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Backbeat is a British film of genre Drama directed by Iain Softley released in USA on 1 april 1994 with Sheryl Lee

Backbeat (1994)

Backbeat
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Released in USA 1 april 1994
Length 1h40
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Musical
Rating65% 3.2955653.2955653.2955653.2955653.295565

Backbeat is a 1994 Anglo-German drama film directed by Iain Softley. It chronicles the early days of the Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (Ian Hart), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr (Sheryl Lee). It has subsequently been made into a stage production.

Synopsis

Les Beatles se rendent à Hambourg (Allemagne) pour une série d'engagements dans les clubs du quartier chaud de Sankt Pauli. Ils essayent de se faire remarquer par un éditeur pour enregistrer un disque. Ils y rencontreront Astrid Kirchherr et Klaus Voormann. Le film se concentre sur les rapports entre John Lennon et Stuart Sutcliffe et sur l'histoire d'amour de ce dernier avec Astrid Kirchherr. Sutcliffe quitte les Beatles pour s'installer à Hambourg avec sa promise, laissant la basse à Paul McCartney, et tandis que le groupe de Liverpool progresse vers la célébrité, il décède à 21 ans d'une hémorragie cérébrale…

Actors

Sheryl Lee

(Astrid Kirchherr)Stephen Dorff

(Stuart Sutcliffe)Ian Hart

(John Lennon)Jennifer Ehle

(Cynthia Powell)Albert Welling

(Doctor)
And :
Kai Wiesinger
James Doherty
Wolf Kähler
Gertan Klauber
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