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Leto
Leto

7.4

Leto

NR·2018·126m

Summary

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.

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Kirill Serebrennikov

Idea

Ivan Kapitonov

Screenplay

Michael Idov

Screenplay

Lily Idov

Reviews

S

Simon Foster

November 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

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

Russian

Budget:

$150,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Keywords

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