The Violator - DVD

A powerful and thrilling story about a Czech flying ace and his comrades.

For military pilots in socialist Czechoslovakia, life was filled with exhilarating moments of freedom in the clouds and lifelong friendships, but it was largely marred by the surveillance of the State Security and its informers.

Four friends and their flight mentor fly and serve together in the army for twenty years. But then, after a long time, the death of a former RAF pilot during an attempt to fly to the West begins to unravel, and the main character has no choice but to try and follow in his footsteps.

“You are an intruder, follow me,” are the words he often radios himself when forcing aircraft attempting to fly west to freedom to land. Now, he must attempt the same desperate escape.