2017 · 61 min · dokumentalny · musical · historyczny

Free to Rock

Znany też jako: Rock 'n' roll i Sovjetunionen · Rock 'n' roll Neuvostoliitossa · Brīvību Ģitārai

Opis filmu

Opis oryginalny: angielski

FREE TO ROCK is a 60 minute documentary film directed by 4 time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Ten years in the making, the film explores the soft power of Rock & Roll to affect social change behind the Iron Curtain between the years 1955 and 1991, and how it contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and to ending the Cold War. Rock & Roll sounded the "chimes of freedom" in the hearts and minds of Iron Curtain youth. Inspiring its youth to demand freedom to listen, play and record rock music, to enjoy basic human rights and freedom from oppressive communist rule. The story follows the key political, musical and activist players in this real-life drama as the KGB cracked down hard with arrests, beatings, death threats and imprisonment. Thousands of underground rock bands with millions of passionate supporters inspire and fuel independence movements that eventually cause the Soviet communist system to implode without blood shed or civil war. ...

Reżyseria i główne role

Reżyseria: Jim Brown

Główne role: Kiefer Sutherland jako Narrator, Tsvety jako Themselves, Jimmy Carter jako Jimmy Carter, Yuri Valov jako Yuri Valov, Billy Joel jako Billy Joel, Andrey Makarevich jako Andrey Makarevich

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Scenariusz

Nick Binkley, Jim Brown, Stas Namin, Valery Saifudinov, Douglas Yeager