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Backbeat

Year:
Duration:
100 min
Genres:
Biography | Drama | Music
IMDB rate:
6.7
Director:
Iain Softley
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1994-04-15
Filming Locations: Cheney Street, London, England, UK
Earnings
Gross: $2,392,599 (USA)£1,133,831 (UK)
Cast
Actor
Character
Sheryl Lee
Astrid Kirchherr
Stephen Dorff
Stuart Sutcliffe
Ian Hart
John Lennon
Gary Bakewell
Paul McCartney
Chris O'Neill
George Harrison
Scot Williams
Pete Best
Kai Wiesinger
Klaus Voormann
Jennifer Ehle
Cynthia Powell
Marcelle Duprey
Singer
John White
Sailor 1
Bernard Merrick
Sailor 2
Nicholas Tennant
Sailor 3
Finola Geraghty
Model
Rob Spendlove
Arthur Ballard
Charlie Caine
Lord Woodbine
Freda Kelly
Mrs. Harrison
Paul Humpoletz
Bruno
Christiana Uriarte
Groupie
Abigail Wrapson
Groupie
Galit Hershkovitz
Groupie
Gertan Klauber
Pimp
Stephan Grothgar
Barman
Lynn Lowton
Hooker
Manuel Harlan
Johannes
Britta Gartner
Exis
Dirk Winkler
Exis
Wolf Kahler
Bert Kaempfert
James Doherty
Tony Sheridan
Paul Duckworth
Ringo Starr
Joerg Stadler
Policeman (as Joerg Stabler)
Alexei Jawdokimov
Napoleon
Albert Welling
Doctor
Zacharee Lee
Photographic model (uncredited)
Louise Samuels
Existentialist (uncredited)
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Trivia
The shooting lasted 6 weeks. It took place in Liverpool in March 1993 and in Hamburg and London in Spring 1993.
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Ian Hart was cast a full year before production started. This was because director Iain Softley had seen his performance as John Lennon in "The Hours and the Times".
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Frieda Kelly, who plays George's mother, was a secretary of the Beatles' Fan Club in its earliest days. She even gets a mention on the Beatles' 1963 Christmas message...from George.
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Goofs
There are at least one movie posters visible, that aren't from that period. "Svezia, inferno e paradiso" (aka Sweden: Heaven and Hell) movie released in 1968, and it can seen in movie theatre scene (At 01:05).
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A scene dated March 1961 has George being wished a happy 18th birthday. George's actual birthday was in February (as was even mentioned earlier in the film.)
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The train carriage at Hamburg station has a date of 22.2.90 stenciled at the bottom. This will be the date of the last full service, 3 years before filming but 30 years after the action.
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Quotes
John Lennon: Green tea, anyone?
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John Lennon: Hello, Ladies and Genitals. We're the band. You'll be happy to know we keep our clothes on. On drums, Mr. Pete Best! On guitar, Mr. Paul McCartney. On bass, recently arrived from the dark side of the moon, Mr. Stuart Sutcliffe. And on guitar, Mr. George Harrison. He's only just on solid food. My name is Lennon, John Winston Lennon. My parents named me after Churchill, John Churchill, the wet fish man. They were thinking of naming me after my father, but Dad's such a stupid fuckin' name, don't you think?
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John Lennon: Did ya shag her?
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Faq
Q
From what did Stuart Sutcliffe die?
A
The official cause of death was a brain hemorrhage, caused when an artery in the brain bursts and bleeds into the surrounding tissues. The most common cause of brain hemorrhage for those under 50 is head trauma. Other causes may include high blood pressure (which can weaken vessel walls), blood vessel abnormalities present from birth, bleeding disorders such as hemophilia or sickle cell anemia, brain tumors, and liver disease. The opening scenes of the movie show Sutcliffe being beaten about the head by a group of ruffians, giving the impression that such trauma might have eventually led to his brain hemorrhage. According to Dr Peter Hammelhoff, Director of Medicine at the Hamburg Hospital where Sutcliffe was taken after his collapse, the cause of the brain hemorrhage was drug related, a result of alcohol and Preludin abuse.
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What is Backbeat about?
A
Backbeat is a fictionalized account of the pre-fame days of the Beatles, from the time they left Liverpool in August of 1960 for a gig in Hamburg, Germany until Stuart Sutcliffe's death in April, 1962 . Although the film features all four Beatles -- John Lennon (Ian Hart), Paul McCartney (Gary Bakewell), George Harrison (Chris O'Neill), and Ringo Starr (Paul Duckworth) -- plus two early Beatles, Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff) and Pete Best (Scot Williams), the movie concentrates on the relationship between Lennon and Sutcliffe.
Q
How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?
A
For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Backbeat can be found here.
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