Product Description

Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ),Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ),English ( Subtitles ),WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access,SYNOPSIS: It's 1950 and the height of the Cold War in Communist-ruled, post-war Czechoslovakia. Ex-RAF Czech pilot Franta Slama - a man in his early forties - is confined to a labour camp as an "enemy of the people", because he had flown for the RAF during WWII. The new totalitarian Communist regime deemed him contaminated by the Western ideals of democracy and freedom and as such a potential threat to the State. Flashing back to 1939, just before world peace is irredeemably shattered. Franta congratulates his protege, fresh faced young trainee pilot Karel Vojtisek, for passing his flying test. Soon afterwards, Franta and Karel escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and reach England, where they join the RAF. Both men fall in love with the same woman, Susan. For Karel, Susan was his first love. But for both men, Susan will push their friendship to the limit.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48460 in DVD
• Formats: Import, PAL, Widescreen
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Features

• THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER

Customer Reviews

Pilger's keen eye for inconvenient truth
I found Pilger's documentary convincing and challenging. It would be a useful documentary for a high school teacher of history or politics to create a lively debate. Has US intervention in South America been altruistic or self serving? If self serving - at what price to the local populations of South America? Did the USA destroy fledging democracies in South America and aid in the installation of criminal dictatorships to serve its own interests and at the cost of thousands of lives? Even if you dont believe everything the film asserts it certainly makes you think beyond superficial propaganda. Full marks to Pilger for this brave attempt to awaken the political conscience of the world.

Traditional Pro-monarchist Story
This is a next doco by John Pilger talentedly telling of modern exploitation of Latin America by mixing Gen. A. Pinochet's military coup with recent Venezuela's affairs while traditionally-for-his-works blaming the USA for all the evil round this region in this case.

One could suggest, perhaps, Sydney-born London-based journalist's energy could more sufficiently be deployed for dismantling a neo-racist "multiculturalism" reality of his birth country or/and steadily world-resource-consuming aggressiveness of his historical motherland he flourishing in by supposedly fighting for freedoms and democracy in distant foreign lands mostly, among which the sovereign US are traditional target for loyal monarchists of a N. America's former official master.