A documentary film about the cult New Romantic band Oceán.
Oceán is one of the most original, legendary, and influential Czech bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Four young men from South Bohemia; Petr Muk, Petr Kučera, Dušan Vozáry, and Jan Vozáry, created a sound and visual style unprecedented in the country at the time. Their electronic pop, inspired by Depeche Mode and spiritual symbolism, formed a darkly romantic aesthetic that felt like something from another world.
Oceán became an icon of its generation, attracting thousands of devoted fans and even achieving success abroad, yet at the peak of its career, the band broke up. Its story offers truly emotional and dramatic moments: from the meeting of a group of young men who found their style and managed to break through despite their differences and problems with the regime, overcoming record label scepticism, building a strong fan base, influencing youth culture and other bands through both image and genre, through a wave of creative freedom and opportunities abroad, internal crises within the band, the subsequent spiritually oriented hit project Shalom, to the phenomenon of Petr Muk’s later multiple “Český slavík” awards and his solo career marked by a lifelong struggle with inner pain, and finally the band’s comeback years later to the Czech music scene.
The screening will be in Czech.
Free entry with prior reservation.