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A love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia.A love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia.A love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia.
- Awards
- 14 wins & 29 nominations
Roman Bilyk
- Mike
- (as Roma Zver)
Ksenia Plyusnina
- Ksusha
- (as Ksenia Plusnina)
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- TriviaBesides Victor Tsoy and Mayk Naumenko, several characters known only by their first names or nicknames are stand-ins for real musicians, popular in the Soviet rock scene. In 1980's Leonid (Filipp Avdeyev) represents Aleksey Rybin of 'Kino' fame. 'Punk' is a stand-in for Andrey 'Svin' Panov (Aleksandr Gorchilin), leader of 'Avtomaticheskiye ydovletvoreniye' punk band and one of the pioneers of punk genre in USSR. Bob (Nikita Efremov) is Boris Grebenshchikov, leader of rock band 'Akvarium' and Artyom (Andrey Khodorchenkov) represents Artemiy Troitskiy, pioneer of rock music in USSR and organizer of multiple rock concerts and festivals.
- Crazy creditsThe title card before the end credits roll is Russian for "This film is dedicated to those we love"
- ConnectionsReferenced in Evening Urgant: Denis Klyaver/Vyacheslav Kuznetsov/Stanislav Tsapaev (2018)
- SoundtracksDryan'
Written by Mikhail Naumenko
Performed by Zveri: Roman Bilyk (vocals), German Osipov (guitars), Kirill Afonin (bass),Valentin Tarasov (drums), Vyacheslav Zarubov (keyboards)
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From Kirill with love - Rock'n'roll rebellion in Soviet Russia
I've not posted for a while, life taking a huge dip lately and i've been busy with other stuff. No idea what to start with, i had been listening to bands from the Eastern bloc. Then switched to Thrash metal and listened to Shah's Beware album (1989) and E. S. T. Electro Shock Therapy (1989). I was going back and forth and played classic rock bands from the Soviet. I remembered Serebrennikov's movie but was not able to recollect the name. I looked it up and it put me in a good zone after all the music, I watched it twice!
The movie is a portrait of Leningrad's underground music scene of the early 1980s - shot in moody monochrome, loosely based on Kino frontman Viktor Tsoi ( the Marc Bolan of Russia back in those days) with an interesting story of keeping the flame alive in the declining scene (who would not like to know what was being a rock star in the Soviet Union in the 80's ?) It is beautifully shot, a perfect ode to the youth and rock in Soviet Russia, which also contains the immortal line: "This is Natasha, she really loves tomatoes". Kirill Serebrennikov has put his sweat, blood and tears and completed the project while he was under house arrest and it triggered backlash from the public when he was denied permission to attend the cremation of his mother by the court.
I would definitely say that I'm a big fan of Serebrennikov films and his vision for Leto is so passionate and poetic that you feel you're part of the era amidst the turmoil and what it really felt like listening to rock music in the 80s featuring music by T-Rex, Talking Heads, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Bowie, Blondie & more. There are filmmakers who have contributed to this genre, but Serebrennikov is one of the handful to have succeeded in this initiative of linking music to political protest.
The movie is a portrait of Leningrad's underground music scene of the early 1980s - shot in moody monochrome, loosely based on Kino frontman Viktor Tsoi ( the Marc Bolan of Russia back in those days) with an interesting story of keeping the flame alive in the declining scene (who would not like to know what was being a rock star in the Soviet Union in the 80's ?) It is beautifully shot, a perfect ode to the youth and rock in Soviet Russia, which also contains the immortal line: "This is Natasha, she really loves tomatoes". Kirill Serebrennikov has put his sweat, blood and tears and completed the project while he was under house arrest and it triggered backlash from the public when he was denied permission to attend the cremation of his mother by the court.
I would definitely say that I'm a big fan of Serebrennikov films and his vision for Leto is so passionate and poetic that you feel you're part of the era amidst the turmoil and what it really felt like listening to rock music in the 80s featuring music by T-Rex, Talking Heads, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Bowie, Blondie & more. There are filmmakers who have contributed to this genre, but Serebrennikov is one of the handful to have succeeded in this initiative of linking music to political protest.
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- Summer
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- Saint Petersburg, Russia(setting of the action)
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- $3,073,293
- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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