Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Czech
- Country
- France, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Czech — subtitles on.
The story
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.
- czech
- world war ii
- pilot
- romance
- aviation
- aerial combat
- 1940s
- battle of britain
The bill
Ondřej Vetchý
František Sláma
Kryštof Hádek
Karel Vojtíšek
Tara Fitzgerald
Susan Whitmore
Oldřich Kaiser
Jan Machatý
- Linda Rybová — Hanička Pecharová
- David Novotný — Bedřich Mrtvý
- Charles Dance — Wing Commander Bentley
- Jaromír Dulava — Railwayman Kaňka
- Lukáš Kantor — Tamtam
- Juraj Bernáth — Jan Gregora
- Miroslav Táborský — Vilda Houf
- Hans-Jörg Assmann — Doctor Blaschke
- Anna Massey — English Teacher
- Thure Riefenstein — German Officer Hesse
- Viktor Preiss — Major Skokan
- Directed
- Jan Svěrák
- Written
- Zdeněk Svěrák
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 94 ratings
- Studio
- Portobello Pictures, Helkon Media, Fandango, Biograf Jan Svěrák, Česká televize, Phoenix Film Investments
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