Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LP’s 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.
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Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
- Viktor Tsoi: Yoo Teo
- Mayk Naumenko: Roman Bilyk
- Natalya Naumenko: Irina Starshenbaum
- Leonid: Philip Avdeev
- punk: Alexandr Gorchilin
- Anna Alexandrovna: Yuliya Aug
- Bob: Nikita Efremov
- …: Georgiy Kudrenko
- …: Aleksandra Revenko
- …: Nikita Elenev
- flat’s owner: Liya Akhedzhakova
- woman in red: Yelena Koreneva
- …: Aleksandr Bashirov
- …: Seva Novgorodtsev
- Isha: Vasily Mikhailov
- skeptic: Aleksandr Kuznetsov
- flat’s owner: Anton Adasinsky
- Artem: Andrey Khodorchenkov
- Mikhaylov: Semen Serzin
- Cinematographer: Evgeny Grigoryev
Film Crew:
- Director of Photography: Vladislav Opelyants
- Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
- Production Design: Andrey Ponkratov
- Screenplay: Michael Idov
- Idea: Ivan Kapitonov
- Makeup Artist: Tamara Frid
- Costume Design: Tatyana Dolmatovskaya
- Co-Producer: Ilya Dzhincharadze
- Producer: Yury Kozyrev
- Producer: Murad Osmann
- Co-Producer: Sergey Shtern
- Producer: Ilya Stewart
- Producer: Mikhail Finogenov
- Producer: Pavel Burya
- Line Producer: Elizaveta Chalenko
- Editor: Yuri Karikh
- Co-Producer: Charles Chekhov
- Screenplay: Lily Idov
- Sound Director: Boris Voyt
- Associate Producer: Pierre Mazars
- Associate Producer: Yohann Comte
- Associate Producer: Carole Baraton
- Co-Producer: Ekaterina Yarotskaya
- Executive Producer: Olga Zorina
- Producer: Georgy Chumburidze
Movie 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