--- title: 'Backbeat (1994)' type: 'film' director: 'Iain Softley' released: '1994-01-01' runtime_minutes: 96 genres: - 'Drama' - 'History' countries: - 'Germany' - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/backbeat-1994' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106339/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Backbeat (1994) 1994 · 96 min · Drama, History · Germany, United Kingdom ## Synopsis Backbeat is a 1994 British biographical drama film directed and co-written by Iain Softley in his feature directorial debut. It chronicles the early days of the Beatles in Hamburg, West Germany, focusing primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon, and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr. ## Credits - **Director:** [Iain Softley](https://cinepixo.com/people/iain-softley) - **Screenplay:** [Iain Softley](https://cinepixo.com/people/iain-softley), [Stephen Ward](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-ward), [Michael Thomas](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-thomas) - **Original Music Composer:** [Don Was](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-was) - **Producer:** [Stephen Woolley](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-woolley) - **Director of Photography:** [Ian Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-wilson-2) - **Editor:** [Martin Walsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-walsh) ## Cast - [Sheryl Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/sheryl-lee) as Astrid Kirchherr - [Gary Bakewell](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-bakewell) as Paul McCartney - [Stephen Dorff](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-dorff) as Stuart Sutcliffe - [Jennifer Ehle](https://cinepixo.com/people/jennifer-ehle) as Cynthia Lennon - [Kai Wiesinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/kai-wiesinger) as Klaus Voormann - [Wolf Kahler](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolf-kahler) as Bert Kaempfert - [Scot Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/scot-williams) as Pete Best - [Ian Hart](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-hart) as John Lennon ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/backbeat-1994 Film facts: Wikidata (Q593772); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.