Tmavodmodry Svet, or Dark Blue World, as the Czech press have repeatedly pointed out over the past few weeks, is the most expensive Czech film ever made, with a total budget of roughly seven million US dollars. The film follows a group of Czech pilots who have escaped from the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and enlist in the RAF to fight against Nazi Germany. The film mixes both Czech and English actors, and English and Czech dialogue, with the two main characters both falling in love with their English teacher.
Tomas Baldinsky, the editor in chief of Premiere Magazine, feels this is the best Czech movie ever produced: