Backbeat (Film)

Backbeat is a joint production between the UK and Germany from the year 1994. The film, which was created under the guidance of director Iain Softley, describes the early years of the English musical group The Beatles. The focus of the presentation examines the relationship between John Lennon, the former bassist Stuart Sutcliffe and Astrid Kirchherr.

Content

1960: The Beatles - then in the occupation of John Lennon (guitar, vocals ), Paul McCartney (guitar, vocals), George Harrison ( guitar), Pete Best ( drums), and Lennon's best friend, the art student Stuart Sutcliffe (bass ) travel to Hamburg, on proceeding to take an exposure to the music club "Kaiser Keller".

Times are hard, the food and the accommodations miserable, payment low. While the band is doing her best at the beginning they were a rather disinterested, mainly consisting of sailors and drinkers audience, they gradually won the hearts of an intellectual, young audience. Among them is the photographer Astrid Kirchherr. Sutcliffe and Kirchherr fall in love. The bassist less talented and more interested in painting Sutcliffe neglected the band is late for gigs.

Paul McCartney has to take more and more often his job on bass. So also with the first recording session as a backing band for singer Tony Sheridan. The friendship between John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe threatens to break. Sutcliffe decided to devote himself entirely to painting and separates from the group. The film ends with the death of Sutcliffe in 1962 of a brain haemorrhage and a reunion of the Beatles with Astrid Kirchherr in Hamburg.

Reviews

" A side note from the early history of the Beatles, directed with a light hand and stimmigem period atmosphere; Moments, in which dramatizes and interprets beyond measure, are the entertainment value hardly detrimental. "

Soundtrack

For the soundtrack of Don Was produced rock 'n' roll standards were re-recorded, the Beatles had in their early days in Hamburg from Indra to the Star Club in your repertoire. The recordings are based in the arrangements at that time the sound of the Beatles. They were played by an all- star band of well-known rock musicians as Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters ), Greg Dulli ( Afghan Whigs ), Dave Pirner ( Soul Asylum ), Thurston Moore ( Sonic Youth ), Don Fleming ( Gumball ) and Mike Mills (SEM).

Awards (selection)

  • Actor Ian Hart was honored at the 1995 Evening Standard British Film Awards with an award in the category Most Promising Newcomer.
  • Director Softley received at the London Critics Circle Film Awards the ALFA Award for British Newcomer of the Year.
1994 in film Screenplay Stephen Woolley Film score Ian Wilson (cinematographer) Martin Walsh (film editor) Kaiserkeller R.E.M. Inkheart (film)
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