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Big Beat (1993)

Directed by Jan Hřebejk

Overview

A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the “man from nowhere” a generation gap story unfolds of changing social climate. The action is driven by the character of a young man named Baby who causes a local rebellion by bringing rock’n'roll to a Communist neighborhood raised on swing.

Length 110 minutes

Actors

Jakub Špalek | Martin Dejdar | Jan Semotán | Sylva Tománková | Jan Kačani | Josef Abrhám | Jiří Ornest | Jitka Asterová | Václav Jakoubek