Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 09/03/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 114 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Questionable for Children, Profanity, Watch With Your Teen
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
In 1939 Hamburg, Germany, a group of teenagers express their rebellion against Adolph Hitler's Nazi regime through their affection for American swing music, British fashion, and Harlem slang. American and British big-band jazz records are among those banned by the Fuhrer, but the young men secretly get together with their friends to listen and dance to the music. As their escapades become increasingly bold, they each get into trouble with the authorities.
Robert Sean Leonard stars as Peter, who ends up being forced -- by a prank -- into having to join the Hitler Youth with his friend Thomas (
Christian Bale). They are both engineering students at the university, where Thomas' father was taken away for defending his Jewish colleagues. With Arvid (
Frank Whaley), they pretend to be Nazi supporters by day while rebelling with the swing music by night.
Kenneth Branagh, in an uncredited appearance, is a glib Nazi Gestapo chief who makes matters more difficult. Each of the boys must choose among family, safety, friendship, and freedom as politics impinges on their youthful exuberance, and the Nazis set them against one another. The movie was shot in Prague, directed by
Thomas Carter from a script by
Jonathan Marc Feldman, and released by Disney.
Barbara Hershey appears as Peter's mother.
~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
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