''High Blue Wall'' ( cs, Vysoká modrá zeď) is a 1974 Czechoslovak action drama film directed by Vladimír Čech.
It is inspired by
Air battle over Merklín
The Air battle over Merklín was an air-to-air engagement between Czechoslovak and USAFE air units over the Czech village of Merklín, in the Bohemian Forest, on 10 March 1953. During the action Czech pilot Jaroslav Šrámek, flying a MiG-15 (f ...
.
It is first Czech film that used
70 mm technology.
The film is sometimes called 1970s Czech
Top Gun
''Top Gun'' is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Tony Scott, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., and was inspired by an a ...
.
it wasn't very successful with audiences and gained negative reception.
Cast
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Martin Růžek
Martin Růžek, born Erhard Martin (23 September 1918 – 18 December 1995) was a Czech actor. He starred in the film ''Poslední propadne peklu'' under director Ludvík Ráža in 1982.
Personal life
Růžek was born on 23 September 1918 in Če ...
as General Dvořák
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Jiří Bednář as Capt. Jelínek
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Jiří Němeček Jiří (; ''YI-RZHEE''), the Czech is a masculine given name, equivalent to English George, may refer to:
Given name
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*Jiří Antonín Benda
*Jiří Baborovský
*Jiří Barta
*Jiří Bartoška
* Jiří Bicek
* Jiří Bobok
*Jiří Bubla
*Jiří ...
as Colonel Šmíd
* Josef Langmiler as Major Josef Švestka
* Josef Chvalina as Major Pekař
* Gustav Heverle as Major Pecka
* Vanda Švarcová as Secretary Libuška
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Jiří Krampol
Jiří Krampol (born 11 July 1938) is a Czech film and theatre actor.
Krampol was born in Buštěhrad, Kladno District. He graduated at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1962.
He acted in Czech theatre Semafor ...
as Lieutenant Zdeněk Netopil
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Ladislav Trojan as Lieutenant Vašíček
References
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1974 films
1974 drama films
Czech action drama films
Films about the Czechoslovak Army
1970s Czech films
Czech aviation films
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