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Big Beat (1993)

Big Beat (1993)

Comedy Music
Release Date: 1993, December 9
Directors: Jan Hřebejk
Countries: Czech Republic
Production: ČNTS – TV Nova, Space Films, Space Films
Cast: Václav Chalupa, Anna Geislerová, Saša Rašilov, Radek Holub, Martin Dejdar, Václav Jakoubek, Josef Abrhám, Václav Koubek, Jakub Špalek, Jan Potměšil, Zdeněk Vencl, Jiří Ornest

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.

Keywords:

musical 1950s based on short story rock 'n' roll