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)VOD (1)
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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)
(more)Cast
Kiefer Sutherland
UK
Best movies:
Phone Booth (2002)
Stand by Me (1986)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Jimmy Carter
USA
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Billy Joel
USA
Best movies:
The Concert for New York City (2001) (concert)
Oliver & Company (1988)
12-12-12 (2013) (concert)
Mike Love
USA
Elton John
UK
Best movies:
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (1992) (concert)
Billy Elliot the Musical (2014) (theatrical recording)
Live 8 (2005) (concert)
Bruce Springsteen
USA
Best movies:
Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000 (2001) (video compilation)
High Fidelity (2000)
Bruce Springsteen: Video Anthology 1978-1988 (1989) (video compilation)
Cyndi Lauper
USA
Best movies:
Here and There (2009)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Life with Mikey (1993)
Andrey Makarevich
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Děň vyborov (2007)
Afonya (1975)
What Men Talk About (2010)
Vratislav Brabenec
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
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Starci na Chmelnici (2019) (concert)
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Boris Grebenshchikov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Nežnyj vozrast (2000)
Elvis Presley (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Wild in the Country (1961)
Change of Habit (1969)
Loving You (1957)
Robert F. Kennedy (a.f.)
USA
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The Doors (1991) - a.f.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) - a.f.
Bobby (2006) - a.f.
Ronald Reagan
USA
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Storm Warning (1951)
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996) (video compilation)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
Václav Havel (a.f.)
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
Marta Kubišová 1990 (1990) (concert)
Largo desolato (1991) (theatrical recording) - narrator
Mick Jagger (a.f.)
UK
Best movies:
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The Rutles in All You Need Is Cash (1978) (TV movie)
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Charlie Watts (a.f.)
UK
Best movies:
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 (2015) (concert)
12-12-12 (2013) (concert)
Keith Richards (a.f.)
UK
Best movies:
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 (2015) (concert)
The Concert for New York City (2001) (concert)
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Bruce Johnston
USA
Best movies: