Babylon (1980)
1h 35m
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November 7, 1980Release Date
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Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
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Cast & Crew.
David N. Haynes
Errol
Trevor Laird
Beefy
Victor Romero Evans
Lover
Brian Bovell
Scientist
Archie Pool
Dreadhead
Brinsley Forde
Blue
Karl Howman
Ronnie
T-Bone Wilson
Wesley
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Babylon is a 1980 British drama film directed by Franco Rosso. Written by Franco Rosso and Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia), and shot by two-time Academy Award winner Chris Menges (The Killing Fields), Babylon 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-70s.
Produced by Gavrik Losey and the National Film Finance Corporation, the film is regarded as a classic.