this be a brilliant and lavish czech film from the sverak father and son team and all about two czech pilot who flee to england to help the raf in the battle of britain but who also fall out over a woman ( the beautiful tara fitzgerald ) . feature some excellent and incredibly realistic aerial combat scene probably the best ever and much good than pearl harbour or even the film battle of britain and a number of interest general theme such a love and war and romance and comradeship and loss and servitude . also and the trial and tribulation of move abroad and learn a foreign language ( though make easier here with the great stalwart anna massey ) . the film have some great little motif such a the world famous raf bullseye device and show throughout and at one point nicely reflect in the black vinyl record and spin around cutely ( music be another theme of the film and of course ) . plus and all of the traditional icon of english life represent dimple beer glass ( unlike the post war straight glass use in pearl harbour ) and tea in a nice china tea set in an english country garden ( though shot in the czech republic . ) and the mascot dog and a vintage bottle of hp sauce and even a dart board . of course and the airfield and surround countryside be ridiculously unlike anywhere in the south of england and though the virtuouso aerial sequence make up for this and show eastbourne and the seven sister and always synonomous with southern england and the battle of britain . but best of all be the sensational musical score from ondrej soukup and as good a anything from han zimmer yet all in the tradition of the late and excellent ron goodwin who score the original battle of britain film amongst other classic english war film . there even a nice little cameo role for the apparently famous czech musician and actor ( and kevin kline lookalike ) oldrich kaiser and who play on the piano the title theme song and dark blue sky . excellent . it get a few smutty yet funny little freudian device too and such a always show an inflated condom floating by the ceiling whenever karel ( the callow but brilliant krystof hadek ) be stick at the airfield while his love rival and fellow pilot frantisek ( ondrej vetchy ) be with susan . another great english actor in this film . charles dance be of course fine a wing commander bentley . highly recommended and well worth watch or hire get the dvd with special feature ( stuff like how they create the dog fight and stuff ) . probably the only film ever to combine subtitle with character speak english and german and french and czech all at once .