Welcome back to Movie Recap. Today I'm gonna show you a 2017 biographical action-thriller film
called, The Man with The Iron Heart. Spoilers ahead. Sit back, relax and enjoy the video.
The movie begins with Nazi commander Heydrich Reinhard wearing his uniform,
riding a car with his fellow man. Along their way on the busy road where people gather to work and
trains are passing, a man with his long black coat shows up, lifts his firing weapon and points it
toward Heydrich and the scene fades out. When the man is about to fire his weapon, he fails to pull
the trigger and this gives Heydrich to fire his weapon on him, yet another man behind their car
shows up and throws them an explosive weapon. The scene continues to Heydrich when he was
a soldier officer. He was waiting in the train station to meet Christina. When the woman arrived,
they went to a room and have an intimate activity. The scene transitions into a party where Heydrich
was invited. He met Lina, a woman who was mesmerized with his appearance.
They gracefully danced and spent their time to know themselves better.
When Heydrich and Lina were in the train on their way to Lina’s home, Lina introduced herself as a
member of a Nazi Party. Heydrich said that he had no problem with the information that
the woman had brought him. After their ride, Heydrich met Lina’s parents and made love.
In his commander’s office, Heydrich was confronted by the chief about having an
intimate relationship with Christina which led him to be summoned to appear in court-martial.
In the court-martial, Heydrich kept on denying the accused information about him.
But the court martial judge also kept on stating his sexual affair with Christina. After several
denial of the accusation, Heydrich admitted what he had with the woman, so the court dismissed
Heydrich of his position in the German Navy. Inside the room where Heydrich is locked,
he was furious as he stands from sitting on the bed and throwed every single thing that his hand
touches. Lina knocked the door and goes after him in the middle of his rage. She clearly offered to
spend her future with Heydrich and be his wife, but they should never talk about Christina again.
After Heydrich and Lina got married, Heydrich went to his house in front of the chicken farm.
Despite his case before, Heinrich said to Heydrich about his mission to look for a
commander of the new SS Intelligence Unit with the objective of gathering information about
their political enemies. Heinrich asked Heydrich to prove that he is deserving of the position.
Heydrich used his chicken farm as an example. He explained why it does not make money
and how to make it an efficient farm. Heydrich’s firm explanation convinced
Heinrich and appointed him as the new command of the SS Intelligence Unit.
When he got the position, Heydrich’s first mission is to kill all the communist criminals.
He commanded each of the member to search for their identity, take down their posters on
the streets and in every wall in the Germany. After they successfully fathered information,
Heydrich and other Nazi troops went to the communist hideout and kill each of them.
In the anointment of the newly recruit soldiers, Heydrich said their mission:
to eliminate anyone who stands against the Nazi Party, including their fellow troop members.
After he ignites the fire within their hearts, Heydrich and other Nazi troops hunts down each
troop and kills them. Blood sheds in different places where each falsely loyal man had killed.
Next, they went to villages to raid the Jewish communists and they film each massacre.
To establish the Germanization of the newest Reich, their next mission is to kill all aliens,
sick people and all those who were hostile to the nation. There, they kill each people
who was qualified on their listed criteria and let the unqualified to remain alive. Some were
kneeling and they were shot behind, while others were gathered to one room die from explosion.
After each people gave their last breath, the Nazi bury them together beneath a long graveyard.
In front of the citizens, Heydrich announced that the cities of Prague,
Berlin, and Vienna were free of Jewish. He added that this achievement is not yet enough,
so all Jews were required to be reported to the nearest police stations and required them
to wear a distinct symbol to testify their race. He added that the members of the Czech resistance
organization, a group who go against them, will be killed while the salaries of the Czechs who
work in the armament factories would increase. In Berlin, Heydrich conducted a meeting to plan an
advancement in the cleansing of the Jews. He asked each of his fellow men to review the background of
each Jews. To have a systematic approach, they had to gather the Jews in concentration camps,
separate them according to their sex and let those who can work to build roads and
other things while the rest will be included in a massive annihilation.
The first scene where a man with a long black coat tried to shoot Heydrich. When the man is about to
fire his weapon, he fails to pull the trigger and this gives Heydrich to fire his weapon on him, yet
another man behind their car shows up and throws them an explosive weapon and the scene fades out.
The next clip transitions to the journey of two men before they try to take Heydrich down.
They were in the Czech military base. These two men, Jan and Jozef, were cousins and are two
of the six soldiers of the Czech resistance group and their mission is to protect their
three kings, attack the Nazi and kill Heydrich. The Czech resistance group rode an armed plane
on their way to Prague. They plan to separate and go along the crowd. When they reach Pilsen,
Jan and Jozef came off with their parachutes and landed on a blanket of snow.
In their place, another commander approached Heydrich and talked about the two parachutists
who landed last night. Heydrich stated that they were looking for them along with the three kings.
In Prague, Jan and Jozef met Marie who patiently wait for their arrival. To successfully blend
themselves into the crowd, Jan and Jozef pretended to be normal citizens by getting a
work certificate, Jan made Marie and her family to be his relatives, while Jozef is to Anna’s family.
On the other hand, the Nazi successfully located the Czech resistance group’s hideout
where the three kings stayed. As soon as the Nazi arrived, fire from their weapons
shoots the glasses of the hideout and they were able to kill one king named Balaban,
captures the second king named Masin, while the third king named Vaclav Moravek escaped.
In their territory, Masin was paralyzed and covered with blood while a Nazi troop
forced him to spit information about the possible location of the third king. When Heydrich arrived,
he asks Masin about the motive of the two parachutists, Jan and Jozef. Masin did not
respond so Heydrich asked again about their motive and about the third king who successfully escaped.
To force Masin to speek up, Heydrich pointed a firing weapon to him. Instead of answering his
questions, Masin said his final salute to the Czechoslovakians before Heydrich took his life.
After he shot the second king, Heydrich ordered the other troops to find Moravek, the third king.
Jan and Jozef met again in one of the stoned barns in the middle of the field.
As they catch up together, Moravek arrived to tell them that the SS found their hideout
and killed Balaban. Moravek also added that the SS were able to capture Masin
and he concluded that he is also dead by that moment. The third king told Jan and Jozef that
Heydrich learned about their operation against the SS, so his troops were trying to locate
where they hide. Before Moravek left, he told the cousins about someone who could help them
to fill out information about Heydrich and the king also prepare them their escape plan.
In the beerhouse, Jan and Jozef met the man that Moravek talked about.
He works in the house of the Heydrich. Jan asked him to note about Heydrich’s schedule, he should
write on a piece of paper the time that Heydrich leaves their home and the time he arrives.
Also, he must also include if the man has an escort or not. After he wrote each information,
the man shall pass the paper to the intermediary person between him and Jozef. Jan wanted to know
every move that Heydrich takes and also the things that he repeatedly does in every day.
After they learned about his habits and schedule, Jan and Jozef went on the road where they plan to
execute Heydrich. They knew that Heydrich go to that road at around ten o’ clock in the morning.
Jan and Jozef plan to get another man from Moravek to serve as a lookout.
After several days, Jan was riding his bike and stopped when he saw Heydrich and his
men on the road. They are gathered in front of the building where Moravek was staying.
Knowing about the possible attack, Jan placed himself on the side and watched the troops
attacked their king. On their way inside the building, Moravek held a firing weapon
and successfully shoots each of the troops. After he killed each of them, he went to the
balcony where Heydrich, Jan, and others see him. Moravek lifted his arm, placed his firing weapon
onto his head, pulled its trigger and took his own life. Everyone was astounded, except for Heydrich
who celebrated. With a proud voice, he told to the crowd who saw the horrifying scene that the
three kings were dead and the Czech Resistance group is done. He encouraged each of them to
spread the news and tell that the war is over. Jan saw everything and he devastatingly went home.
In their hideout, Czechoslovakians received a message from London that if they continue their
plan of killing Heydrich, they are not just risking their own lives, but also the lives
of their loved ones. Some of them agreed on the message, but Jan insisted that Heydrich must die.
He argued that they had to break the notion that Nazi are invincible by doing their duty
as soldiers: to kill one high ranking official. After his statement, Jan and Jozef proceeded to
their original plan of killing Heydrich with the help of Valcik, one the Czech soldiers.
In the present time, the three Czech Resistance are about to do their plan. Each of them prepares
to kill Heydrich in the outskirts of the town. Before it hits ten o’ clock in the morning,
the three of them are already in their triangular position. Jozef and Valcik on the left side of
the road while Jan positions himself on the right side. Jozef holds the firing weapon, Jan has the
explosive weapon, while the lookout Valcik holds a mirror to serve as a signal to Jozef. Each of them
stares to each other with intense focus of what is about to come. In the middle of the busy street,
the three men are gearing themselves up, ready to fight for their country and against the Nazi.
When Vlacik spots Heydrich’s car, he raises his arm and shows the mirror to Jozef. With this
signal, Jozef immediately hides his weapons behind his body and shows up in the middle of the road to
interrupt Heydrich and his escort. Jozef takes out his firing weapon and when he pulls the trigger,
it fails to fire. Before Jozef revives his firing weapon, Heydrich gets his time to pull
his firing weapon and tries to shoot Jozef, but the latter successfully hides behind the truck.
After Jozef hides, Jan appears behind Heydrich’s car and throws them an explosive weapon which
go under their car and explodes. The explosion causes a tremendous fear to others and everyone
shouts in horror and run away from where the bombing happens. Smokes fill out the car
and Heydrich go out of it, heavily injured. Even if his energy is slowly losing,
Heydrich stands and shoots after the Czechs. He imprecisely shoots everywhere
and walks slowly when the Nazi troops arrive to recuse him and place him to the nearest hospital.
After the attack, the Nazi troops go to each house to search for the suspects.
Jan successfully hides piles of brick above the window. Jozef, on the other hand, goes to
church and below it is the Czech resistance hideout where the remaining soldiers stay.
In the hospital room where Heydrich and Lina stays, the commander is as pale as ghost.
Heydrich’s vision starts to get blurry as he slowly takes his fading breath.
When he has the ability to open his mouth, Heydrich murmurs to Lina.
He tells her to raise their children as s good Aryans and to be worthy Germans. In the middle of
his murmurs, Himmler arrives to visit him. Minutes after his arrival, Heydrich gives his last breath.
The ceremony is held to honor the life of Heydrich while the Czechs in the church are celebrating.
Their victory of killing a high-ranking Nazi official is unexplainable. As Heydrich’s burial
goes, Nazi troops forcedly gather each man in a Lidice village located outside the Prague, they
found that some families in the village have son who escapes to join the Czech resistance group.
In spite of uncertainty if the suspects who kill Heydrich are one of them, Nazi troops
still assassinate all the allege Czechs. After the massive killing to the sons of
the Lidice villagers, a recorded message is played on the speaker of a car that goes around the town
stating that anyone who has an information about the attackers but fail to disclose it
will be killed. The Lidice villagers paid for the Czech resistance attack. Children and women
are in prison, while all men get shot. Jozef and other Czech resistance soldiers hear the message,
so Jozef says that they have to surrender themselves. Karel, one of the soldiers,
says that the Nazi will kill all of them. After the conversation in the Church, Karel
goes to the Nazi and disclose the information about their group. Immediately, the Nazi troops
go to Anna and Marie’s house and they are able to locate their main hideout in the church.
When they arrive in the church, the first batch of the troops go inside.
Pitch-black darkness welcomes them, only the lights of the candles from the alter can be seen.
As they step inside, Jozef, Jan and other Czechs are scattered around the ministry while holding
their firing weapon. Before the troops go further, the Czech starts to shoot them tremendously.
When they kill the first batch, another batch comes in.
The Czech positions themselves in the altar as they point their weapons at the front door.
As the door finally opens for the second batch of troops, loud fires of weapons
kill person on both sides. One of the troops fires an explosion and kills another Czech,
leaving Jozef and Jan alive. The cousins escape and go below their hideout.
The troops collected the dead bodies of the Czech and find that the two are missing. When
they see a hole in the church, they place a big hose inside it and drain the church with water.
In order to escape, the cousins plan to go under the street by digging on a wall using a sewer.
As they try to dig, the water rushes like a flood, rising for about six feet deep.
The troops above throw an explosion and the cousins successfully avoid each.
Jozef continues to dig but Jan interrupts him with helplessness in his voice.
They know that the water is rising too fast and it’s impossible to dig a wall in minutes. When
they both realize that there is no way to escape, Jan and Jozef each holds a firing weapon, pointed
it to their heads, and take their lives away. The movie ends in a scene where Jan and Jozef
met in Poland and ride a farm truck on their way to Krakow to join the Free Army.