Somewhere in
the middle of director Jan Sverák's film, Dark Blue World (Tmavomodrý
svet) in the middle of a labor camp in post-World War Two
Czechoslovakia, a former SS doctor who is now working for the
Communists attending to sick inmates, states cynically (but
truthfully) that there's not much difference between the two
ideologies. This was not supposed to be the way things should have
turned out; these inmates were former war heroes, trained pilots who
fled from Czechoslovakia one step ahead of the Nazi invasion and
fought as Czech patriots as part of the Royal Air Force. After the
war, they were thrown into camps by the Communist government, which
was afraid of the possibility that their prestige might persuade
others to rebel against authority.
Starring:
Ondrej Vetchý
Krystof Hádek
Tara Fitzgerald
Charles Dance
Oldrich Kaiser
Linda Rybová
David Novotny
Lukás Kantor
Hans-Jörg Assmann
Radim Fiala
Miroslav Táborský
Thure Riefenstein
Anna Massey
Written
by:
Zdenek Sverák
Rated:
R - Restricted.
Under 17 requires
acompanying parent
or adult guardian.
Review by Carrie Gorringe · Nitrate Online
