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Note: Co-written with British script-writer Stephen Ward and British director/script-writer Iain Softley.
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Backbeat
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Film Details - Channel Four Films ; Polygram Filmed Entertainment ; Scala Productions ; Fortbeam , 1994

Producers:

Finola Dwyer and Stephen Woolley.

Production Companies:

Scala Productions.
Channel Four Films.
Fortbeam.
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment.

Director of Photography:

Ian Wilson.

Editors:

Martin Walsh.

Production Designers:

Joseph Bennett.

Music:

Don Was.

Cast:

Including 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), Paul Duckworth (Ringo Starr), Kai Wiesinger (Klaus Voormann), and Jennifer Ehle (Cynthia Powell).

Release Dates:

Premiered in January 1994 (Sundance Film Festival).

Location:

  • Filmed in England and Germany.

Post Production:

Sapex Scripts (post-production script services).

Awards:

  • Cleveland International Film Festival, Best Film (won), 1994.
  • Evening Standard British Film Awards, Most Promising Newcomer (joint winner), 1995.
  • London Critics Circle Film Awards, British Newcomer of the Year (won), 1995.
  • BAFTA Award, Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music (won), 1995.
  • BAFTA Award, Best Sound (nominated), 1995.
Subjects:
Settings:
  • c
    Germany,
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1962
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