Red Elvis: The Cold War Cowboy

20222022
1h 31m

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Meet Dean Reed, the American popstar who defected to the Soviet Bloc in the '70s and became a superstar. He packs stadiums, preaches Marxism and inspires a generation...until his body is fou... Read allMeet Dean Reed, the American popstar who defected to the Soviet Bloc in the '70s and became a superstar. He packs stadiums, preaches Marxism and inspires a generation...until his body is found, drowned, in a lake in East Berlin.Meet Dean Reed, the American popstar who defected to the Soviet Bloc in the '70s and became a superstar. He packs stadiums, preaches Marxism and inspires a generation...until his body is found, drowned, in a lake in East Berlin.

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7.2/10

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- Thomas Latter
- Dean Reed(archive footage)
- Ramona Reed
- Mike Wallace(archive footage)

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7/10

Interesting Documentary

I had never heard of Dean Reed, so this was all new to me.

He really is an example where a social conscious, activism and naivety can lead down a very rocky path to an almost inevitable conclusion.

If you end up alienated by both sides in the Cold War, where is there left to go?

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