How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
“The story of the Beatles' effect on the Soviet Union.”
2009•1h 0m•6.5•Released
HistoryDocumentaryMusic
In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the Beatles. He arranged their first live TV appearances on a local show in Manchester and watched as the Fab Four phenomenon swept the world. Twenty-five years later while making films in Russia, Woodhead became aware of how, even though they were never able to play in the Soviet Union, the Beatles' legend had soaked into the lives of a generation of kids. This film meets the Soviet Beatles generation and hears their stories about how the Fab Four changed their lives, including Putin's deputy premier Sergei Ivanov, who explains how the Beatles helped him learn English and showed him another life. (Storyville)
Director
Leslie Woodhead
Languages
English, Russian
Studio
Blakeway Productions
Cast
Artemiy Troitskiy
Self - Russian Rock Commentator
Leslie Woodhead
Self - Narrator
George Martin
Self
Kolya Vasin
Self
Yury Pelyushonok
Self
Stas Namin
Self
Paul McCartney
Self
Boris Grebenshchikov
Self
Vladimir Pozner
Self
Production
Company
Blakeway Productions
Company
BBC
Company
Thirteen
Company
ARTE
Company
SWR
Producer
Leslie Woodhead
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