Babylon (1980)

Directed by

Franco Rosso

Genre

drama film, hood film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man in Brixton runs a sound system and faces harassment from the police and racial hostility. The film shows the daily struggle and rising tension in his community.

grittytenseurgentrawangrypropulsiveunsettlingvisceral

What happens

Babylon is a 1980 British drama film directed by Franco Rosso. Written by Franco Rosso and Martin Stellman, it is an incendiary portrait of racial tension and police brutality set in Brixton, London. The film, anchored by Dennis Bovell’s propulsive score, is partly based on Bovell’s false imprisonment for running a Jamaican sound system, Sufferer’s Hi Fi, in the mid-1970s. Produced by Gavrik Losey and the National Film Finance Corporation, the film is regarded as a classic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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