Babylon (1980 film)
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| Directed by | Franco Rosso |
| Written by | Franco Rosso Martin Stellman |
| Produced by | Gavrik Losey |
| Starring | Brinsley Forde Karl Howman Trevor Laird |
| Cinematography | Chris Menges |
| Edited by | Thomas Schwalm |
| Music by | Dennis Bovell |
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| Distributed by | Kino Lorber Repertory Seventy-Seven |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | English and Jamaican patois with subtitles |
| Budget | £300,000 |
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-70s.
Produced by Gavrik Losey and the National Film Finance Corporation, the film is regarded as a classic.