Returning to 1963 Communist Hungary after a lengthy sojourn in the States with his diplomat parents, 18-year-old Miki (Tamas Szabo Kimmel) reunites with his musician friends and proceeds to show his countrymen and women what rock'n'roll is all about in this high-spirited, comedic musical. Based on the smash hit stage musical inspired by real-life 1960s-era Magyar rocker Miklos Fenyo, the film delivers both historical nostalgia and entertainingly subversive counter-history in charting Miki and company's youthful reproach to Communist-era bureaucratic dullness. Perfect period detail, a winning soundtrack and a dynamite cast of young actors make this East-meets-West, fact-based rock'n'roll fantasy a real charmer. Official Selection, 2009 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

DIR Gergely Fonyó; SCR István Tasnádi, Norbert Köbli, based on the play by Miklós Fenyõ and István Tasnádi; PROD József Cirkó, Ádám Neményi. Hungary, 2009, color, 109 min. In English and Hungarian with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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