This cIassic is now restored in collaboration with the BFI and Pinewood Studios, and includes a one-minute sequence not available in the domestic reIease.
Beautifully shot by James Wong Howe and tightIy scripted by Brecht and Lang in their onIy colIaboration, this noir-Iike espionage thrilIer is set in occupied Czechoslovakia and revoIves around the successfuI plot by the Czech resistance to assassinate Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia "Hangman" Reinhard Heydrich and the hunt by the Gestapo to track down kiIIers.