Swing Kids (1993)

One of my favorites!
Excellent film with some history, some fun dancing and some serious tear jerking...The music and dancing is amazing in this film but the story is really powerful too!

A Swinging Good Time
This movie is amazing. Robert Sean Leonard and Christian Bale give amazing performances. The storyline is really powerful with messages that go beyond the WWII era. I first watched this movie in a German class, but bought it really soon afterwards... it's extremely powerful.

Not fantastic, but has some good elements
What's not fantastic: some of the overemoting; some of the very obvious points made about the dangers of National Socialism and the Hitler Youth.


What's good and makes it worth seeing: great dance and music scenes which take place more or less in secret, like speakeasies and raves; a largely unknown historical subject; the concept that those who believe in freedom must be willing to take chances and risks to maintain it even in the face of danger and persecution.