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How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

The story of the Beatles' effect on the Soviet Union.

Movie - 60mins

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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)

Rating: 6.5

Cast:

name

Yury

Pelyushonok

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Stas

Namin

name

Paul

McCartney

name

Boris

Grebenshchikov

name

Vladimir

Pozner

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Artemiy

Troitskiy

name

Leslie

Woodhead

name

George

Martin

name

Kolya

Vasin

name

Yury

Pelyushonok

name

Stas

Namin

name

Paul

McCartney

name

Boris

Grebenshchikov

name

Vladimir

Pozner

name

Artemiy

Troitskiy

name

Leslie

Woodhead

name

George

Martin

name

Kolya

Vasin

name

Yury

Pelyushonok