Dark Blue Globe (Czech: Tmavomodrý svět) is a 2001 film by Czech director Jan Svěrák about Czechoslovakian pilots who fought for the British Royal Air Force during World War II. A screenplay was written by Zdeněk Svěrák, the father of the director.

A film stars Ondřej Vetchý as František (Franta) Sláma, Kryštof Hádek as Karel Vojtíšek and Tara Fitzgerald as Susan. There exists too an appearance from either Charles Dance.

Plot
All about 1 third of the film requires place inside 1950, after a war, whenever a giving Czechoslovak pilots were imprisoned per fresh communist government for colluding with a capitalists. Virtually all one scenes come a interactions between Sláma, & his fellow inmates in the prison hospital (an ex-SS doctor and the condemned burglar). A film switches back between a war & a prison.

A number one scene in the film is in the workshop of the prison. Slámthe is at a sewing machine when he collapses and is taken to the hospital.

A film proper begins around 1939, just times anterior to a German invasion of Czechoslovakia. Fallowing a invasion, a Czechoslovakian army is disbanded & a Czechoslovaks own to give higher their aircraft. Yet, Franta & a immature Karel, among others, refuse to submit to their occupiers, & flee to the United Kingdom to join the RAF.

Another time it arrive, a British click a Czechoslovaks to retrain from a basic principles, which infuriates the children, especially Karel, world health organization is each raring to fight the Germans & humiliated to be retaught what he already knows. Karel as well understands a required English language lessons as unpointed wastes of his period.

In time it is allowed to fly, however when their number one sortie they realise why the British were step by step training the children therefore intensely: a immature Czechoslovak nicknamed Tom Tom is shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf-109.

In the equivalent mission, Karel himself is shot down, however manages to safely crash l& and call for his way to the domestic. At this domestic he meets Susan, whom he lessens in love with (though the feeling is non reciprocal; Susan thinks Karel is far as well immature). A next day, fallowing giving to the aerodrome, Karel brings Franta to meet Susan. A latter begins for in swell by owning Susan, though Karel believes that he is however Susan's boyfriend.

The kind of love triangle develops, though it takes Karel quite occasionally period to realise that Susan has feelings for his commander, & these are does'nt until late within the film whilst he realises that it is in the relationship by using both more.

Charted the mission to France where the squadron attacks a train, Karel is shot down and Frantthe lands to rescue him, a move that shows that them's friendship endures. However presently fallowing the mission, Karel learns all about a relationship between Franta & Susan, which leads to a quarrel.

Two or three missions late, Franta's aeroplane has the malfunction & is forced to ditch into the ocean. His deliverance boat bursts when he endeavors to inflate it & Karel decides to help him by generating him his have saving boat. When attempting to drop a boat, Karel impinge on water system surface & dies. (However a boat emerges on the water supply, thus Franta is rescued.)

A moving picture stops using Franta giving to Czechoslovakia, in which he finds his girlfriend married.

Trivia

A virtually all expensive Czech moving-picture show produced, dollars and cents totalled $USD 8 million. A trawithin attack is the virtually all expensive scene in Czech cinema history, costing more than a entire film Kolya

Dogfight footage from either a 1969 film Battle of Britain was seamlessly integrated with contemporary film footage applying computer imagination & mastering to produce a aerial sequences. Brief shots from either a 1990 film Memphis Belle were also utilized.