Title:
Dark Blue World
Released: 2002
Genre: War / Drama
Runtime: 112 min
Country: Czech
Republic / UK / Germany / Denmark / Italy
Language: Czech
/ German / English / Slovak
Plot
Summary: 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?
Comments:
Hypnotic
-- What Pearl Harbor should've been. I found the movie
slightly depressing, as befits the subject matter,
but also spellbinding. Loved the air combat sequences
and the acting is top notch. Not sure the love triangle
had to be there, but what the heck--at least it was
handled with adult, not juvenile sensibilities a la
Pearl Harbor.
Cast
overview:
Ondrej Vetchý .... Frantisek Sláma
Krystof Hádek .... Karel Vojtisek
Tara Fitzgerald .... Susan
Charles Dance .... Wing Cmdr. Bentley
Oldrich Kaiser .... Machatý
David Novotny .... Bedrich Mrtvý
Linda Rybová .... Hanicka
Jaromír Dulava .... Kanka
Lukás Kantor .... Tom Tom
Radim Fiala .... Sysel
Juraj Bernáth .... Gregora
Miroslav Táborský .... Houf
Hans-Jörg Assmann .... Dr. Blaschke
Thure Riefenstein .... Oberleutnant Hesse
Anna Massey .... English Teacher
Movie
scenes preview:
Scene #1
featured
actress:
