How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

September. 06,2009

Rating：

6.8

Genre：

History Documentary Music

Keywords：

Cold War

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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)

Artemiy Troitskiy as Self - Russian Rock Commentator

Leslie Woodhead as Self - Narrator

George Martin as Self

Kolya Vasin as Self

Stas Namin as Self

Paul McCartney as Self

Boris Grebenshchikov as Self

Vladimir Pozner jr. as Self

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