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Dark Blue World(Tmavomodrý svět)

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Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany · 2001
Rated R · 1h 52m
Director Jan Svěrák
Starring Ondřej Vetchý, Kryštof Hádek, Tara Fitzgerald, Oldřich Kaiser
Genre Action, Drama, War

Czech pilot Franta and his young protégé Karel escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to join the RAF in fighting the Germans. A friendship quickly develops between the two men. However, when they are finally sent into combat, the stress of the war and their mutual love for an English woman test their bond.

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Village Voice by Jessica Winter

Dark Blue World and Sverak's previous "Kolya" were each written by the director's father, Zdenek, and both films betray a weakness for the symmetrical and sentimental.

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New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Has some terrific aerial sequences and exciting dogfights. But the clichés in the script by Zdenek Sverak (the director's father) keep the film firmly grounded when the action's not aloft.

75

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

The film mixes unashamed kitsch, thrilling airfight scenes and dark historical drama. But what gives it a special charge is its portrait of the Czech RAF group: what happened to them before, during and after the war.

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Time by Richard Schickel

One thinks of the great opening line of that great novel The Good Soldier: "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." Like many such tales, this one is worth taking to your aching heart.

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Washington Post by Stephen Hunter

The last word you'd expect for it is "sweet," yet it is exactly the right one. That may come as no surprise to some, since the director is Jan Sverak, who brought sweetness to his breakthrough film "Koyla," but it caught me by total surprise.

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Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

Dark Blue World is "Pearl Harbor" without the product placements, without the Hollywood bombast, and certainly without the $100-million-plus budget.

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