How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

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

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

Cast

Artemiy Troitskiy

Self - Russian Rock Commentator

Leslie Woodhead

Self - Narrator

George Martin

Self

Kolya Vasin

Self

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Yury Pelyushonok

Self

Stas Namin

Self

Paul McCartney

Self

Boris Grebenshchikov

Self