Dark Blue World
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.
- Released
- 17 May 2001
- Directed by
- Jan Svěrák
- Starring
- Ondřej Vetchý, Kryštof Hádek, Tara Fitzgerald
- With
- Oldřich Kaiser, Charles Dance, Linda Rybová, David Novotný, Miroslav Táborský, Thure Riefenstein, Anna Massey, Jaromír Dulava, Radim Fiala, Viktor Preiss, Jiří Lábus, Daniela Kolářová
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Filip Renč, Hans-Jörg Assmann, Jeremy Swift, Horst-Günter Marx, Anna Veselá, Martin Dostál, Michal Zelenka, Zdeněk Svěrák, Jan Svěrák, Martin Sitta, Sophie Wilcox, Petr Burian, Čestmír Řanda Jr., Lukáš Kantor, Caroline Holdaway, Zdeněk Dvořák, Juraj Bernáth, John Comer, Jeff Tyler, David Fisher, Jan Brabec, William Scott-Masson, František Vyskočil, Amy Huck, Charlotte Fairman, Jan Dvořák, John Warnaby - Studio
- Biograf Jan Svěrák
- Distributor
- Fandango, CinemArt
- Countries
- Denmark, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic
- Running time
- 112 minutes (1 hr 52 min)