Big Beat

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1967   >   Musical comedy

A comedy of errors about the crazy big-beat fashion among the Polish youth in the sixties.

Dancing performance by the ballet team of the Poznań opera, spectacularly arranged against the scenery of the Warsaw Old Town.

A great film for big-beat lovers, featuring two legendary bands: Skaldowie and Niebiesko-Czarni that perform songs from their repertoire but also, above all, songs composed especially for the film.

Pretty Lola, who mistakes the bridegroom-to-be with her unfaithful boyfriend, a big-beat guitarist Johnyy Tomala, interrupts Kuba and Majka’s marriage ceremony. Striving to prove his innocence to his fiancée Kuba, persuaded by a friend, pretends to be Tomala and, unexpectedly, becomes successful at a young talent competition. He achieves his goal only partially, though. Majka believes his story, however she also becomes interested in his fake identity. The desperate character dumps both the unwanted career and his fiancée to get back his own life and establish a relationship with Lola, who loves him for who he really is.


Crew:

director
Jerzy Passendorfer
script
Ludwik Starski
d.o.p.
Kazimierz Konrad
designer
Anatol Radzinowicz
editor
Jadwiga Zajiček
music
Andrzej Zieliński, Jerzy Milian
cast
Jerzy Turek, Magdalena Zawadzka,
Irena Szczurowska, Wieńczysław Gliński,
Wiesław Michnikowski, Maria Chmurkowska
Materials: SD
Length: 78’

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