Big Beat

Big Beat
Šakalí léta

Czech Republic / 1993 / 94 min
Fiction

Big Beat
Šakalí léta

Czech Republic / 1993 / 94 min
Fiction

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.

Cast / Jiří Ornest , Jitka Asterová , Jakub Špalek , Jan Semotán , Sylva Tománková , Jan Kačani , Josef Abrhám , Martin Dejdar    Writer / Petr Jarchovský , Jan Hřebejk    Story / Petr Jarchovský , Jan Hřebejk , Petr Šabach , Ivan Hlas    DoP / Jan Malíř    Editor / Jan Mattlach    Sound / Marek Hart    Music / Ivan Hlas

Release date / 09 December 1993

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