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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Hans-Jörg Assmann, Charles Dance, Krystof Hádek, Linda Rybová, Oldřich Kaiser, David Novotný, Ondřej Vetchý, Tara Fitzgerald

Categories: Movies, War Film, Buddy Film, Drama Film, Action, World Cinema

Dark Blue World (Czech: Tmavomodrý svět) is a 2001 film by Czech director Jan Svěrák about Czechoslovak pilots who fought for the British Royal Air Force during World War II. The screenplay was written by Zdeněk Svěrák, the father of the director. The film stars Ondřej Vetchý as František (Franta) Sláma, Kryštof Hádek as Karel Vojtíšek and Tara FitzGerald as Susan. There is also an appearance from Charles Dance and Anna Massey. About one third of the film takes place in 1950, after the war, when the returning Czechoslovak pilots were imprisoned by the new communist... MORE

Dark Blue World (Czech: Tmavomodrý svět) is a 2001 film by Czech director Jan Svěrák about Czechoslovak pilots who fought for the British Royal Air Force during World War II. The screenplay was written by Zdeněk Svěrák, the father of the director. The film stars Ondřej Vetchý as František (Franta) Sláma, Kryštof Hádek as Karel Vojtíšek and Tara FitzGerald as Susan. There is also an appearance from Charles Dance and Anna Massey. About one third of the film takes place in 1950, after the war, when the returning Czechoslovak pilots were imprisoned by the new communist government for colluding with the capitalists. Most of these scenes are the interactions between Franta Sláma, and his fellow inmates in the prison hospital (an ex-SS doctor and a convicted burglar). The film switches back between the war and the prison. The first scene in the film is in the workshop of the prison. Sláma is at a sewing machine when he collapses and is taken to the hospital. The film proper begins in 1939, just days prior to the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. After the invasion, the Czechoslovakian military is disbanded and the Czechoslovaks have to give up their aircraft. However, Franta and the LESS