Product Review

This classic is now restored in collaboration with the BFI and Pinewood Studios, and includes a one-minute sequence not available in the domestic release.

Beautifully shot by James Wong Howe and tightly scripted by Brecht and Lang in their only collaboration, this noir-like espionage thriller is set in occupied Czechoslovakia and revolves around the successful 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 the killers.


DVD FEATURES: Restoration of previously censored footage; New 30 minute featurette with historian and author Robert Gerwarth;
Illustrated essay by Professor Peter Ellenbruch, University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany;
Feature-length audio commentary by Richard Peña;
1942 German Newsreel;
Restoration Before and After comparison;
2014 Re-release Trailer;
In English and German.