Leto 2018

7.5 / 10   296 vote(s)
Music Drama

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

Homepage https://www.hypepro.tv/filmtv/video/leto
Release Date 2018-06-07
Runtime 2h 6m
Directors Kirill Serebrennikov, Boris Voyt, Vladislav Opelyants, Nadezhda Ilyukevich, Nikolay Shinkorenko
Producers Ilya Stewart, Pavel Burya, Ilya Dzhincharadze, Elizaveta Chalenko, Murad Osmann, Mikhail Finogenov, Charles Chekhov, Sergey Shtern, Georgy Chumburidze, Yohann Comte, Pierre Mazars, Carole Baraton, Yury Kozyrev, Ekaterina Yarotskaya, Olga Zorina
Writers Michael Idov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Lily Idov, Ivan Kapitonov

"The anti-establishment themes and love-conquers-all story beats inherent to the rock/pop biopic genre have been previously explored in Oliver Stone’s The Doors (1991), Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous (2000) and Anton Corbijn’s Control (2007), but rarely with such heartfelt melancholy, pained romanticism and evocative rendering of time and place..."

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Simon Foster