Umbrella vs. Knife in a Hamburg Back-alley (Swing Kids, 1993)

  • Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 4th September 2017

In this short fight scene from the movie Swing Kids, Peter Müller (Christian Bale) takes on a knife-wielding member of the Hitlerjugend, applying some deft umbrella techniques that will be recognisable to Bartitsu aficionados.

In real history, the laissez-faire Swingjugend – who much preferred American jazz and English fashions to the crushing conformity of Nazism – frequently did engage in street fights with the Hitler Youth.

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