Swing Kids (1993)

Starring: Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Barbara Hershey, Tushka Bergen. Director: Thomas Carter (II) Swing Kids (German: Swingjugend) were a group of jazz and Swing lovers in Germany of the 1930s, mainly in Hamburg (St. Pauli) and Berlin. They were composed of 14 to 18year old boys and girls in high school, most of them middle or upperclass students, but some apprentice workers as They sought the British and American way of life, defining themselves in Swing music, and opposing the NationalSocialist ideology, especially the Hitlerjugend.