Anyone seen “Dark Blue World” (2001) directed by Jan Sverák?
This is a story of Czech airmen who decided to leave their fatherland after the Nazis entered Czech Republic. They joined RAF and fought Germans as members of 311th Sqn. This movie is really worth of seeing it, especially because it desribes the fate of soldiers who returned from the West to their homeland after the war. Many of them were sentenced for prison, many of them were murdered.
here’s a link
http://www.sonyclassics.com/darkblueworld/index-withflash.html
Sounds like a good film, I’ll have to see if I can rent it out. 
A fine film.
Great story,cool fights.
I have seen this movie on DVD. It’s very sad what happened to those brave men after they returned to their homeland (and there were those that didn’t make it back).
Dark Blue World (2001)
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Blue-World-Hans-Jörg-Assmann/dp/B0000648X2/sr=1-1/qid=1167550659/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-1376873-6773557?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Director Jan Sverák’s Dark Blue World embraces sentimentality with such brio it is hard to resist. The film relays the little-known WWII story of Czech fighter pilots who escaped the Nazi occupation of their country to fight in Britain’s Royal Air Force. Those who survived the battles were placed in work camps upon their return home by a then-entrenched, paranoid Communist regime. Sverák (Kolya) tacks back and forth between Franta (Ondrej Vetchy), a worldly captain in the defunct Czech Air Force, and Karel (Krystof Hádek), his earnest young recruit, as they leave home to fight the enemy on foreign soil. Only one returns to tell his story, from a prison hospital bed. While enduring life in the RAF with fellow Czech pilots, Franta and Karel manage to fall in love with the same woman, learn English, swing dance, recite poems, sing rousing Czech songs, and perform heroic feats. Dogfights in the air and inevitable losses ensue, but it is the genuine camaraderie evoked by a gifted cast of Czech actors that saves the film from effusive excess. Like a charismatic captain steeling his company before battle, Sverák can’t resist indulging romantic clichés, but his actors, in their fresh intensity, are more than up to the task set before them. --Fionn Meade
Will watch out for this one. Looks great.
looks great !!! will surely watch out for it
I have watched this movie many times. A very moving film with some great cinematography!
I never knew about this, sounds very interesting and I shall have to check it out.
Firefly, it’s a Czech movie, so be prepared for subtitles. I don’t think it will spoil your enjoyment though.
They joined RAF and fought Germans as members of 311th Sqn.
Haha, 311th was BOMBER squadron!
Something about 311th:
http://www.tady.cz/csletci/311.htm
You boys probably can’t read it but look at the pistures of “our” bombers.
Dark blue world is bad film because of stupid love story. It’s a parody of our fighters.
By the way: many of scenes are from “Battle of Britain” from 1969.