​80 Years of VE Day: Czechoslovak RAF Pilots on Screen and in Real Life

20.03.2025 / 11:44 | Aktualizováno: 20.03.2025 / 12:47

Please join us on Thursday 24 April 2025 at 5:30 p. m. at the Central Library on St Peter’s Square in Manchester for a film screening of Dark Blue World, a 2001 film by Czech director Jan Svěrák, the Academy Award-winning director of Kolya, about Czech pilots who fought for the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War. The film screening will be followed by an informal talk with Jitka Režná, daughter of General František Fajtl, one of the Czech RAF pilots who fought in WW2 and inspired creators of the film.