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Tmavomodrý svet (2001) -- The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.

Overview

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Director:
Jan Sverák
Writers:
Zdenek Sverák (story) and
Zdenek Sverák (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
17 May 2001 (Czech Republic) more
Genre:
War | Drama | Action | Romance more
Plot:
The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
7 wins & 8 nominations more
User Comments:
History you never find in books more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Ondrej Vetchý ... Frantisek Sláma
Krystof Hádek ... Karel Vojtisek
Tara Fitzgerald ... Susan Whitmore

Charles Dance ... Wing Commander Bentley
Oldrich Kaiser ... Jan Machatý
David Novotný ... Bedrich Mrtvý
Linda Rybová ... Hanicka Pecharova
Jaromír Dulava ... Railwayman Kanka
Lukás Kantor ... Tom Tom
Radim Fiala ... Jura Sysel
Juraj Bernáth ... Jan Gregora
Miroslav Táborský ... Vilha Houf
Hans-Jörg Assmann ... Doctor Blaschke

Thure Riefenstein ... German Officer Hesse
Anna Massey ... English Teacher
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dark Blue World (International: English title)
Leidenschaft in dunklen Tagen (Germany) (TV title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for sexuality/nudity.
Runtime:
112 min
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital EX
Filming Locations:
Czech Republic more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The cost of renting the British Spitfires used in the film was $10,000 an hour. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Slama picks up Vojtisek at crash landing site an they both head to England over the channel. These two sequences are shot with a different aircraft. more
Quotes:
[after a failed operation]
Franti?ek Sláma: We lost one plane.
[a Spitfire explodes on the airport in the background]
Commander Bentley: Two planes.
Franti?ek Sláma: We were ambushed by Messerschmitts.
Commander Bentley: Caught you by surprise, didn't they. This is an air war, Sir! What did you expect to find there, flies?
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Movie Connections:
Edited from Battle of Britain (1969) more
Soundtrack:
Pochod karnevalu umelecké besedy more

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45 out of 49 people found the following comment useful:-
History you never find in books, 5 December 2004
Author: JerryP-2 from Papillion NE

In addition to being a drama, this film gives a rather nice account of the Czech struggle against both Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. Having read "The Big Show" by Pierre Clostermann, and having had an Polish acquaintance who escaped Poland after the Nazi onslaught and made it to England, I found the main story line to be reasonably in line historical fact. Thanks to a combination of computer imagery and some surviving Spitfires of the era, the flying scenes are very convincing. The detail in the Spitfire attack on the German train is consistent with real life events of the time.

The dramatic aspects of the story are entirely believable also. Lonely men far from home and facing death on a daily basis behave very much like the characters in this story. The turns of events also reflect a very believable story line. The directors do a creditable job of blending three different time periods so that there is enough continuity to make the drama of this story manageable.

This film held my interest from the start for several reasons: I'm a retired military flier; I'm a student of history, especially the history of WWII; I'm way past being tired of the trashy Hollywood versions of world events. This film is a top notch product in every respect.

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