Fails the Bechdel test
Anthropoid
2016. Directed by Sean Ellis, written by Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
4 women characters. 2 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
Women do talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
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 Czechia whose reign of terror prompted self-exiled Czech soldiers (played by Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.
- Released
- 09 Sep 2016
- Genres
- Action, Drama, History
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.2 / 10
- Metascore
- 59 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 16 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Josef 149 lines, man
- Jan 138 lines, man
- Uncle Hajsky 50 lines, man
- Ladislav 48 lines, man
- Mrs Moravec 29 lines, woman
- Marie 25 lines, woman
- Lenka 20 lines, woman
- Opalka 19 lines, man
- Dr Eduard 17 lines, man
- Antonin 10 lines, man
Full cast, 28 people
- Jamie Dornan as Jan Kubiš
- Cillian Murphy as Josef Gabčík
- Charlotte Le Bon as Marie Kovárníková
- Anna Geislerová as Lenka Fafková
- Harry Lloyd as Adolf Opálka
- Toby Jones as Jan Zelenka
- Alena Mihulová as Mrs. Moravec
- Marcin Dorociński as Ladislav Vanék
- Bill Milner as Ata Moravec
- Sam Keeley as Josef Bublík
- Jiří Šimek as Karel Curda
- Mish Boyko as Jan Hrubý
- Václav Neužil as Josef Vaclík
- Andrej Polák as Jaroslav Svarc
- Sean Mahon as Dr. Eduard
- Detlef Bothe as Reinhard Heydrich
- Jan Hájek as Bretislav Bauman
- Jan Budař as Josef Chalupský
- Pavel Řezníček as Mr. Moravec
- Alexander von der Groeben as Hans Muller
- Hana Frejková as Mrs. Lukesová
- Roman Zach as Father Petrek
- Brian Caspe as Antonín
- Karel Heřmánek as Ignac
- David Bredin as Klein
- Patrick Kalupa as Pannwitz
- Nicolai Borger
- Martin Hofmann
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 164
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 17 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 8 |
| 13 to 16 | 8 | 7 |
| 17 to 20 | 0 | 29 |
| 21 to 24 | 0 | 61 |
| 25 to 28 | 26 | 31 |
| 29 to 32 | 10 | 25 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 25 |
| 37 to 40 | 2 | 19 |
| 41 to 44 | 2 | 3 |
| 45 to 48 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 to 52 | 9 | 11 |
| 53 to 56 | 9 | 33 |
| 57 to 60 | 0 | 33 |
| 61 to 64 | 0 | 14 |
| 65 to 68 | 0 | 41 |
| 69 to 72 | 2 | 12 |
| 73 to 76 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 to 80 | 3 | 23 |
| 81 to 84 | 2 | 1 |
| 85 to 88 | 1 | 6 |
| 89 to 92 | 0 | 8 |
| 93 to 96 | 0 | 11 |
| 97 to 100 | 0 | 11 |
| 101 to 104 | 4 | 12 |
| 105 to 108 | 0 | 0 |
| 109 to 112 | 0 | 5 |
| 113 to 116 | 0 | 0 |
| 117 to 120 | 0 | 0 |
| 121 to 124 | 4 | 0 |
| 125 to 128 | 0 | 5 |
| 129 to 132 | 0 | 6 |
| 133 to 136 | 0 | 12 |
| 137 to 140 | 0 | 3 |
| 141 to 144 | 0 | 14 |
| 145 to 148 | 0 | 1 |
| 149 to 152 | 0 | 7 |
| 153 to 156 | 0 | 9 |
| 157 to 160 | 0 | 1 |
| 161 to 164 | 0 | 0 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 14 are women's.
82 lines from women, 511 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
4 women and 24 men in the cast. 2 women and 16 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 33 of 613.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 106 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 15% of the words (1,136), men 85% (6,403). Women have 14% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.
Exhibit D: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
3
Two men
56
Exhibit E: behind the camera
1 of the 13 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 29% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Sean Ellis (man)
- Written by
- Sean Ellis (man), Anthony Frewin (man)
- Produced by
- Sean Ellis (man), Mickey Liddell (man), Pete Shilaimon (man)
- Shot by
- Sean Ellis (man)
- Edited by
- Richard Mettler (gender not listed)
- Music by
- Robin Foster (man)
- Production design by
- Morgan Kennedy (man)
- Costumes by
- Josef Čechota (man)
- Cast by
- Des Hamilton (man), Kateřina Oujezdská (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
5 women, 7 men, 1 not listed
-
Sound
2 women, 7 men, 4 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Art
0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 3 men, 1 not listed
-
Visual Effects
0 women, 0 men, 2 not listed
-
Writing
0 women, 2 men
-
Other crew
0 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 40 on average. Men: 35 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Charlotte Le Bon 29, Anna Geislerová 40, Alena Mihulová 51
Men
Bill Milner 21, Sam Keeley 25, Harry Lloyd 32, Jamie Dornan 34, Cillian Murphy 40, Marcin Dorociński 43, Toby Jones 49
Exhibit G: the money
What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.
- Budget
- Not listed
- Box office
- $4.6 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 164 scenes and 613 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
