Leto (2018)

06/07/2018Music, 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. Cast 1

    Teo Yoo

    Viktor Tsoi

  2. Cast 1

    Roman Bilyk

    Mayk Naumenko

  3. Cast 1

    Irina Starshenbaum

    Natalya Naumenko

  4. Cast 1

    Philipp Avdeev

    Leonid

  5. Cast 1

    Aleksandr Gorchilin

    Punk

  6. Cast 1

    Yuliya Aug

    Anna Alexandrovna

  7. Cast 1

    Nikita Efremov

    Bob

  8. Cast 1

    Georgiy Kudrenko

    Zhora

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    Aleksandra Revenko

    Maryana's Friend

"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