Leto

Leto

2018
★★★★☆ 7.4/10
⏱️ 126 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 RU
MusicDrama
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.

Cast

Teo Yoo
Teo Yoo
Viktor Tsoi
Roman Bilyk
Roman Bilyk
Mayk Naumenko
Irina Starshenbaum
Irina Starshenbaum
Natalya Naumenko
Philipp Avdeev
Philipp Avdeev
Leonid
Aleksandr Gorchilin
Aleksandr Gorchilin
Punk
Yuliya Aug
Yuliya Aug
Anna Alexandrovna

User Reviews

Simon Foster
"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
November 13, 2018

Crew

Director
Kirill Serebrennikov
Writer
Michael Idov, Lily Idov, Kirill Serebrennikov
Producer
Ilya Stewart, Pavel Burya, Murad Osmann

Production

Hype Film, KinoVista, Charades, Bac Films, CNC

Keywords

love trianglesoviet unionst. petersburg, russiarock musicsummerrock bandthreesomeperestroikakoryo-saramrussian music