How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead filmed a two-minute piece at Liverpool's Cavern Club featuring a raw, unrecorded rock group called the Beatles. He later arranged their first live television appearances on a local show in Manchester and witnessed the global rise of the Fab Four phenomenon. Twenty-five years later, while making films in Russia, Woodhead discovered how the Beatles' influence had permeated the lives of a generation of Soviet youth, despite the band never having performed in the country. The film explores the experiences of the Soviet Beatles generation, including Putin's deputy premier Sergei Ivanov, who recounts how the Beatles helped him learn English and introduced him to a different way of life. (Storyville)