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Leto (2018)

07/06/2018 (FR)Music, Drama2h 6m
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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.

    Top Billed Cast

    1. Teo Yoo

      Teo Yoo

      Viktor Tsoi

    2. Roman Bilyk

      Roman Bilyk

      Mayk Naumenko

    3. Irina Starshenbaum

      Irina Starshenbaum

      Natalya Naumenko

    4. Philipp Avdeev

      Philipp Avdeev

      Leonid

    5. Aleksandr Gorchilin

      Aleksandr Gorchilin

      Punk

    6. Yuliya Aug

      Yuliya Aug

      Anna Alexandrovna

    7. Nikita Efremov

      Nikita Efremov

      Bob

    8. Georgiy Kudrenko

      Georgiy Kudrenko

      Zhora

    9. Aleksandra Revenko

      Aleksandra Revenko

      Maryana's Friend

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    A review by Simon Foster

    Written by Simon Foster on Nov 13, 2018

    "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

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageRussian

    Budget$150,000.00

    Revenue-

    Keywords

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