The Boat That Rocked is a comedy by the successful British filmmaker Richard Curtis, screenwriter of such films as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones's Diary. As a boy, he experienced the era of pirate broadcasting that the film depicts. It's 1963, and a group of angry DJs long to listen to their beloved rock music twenty-four hours a day, but BBC radio only gives rock music two hours of airtime a week. So the rebels set up their own station, Radio Rock, which 25 million people (more than half the British population) start listening to. Will the pirates be able to defend their broadcasts against a government determined to ban them?

Richard Curtis / UK, Germany, France / 2009 / 130 min / English, Czech subtitles