ANTHROPOID Trailer Debut Here is the first ANTHROPOID trailer! The film, written and directed by Sean Ellis (The Broken), stars Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon, and Toby Jones. ANTHROPOID will be released in theaters on August 12. ANTHROPOID is based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The Reich’s third in command after Hitler and Himmler, Heydrich was the main architect behind the Final Solution and the leader of occupying Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia whose reign of terror prompted Allied soldiers (Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.