Leto (2018)
2h 6m | PG-13
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
Studio: Hype Film
Genre: Music, Drama
Video: 720p
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
Reviews
"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