Big Beat

The account is set at the end of the nineteen fifties. The place is a quiet quarter of Prague. The habits of the neighbourhood are long settled. People there grew up listening to swing. One day someone new arrives. The young man is called Baby. He brings rock and roll with him. The music finds an answer in the neighbourhood. The young take to it at once. Their elders are unsettled by it. The authorities of the period do not look kindly on it. So a contest between the generations begins. Jakub Špalek and Martin Dejdar take the leads, with Josef Abrhám also in the cast, in Jan Hřebejk’s Czech film of 1993.