Leto

Unrated

1/9/20192h 6m

Premiere Release (US)

Overview:

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.

Director:

Kirill Serebrennikov

Status:

Released

Language:

Russian

Buget:

$150,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

love triangle
soviet union
st. petersburg, russia
rock music
summer
rock band
threesome
perestroika
koryo-saram
russian music

Cast

Teo Yoo

~ as ~

Viktor Tsoi

Roman Bilyk

~ as ~

Mayk Naumenko

Irina Starshenbaum

~ as ~

Natalya Naumenko

Philipp Avdeev

~ as ~

Leonid

Aleksandr Gorchilin

~ as ~

Punk

Yuliya Aug

~ as ~

Anna Alexandrovna

Nikita Efremov

~ as ~

Bob

Georgiy Kudrenko

~ as ~

Zhora

Aleksandra Revenko

~ as ~

Maryana's Friend

Nikita Elenev

~ as ~

Virus

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Reviews (1)

SF
Simon Foster
Written 7 year(s) ago
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"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..."

Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2018/11/14/leto-summer.html