Leto (2018)
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.
- Nadezhda Ilyukevich
- Kirill Serebrennikov
- Michael Idov
- Kirill Serebrennikov
- Lily Idov
- Ivan Kapitonov
Rating: 7.4/10 by 308 users
Alternative Title:
L'été - FR
Summer - US
Lato - PL
레토 - KR
Summer (Leto) - IT
leto - DE
LETO レト - JP
Country:
France
Russia
Language:
Pусский
Runtime: 02 hour 06 minutes
Budget: $150,000
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: love triangle, soviet union, rock music, summer, rock band, threesome, perestroika, koryo-saram, russian music, saint petersburg, russia
"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
