Dark Blue World

aka: Tmavomodry Svet
Czech Republic / UK / Germany 2001, 115 minutes
Dir. Jan Sverak
In Czech, English with English subtitles
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / War

Topics: Aviation, Period 1940s, Period 1950s.

Feat. Krystof Hadek, Ondrej Vetchy, Charles Dance, Tara Fitzgerald

Aroview: From the dir. of KOLYA and based on the story of Czech pilots who fled the Nazis in WW2 to fly alongside the RAF, this is an unsentimental, yet romantically-depicted slice of a little-known area of wartime history.

Fashioning an old-fashioned love-triangle between Ondrej Vetchy, Krystof Hadek and Tara Fitzgerald, its journey is perhaps a little predictable, but is certainly memorable for its beautifully-shot aerial battles and faintly self-deprecating Czech humour.

NZ International Film Festival 2002