Dark Blue World Movie Review 2001

Told in flashbacks, this is an old-fashioned WWII epic about heroism and romance. In 1950 in Czechoslovakia, Franta (Vetchy) is imprisoned by the Communists who fear the war hero's previous contacts with democracy. After the Nazis invaded his country in 1939, Franta fled to England, where he joins the RAF and befriends younger Czech pilot Karel (Hadek). But the duo have a falling out over a local woman, Susan (Fizgerald), who favors the mature Franta. Czech, German, and English dialogue.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 115 minutes.
Originally from Czech, British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, Airborne, Buddies, Romantic Triangles, Great Britain, Men in Prison, Flashback, Period Piece: 1950s, Communists & Communism, Eastern Europe

Screenplay

Zdenek Sverak

Cast

Ondrej Vetchy, Tara Fitzgerald, Krystof Hadek, Oldrich Kaiser, Charles Dance, Linda Rybova, Hans-Jorg Assmann, Anna Massey

Cinematography

Vladimir Smutny

Director

Jan Sverak

Music

Ondrej Soukup

Other

Pavel Rejholec, Alois Fisarek, Vaclav Novak, Vera Mirova, Jan Vlasak

Producer

Eric Abraham, Jan Sverak, Portobello Pictures, Helkon Media AG, Phoenix Films, Fandango, Czech Television, Sony Pictures Classics