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Dark Blue World (2001)
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Reviews Counted:58
Fresh:36
Rotten:22
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: While it's better than Pearl Harbor, Dark Blue World still spends too much time on a trite love triangle.
Theatrical Release:Dec 28, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: In 1939, as Hitler and Germany ran roughshod over Eastern Europe, many people escaped, including Czech pilots who joined up with the British Royal Air Force to fight the Nazis. Jan Sverák's moving... In 1939, as Hitler and Germany ran roughshod over Eastern Europe, many people escaped, including Czech pilots who joined up with the British Royal Air Force to fight the Nazis. Jan Sverák's moving war drama, DARK BLUE WORLD, details the story of one such group of Czech pilots who are at first laughed at by their British superiors until they prove themselves in the air. Ondrej Vetchy stars as Franta Sláma, the father figure to this motley group of men who desperately want to win back their country. Krystof Hádek plays Karel Vojtísek, Franta's young daredevil protegee who falls in love with an older British woman, Susan (Tara Fitzgerald), whose soldier husband is missing in action. When Franta and Susan grow close, everything threatens to erupt. Sverák, whose previous film was the Oscar-winning KOLYA, has crafted a beautiful film filled with believable, complex relationships, well-drawn characters, and plenty of finely choreographed air-battle scenes between the young, headstrong Czechs and the perfectly organized Nazis. The acting is excellent, especially the love triangle of Hádek, Vetchy, and Fitzgerald, and terrific support is provided by Oldrich Kaiser as Machaty, the piano-playing Gable look-alike. The film's politics are based on real events; when the Czech pilots who flew for the RAF returned home, they were treated as the enemy, not as heroes, and Sverák intercuts harrowing scenes from 1950 in which the pilots who survived the war are subject to jail and torture in their own land. [More]
Starring: Ondrez Vetchy, Krystof Hadek, Tara Fitzgerald, Oldrich Kaiser
Starring: Ondrez Vetchy, Krystof Hadek, Tara Fitzgerald, Oldrich Kaiser, Charles Dance, Hans Assmann, Linda Rybová, David Novotny
Director: Jan Sverak
Director: Jan Sverak
Screenwriter: Zdenek Sverak
Producer: Eric Abraham, Jan Sverak
Composer: Ondrej Soukup
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
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Reviews for Dark Blue World
A complex story with a number of twists, it possesses a fatalism uncommon in American films.
The love triangle seems lifted out of "Pearl Harbor", and if there's a war movie from which you don't want to take inspiration, it's that one.
Looks like the Eastern European version of director Michael Bay's popcorn epic from last summer.
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