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Dark Blue World
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Ondrej Vetchý | ... |
Frantisek Sláma
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Krystof Hádek | ... |
Karel Vojtisek
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Susan Whitmore
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Wing Commander Bentley
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Oldrich Kaiser | ... |
Jan Machatý
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David Novotný | ... |
Bedrich Mrtvý
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Linda Rybová | ... |
Hanicka Pecharova
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Jaromír Dulava | ... |
Railwayman Kanka
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Lukás Kantor | ... |
Tom Tom
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Radim Fiala | ... |
Jura Sysel
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Juraj Bernáth | ... |
Jan Gregora
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Miroslav Táborský | ... |
Vilha Houf
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Hans-Jörg Assmann | ... |
Doctor Blaschke
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German Officer Hesse
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English Teacher
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March 15, 1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Czech pilots flee to England, joining the RAF. After the war, back home, they are put in labor camps, suspected of anti-Communist ideas. This film cuts between a post-war camp where Franta is a prisoner and England during the war, where Franta is like a big brother to Karel, a very young pilot. On maneuvers, Karel crash lands by the rural home of Susan, an English woman whose husband is MIA. She spends one night with Karel, and he thinks he's found the love of his life. It's complicated by Susan's attraction to Franta. How will the three handle innocence, Eros, friendship, and the heat of battle? When war ends, what then? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Release Date:
17 May 2001 (Czech Republic) See more »Also Known As:
Dark Blue World See more »Box Office
Budget:
$5,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$10,634 (USA) (4 January 2002)Gross:
$258,215 (USA) (31 May 2002)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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The most expensive Czech movie so far. The most expensive scene from total budget of 8 milion USD is where British Spitfire attacks German train. It cost more than the whole Oscar-winning Sverak's movie Kolya (Kolja). See more »Goofs
The Czech RAF sergeants are often saluted and addressed as "sir". See more »Quotes
Prison Warden: This is a liquidation camp! You're educated, so you know what it means. That cart over there is called Amnesty, and it goes to the cemetery and back. There will be no other amnesty for you!See more »
In addition to being a drama, this film gives a rather nice account of the Czech struggle against both Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. Having read "The Big Show" by Pierre Clostermann, and having had an Polish acquaintance who escaped Poland after the Nazi onslaught and made it to England, I found the main story line to be reasonably in line historical fact. Thanks to a combination of computer imagery and some surviving Spitfires of the era, the flying scenes are very convincing. The detail in the Spitfire attack on the German train is consistent with real life events of the time.
The dramatic aspects of the story are entirely believable also. Lonely men far from home and facing death on a daily basis behave very much like the characters in this story. The turns of events also reflect a very believable story line. The directors do a creditable job of blending three different time periods so that there is enough continuity to make the drama of this story manageable.
This film held my interest from the start for several reasons: I'm a retired military flier; I'm a student of history, especially the history of WWII; I'm way past being tired of the trashy Hollywood versions of world events. This film is a top notch product in every respect.