Documentary / Historical / Music
USA,
2017, 61 min
(Alternative: 56 min)
Directed by:
Jim BrownScreenplay:
Jim BrownCast:
Kiefer Sutherland, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Billy Joel, Mike Love, Shane Bruce Johnston, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper (more)Plots(1)
Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of their youth. Over the next thirty years, thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western values helped fuel the nonvio- lent implosion of the Soviet regime. FREE TO ROCK features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who reveal how Rock & Roll music was a contributing factor in ending the Cold. (Moscow International Film Festival)
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