Dark Blue World

Name: Dark Blue World
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Released: December 28, 2001
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Krystof Hádek, Ondrej Vetchý

2001

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 28, 2001 | TV-MA

Starring: Krystof Hádek, Ondrej Vetchý

Summary: An epic romantic drama about two Czech pilots, serving together in the U.K.'s Royal Air Force during World War II, who fall in love with the same woman.

Director: Jan Sverák

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Romance, War

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 112 min

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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.

Derek Elley

Sverak's sheer technical finesse, and ability to spin on a dime between comedy and tragedy, the personal and the historical, makes Dark Blue World succeed where other similarly themed movies, from "Battle of Britain" to "The Blue Max," seem heavy-handed by comparison. Read full review

Marta Barber

Dark Blue World's warm story and beautiful photography almost hits the mark, and it has a great ending. Read full review

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. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

As it stands, Dark Blue World -- for all the considerable skills of the Sveraks and their colleagues on both sides of the camera -- occupies that treacherous territory between art film and popular epic. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

The aerial-dogfight scenes, which are beautiful and shot through with jittery panic, are notable for not being staged for videogame kicks. Read full review

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

The uneasy meeting of cultures is mirrored all too well in the stiff and clumsy direction. Read full review

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DavidN.

Oct 30, 2005

This film is not about the big battle. It is about a fantastically written story, that opens a very interesting era from our history. It shows what communists did... I must admit, that the real meaning of this film could understand just someone from the Czech rep. ... but also the others This film is not about the big battle. It is about a fantastically written story, that opens a very interesting era from our history. It shows what communists did... I must admit, that the real meaning of this film could understand just someone from the Czech rep. ... but also the others should see the atmosphere of our national proud, mostly before the WWII.… Expand