Big Beat

Big Beat

1993•1h 50m•5.3/10

ComedyMusic

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.3/10(9)

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.

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Production

ČNTS – TV Nova, Space Films

Language

CS

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Jakub Špalek

Jakub Špalek

Eda Drábek

Martin Dejdar

Martin Dejdar

Bejby

Josef Abrhám

Josef Abrhám

Prokop

Sylva Tománková

Bejbina

Jan Semotán

Jan Semotán

Kšanda

Jitka Asterová

Jitka Asterová

Milada

Jiří Ornest

Jiří Ornest

Přemek

Jan Kačani

Reddy

Pavel Janoušek

Neumann

Saša Rašilov

Saša Rašilov

Peterka

Zdeněk Vencl

Zdeněk Vencl

Babka

Václav Chalupa

Václav Chalupa

Hamáček

Václav Jakoubek

Václav Jakoubek

Petykoluna

Josef Oplt

Singer

Václav Koubek

Eda's Brother

Radek Holub

Radek Holub

Other Pack Leader

Radek Smejkal

Other Pack Leader's Adjutant

Anna Kreuzmannová

Aunt Juřičková

Raoul Schránil

Raoul Schránil

Kaláb

Petr Braťka

Marína

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