Movie about Czeck pilots who leave their country after the Germans invade and join the RAF to fight the Germans. Good WW2 movie--reminds me of the movie The Battle of Britain (imdb) in many respects.
[And no wonder, according to the wiki entry, "Dogfight footage from the 1969 film Battle of Britain was seamlessly integrated with contemporary film footage using computer imagery and mastering to create the aerial sequences."]
There is some fornication, but what war movie these days doesn't feature fornication in it? Soldiers are prone to that sort of thing, it seems. At least in this movie it isn't that explicit. The big conflict? Can love for the same woman destroy a friendship?
The filmmakers wanted to show heroes who were also real men; I don't know if the suffering of the pilots at the hands of the Communists after the war has been addressed by the Czech government, or if they have been commemorated in some way, but surely it is right to do so.
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Perhaps Seraphic Single would enjoy this movie.
Trailer:
Another trailer (I think this might be the Czech trailer, which is on the DVD as one of the extras.)
Czech squadrons
Ministry of Defence | Defence News | Czech veterans pay tribute to ...
TheHistoryNet | Aces | World War II: Interview with Czech Ace Frantisek Perina
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Hmm. "Made them". Well, I guess the non-German Czechs would have had to have been "made." And since they kicked out all the German Czechs in 45/46 (ethnic cleansing) only Czech Czechs are left (plus immigrant Turks, etc.)to tell their war stories.
Looks interesting, although I hate it when an otherwise good war movie has a romantic subplot. Such was the downfall of "Flyboys" and "Pearl Harbor". There wasn't a romance in "The Blue Max" per se; it was sheer intrigue/nastiness which suited the flawed characters of the anti-hero and his rival.
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