Leto

2018 2h 6m RU

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7.4

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★7.4TMDB · 355

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Synopsis

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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 Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Teo Yoo
Viktor Tsoi
Roman Bilyk
Mayk Naumenko
Irina Starshenbaum
Natalya Naumenko
Philipp Avdeev
Leonid
Aleksandr Gorchilin
Punk
Yuliya Aug
Anna Alexandrovna
Nikita Efremov
Bob
Georgiy Kudrenko
Zhora

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Writers: Mikhail Idov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Lily Idov
Languages: Russian
Countries: France, Russia

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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Released 8 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: France, Russia.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, shot by Vladislav Opelyants. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Roman Bilyk. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Yuri Karikh shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Teo Yoo and Roman Bilyk and Irina Starshenbaum carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt7342838 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Kirill Serebrennikov directs. Vladislav Opelyants behind the camera. Roman Bilyk scores. Yuri Karikh cuts. Produced in France, Russia. Dialogue in Russian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $0.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Released 8 years ago.
3International production across 2 countries: France, Russia.
4Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, shot by Vladislav Opelyants. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Roman Bilyk. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Yuri Karikh shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Teo Yoo and Roman Bilyk and Irina Starshenbaum carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt7342838 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 10 themes, including "love triangle", "soviet union", "st. petersburg, russia", "rock music".

The technical file

Cinematography: Vladislav Opelyants
Original score: Roman Bilyk
Editing: Yuri Karikh
Production design: Andrey Ponkratov
Costume design: Tatyana Dolmatovskaya
Makeup / hair: Tamara Frid
Runtime: 126 min · 2h 6m
Status: Released
Budget: $150,000
Original language: RU
IMDB: Leto (2018)

Awards

European Film Award for Best Production Designer

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Community reviews

What people are saying

Simon Foster2018-11-13
"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

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