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Airs Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV
Above: Beatles matrushka dolls. This documentary tells the extraordinary and untold story of how the Beatles punctured the Iron Curtain.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
"How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin" is the extraordinary and untold story of how the Beatles punctured the Iron Curtain.
Above: Bandmates Yuri Pelyushonok, Yuri Yakovlev and Anatoly Chernuchevich, who reunited for this film, wrote and performed a new song, “Kruschev Era Rock,” for this documentary.
In August 1962, award-winning director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film, in Liverpool’s Cavern Club, with a raw and unrecorded group of unknown rockers — the Beatles.
Twenty-five years later, while making a series of films in Russia, Woodhead learned just how powerful Beatlemania was in the Soviet Union.
Even though the Beatles never performed there, their music and rebellious style had soaked into the lives of a generation of Russian kids.
This film features personal stories from members of Russia’s Beatles generation, who talk about how the Fab Four changed their lives, gave them hope and helped to undermine the foundations of the Soviet system.
The film is available for online viewing.
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