How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

60 mins | Documentary, History, Music | Sept. 6, 2009

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)

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

60 mins | Documentary, History, Music | Sept. 6, 2009

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
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)
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Südwestrundfunk, ARTE, BBC, Thirteen, Blakeway Productions
Original title How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
Directors Leslie Woodhead
Writers

Cast

Artemiy Troitskiy

as Himself - Russian rock commentator

Leslie Woodhead

as Himself / narrator

George Martin

as Himself

Стас Намин

as Himself

Paul McCartney

as Himself

Vladimir Pozner jr.

as himself