazi wife.

A few interesting asides: we have a tiny personal connection because our lovely friend Dave Kaspar is the son of the man who planned the assassination from London, and who wanted to take part in what was pretty obviously a suicide mission but wasn't allowed to. Also, it's mentioned in the film that there hadn't been any other examples of resistance fighters or partisans killing high-ranking Nazis, and I wasn't aware of any subsequent examples of this - so why this one? A friend shared a theory that Heydrich was killed because he was planning to move against Admiral Canaris, head of the German Navy intelligence service, who was actually a secret Allied sympathiser - and that the Allies organised the assassination even though they knew the reprisals would be terrible.

Watched on BBC iPlayer via laptop and HDMI cable, because our Chromecast broke - didn't realise how dependent we had become on it until it was gone. Have ordered another one.