History Film / TheManWithTheIronHeart

See also and compare ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'' (1943), ''Film/HitlersMadman'' (1943), ''Film/{{Atentat}}'' (1964), ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975) and ''Film/{{Anthropoid}}'' (2016), all about the same historical events. The latter only covers the operation and aftermath from the point of view of the Czechoslovak commando.

See also and compare ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'' (1943), ''Film/HitlersMadman'' (1943), ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975) and ''Film/{{Anthropoid}}'' (2016), all about the same historical events. The latter only covers the operation and aftermath from the point of view of the Czech commando.

** Heinrich Mueller is presented as a Nazi Party member who joined Heydrich's intelligence agency under Hitler's direct orders. Mueller didn't actually join the party until 1939 and was [[MyCountryRightOrWrong blindly obedient to the state]] instead, suppressing communist movements while also urging the Bavarian government to retaliate against the Nazis. Heydrich mainly recruited Mueller because the latter's actions had made him politically vulnerable (and thus, dependent on Heydrich's patronage) and because he saw an advantage to keeping the SS independent of the party.

* ThePeepingTom: Heydrich spies on a general's weakness for prostitutes so he can use it to blackmail him.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Heydrich, who goes from a young officer who gets fired from the German navy because of a sex scandal to one of the brains behind the industrial murder machine that was UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.

** Heinrich Mueller is presented as a Nazi Party member who joined Heydrich's intelligence agency under Hitler's direct orders. Mueller didn't actually join the party until 1939 and was [[MyCountryRightOrWrong blindly obedient to the state]] instead, suppressing communist movements while also urging the Bavarian government to retaliate against the Nazis. Heydrich mainly recruited Mueller because the latter's actions had made him politically vulnerable (and thus, dependent on Heydrich's patronage) and because he saw an advantage to keeping the SS independent of the party.

* TheGhost: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is mentioned a lot, and a speech of his is heard over the film's opening scene, but he doesn't show up in person.

The film stars Creator/JasonClarke as Reinhard Heydrich, Creator/RosamundPike as Lina Heydrich, Creator/JackOConnell as Jan Kubiš, Jack Reynor as Jozef Gabčík, Creator/MiaWasikowska as Anna Novak and Creator/StephenGraham as Heinrich Himmler. It was shot in Prague and Budapest from September 2015 until February 2016.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Reinhard Heydrich, obviously. Then also a lot of people gravitating around the events, from Heydrich's wife Lina to Heinrich Himmler and the Czechoslovak resistants who carried out the attack, Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík most notably. Unlike ''Film/{{Anthropoid}}'' however, a number of resistants' names are fictional outside of Kubiš and Gabčík.

** While the climaxes of ''Atentát'' (1964), ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975) and ''Film/{{Anthropoid}}'' (2016) were filmed at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ss._Cyril_and_Methodius_Cathedral Orthodox church]] where the LastStand of Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš happened, the climax of ''The Man with the Iron Heart'' has been filmed at a different church, and a Catholic one at that.

** German soldiers being killed by Gabčík and Kubiš during the latter two's LastStand, with automatic weapons. The commando had only pistols when the assault happened, and the German force sent to catch/kill them only suffered five wounded.

The film stars Creator/JasonClarke as Reinhard Heydrich, Creator/RosamundPike as Lina Heydrich, Jack O'Connell as Jan Kubiš, Jack Reynor as Jozef Gabčík, Creator/MiaWasikowska as Anna Novak and Stephen Graham as Heinrich Himmler. It was shot in Prague and Budapest from September 2015 until February 2016.

* KillEmAll: Nearly every member of the Czech resistance involved in the plot dies in the aftermath of Heydrich's assassination. A ForegoneConclusion, given that the film is about historical events.

See also and compare ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'' (1943), ''Film/HitlersMadman'' (1943), ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975) and ''Film/{{Anthroppoid}}'' (2016), all about the same historical events. The latter only covers the operation and aftermath from the point of view of the Czech commando.

See also ''Film/{{Anthropoid}}'', a 2016 British film solely about the assassination from the Czechoslovakian point of view, in more linear fashion; and ''Film/OperationDaybreak'', a 1975 film also covering the assassination.

* ThoseWackyNazis: The movie naturally averts the trope since it's based on history, but there's still a little shade of it when Himmler makes a Nazi salute and grins out of respect for a (in his eyes) irreplaceable national-socialist peer as Heydrich passes away.