Of all those in Hitler’s “inner circle” Heydrich was an absolute monster. I believe he instigated the Final Solution programme of mass murdering Jews and other ethnic groups. Hitler described him as the “man with an iron heart”. The only note of satisfaction about this repulsive man was his death. After being ambushed by two members of the Czech resistance he received wounds to his abdomen from grenade shrapnel and died some days later in agony from the infection caused.
An absolute classic. A selection of top British character actors whose credits go from Shameless to Doc Martin via Downton Abbey as the Nazi bureacrats who oversaw the Final Solution. The banality of evil fully exposed.
It's a brilliant, essential watch. I think on the whole, actors make too big a deal of how difficult playing a role is but in this case I imagine it must have been a heavy, sober and difficult task to portray these calm monsters discussing mass murder and genocide as if they were deciding who's going out to get the sandwiches.