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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 | Josef Abrhám | Sylva Tománková | Jan Semotán | Jitka Asterová | Jiří Ornest | Jan Kačani | Pavel Janoušek | Saša Rašilov | Zdeněk Vencl | Václav Chalupa | Václav Jakoubek | Josef Oplt | Václav Koubek | Radek Holub | Radek Smejkal | Anna Kreuzmannová | Raoul Schránil | Petr Braťka | Dominik Prouza | Jan Halas | Zuzana Michnová | Petra Špalková | Linda Rybová | Ivan Hlas | Jan Kalousek | Anna Geislerová | Kateřina Buriánková | Leona Machálková | Josef Pilař | Jan Potměšil | Milan Dědek