Communist Poland's underground jazz scene: where saxophones were weapons and every party was a revolution.
Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc, each time waiting for the management to disappear in order to shift gears to hot music. The crowd either loves it or does not know what to do. Occasionally they are harassed by the police.
Score
Actual forbidden jazz—every note carries political danger.
Direction
Feliks Falk makes paranoia feel like a heartbeat.
Director
Feliks Falk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jazz was genuinely banned as 'decadent Western influence' in 1950s Poland; musicians faced imprisonment and lost careers.
Director Feliks Falk based scenes on real underground jazz clubs in Łódź, where his own brother played illegal sessions.
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