Big Beat (movie)
Šakalí léta- User score: 5.7
- Production country: Czech Republic
- Producer: Jan Hřebejk
- Production companies: ČNTS – TV Nova, Space Films Polytechna
- Genre: Comedy, Music
- Release date: 12/9/1993
- Run time: 110 min.
Movie description
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.