aspect but the "surprisingly elaborate" flying scenes helped make the film less of a "capable but uninspired yarn", not very different from other World War II features. Peter Bradshaw's review in The Guardian echoed a similar view, "A by-the-numbers WW2 romantic tale of two Czech pilots in love with the same British woman, which plays like a mixture of Pearl Harbor and "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris." Box office Dark Blue World was the most popular Czech film of the year with admissions of 1 million. It was released in the United States on December 28, 2001, and grossed $258,771. The film grossed $2,300,000 worldwide. Awards and honours Dark Blue World was a major winner at the 2002 Czech Lion Awards with Box Office Award, Critics' Award Jan Svěrák for Best Director, Vladimír Smutný for Best Cinematography, Ondřej Soukup for Best Music and Alois Fišárek for Best Editing. The film was also nominated for Best Film, Ondřej Vetchý for Best Actor, Kryštof Hádek for Best Supporting Actor, Linda Rybová for Best Supporting Actress, Zbyněk Mikulík for Best Sound, Věra Mirová for Best Costumes and Jan Vlasák for Best Art Direction. Dark Blue World also won the 2001 National Board Review award for Best Foreign Film and the 2002 Love is Folly International Film Festival (Bulgaria), Golden Aphrodite Award (Best Film) for Jan Svěrák. Ondřej Vetchý was also nominated for the Audience Award (Best Actor) in the 2001 European Film Awards. See also František Fajtl Nebeští jezdci aka Sky Riders References Citations Bibliography External links 2001 films 2000s war drama films English-language Czech films Czech action films 2000s Czech-language films 2000s English-language films 2000s German-language films Slovak-language films Battle of Britain films Films directed by Jan Svěrák Czech war drama films Czech resistance to Nazi occupation in film Czech Lion Awards winners (films) Films with screenplays by Zdeněk Svěrák 2001 drama films Czech World War II films British World War II films Czech action war films 2001 multilingual films Czech multilingual films 2000s British films German-language Czech films Czech aviation films British aviation films