"Dark Blue World"
2001
Directed by Jan Sverak

From the director of Kolya comes this film that boasts some exciting aerial footage and warm, old-fashioned sentimentality. Two Czech pilots leave their homeland when the Nazis invade and enlist in the British Royal Airforce. As the war progresses, both men have love affairs with the same woman. "Dark Blue World is Pearl Harbor without the product placements, without the Hollywood bombast, and certainly without the $100-million-plus budget...energetic, photogenic" (Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer). Starring Ondrej Vetchy (Kolya), Krystof Hadek, Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed Off) and Charles Dance (Gosford Park). English and Czech with English subtitles. 115 minutes.