Riders in the Sky

Riders in the Sky (1968)

Nebeští jezdci

The story of Czech pilots in RAF service during the Battle of Britain, and the ongoing aerial battle in Northern Europe. It tells the story of the crews of the RAF’s No. 311 Squadron, which was mainly crewed by escaped Czech airmen, and their bombing raids during the Second World War.

Date of release
1968-12-20
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
War
Director
Jindřich Polák

Casting

Interesting facts

Riders of the Sky is a Czechoslovak movie directed by Jindřich Polák in 1968 about Czechoslovak pilots in No. 311 Squadron RAF service during the Battle of Britain, and the ongoing aerial battle in northern Europe.

Production

The movie is based on the 1964 novel Nebeští jezdci by Czech World War II RAF and Soviet Air Force air gunner Richard Husmann, writing as Filip Jánský. Part of the inspiration for the novel was the story of František "Frankie" Truhlář, No. 311 Squadron RAF gunner and later No. 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF pilot, and a member of Guinea Pig Club. In 1969 Hodder & Stoughton published an English translation of the book as Riders in the Sky.

It was filmed at Klecany military airfield north of Prague, English park at Dobříš Chateau, Prague hospital U Apolináře and Rügen island in Germany.

Some of the aerial shots were from a 1941 documentary film Target for Tonight.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended