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 Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the European Film Award for Best Production Designer (2018)
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Nominations
Nominated for the IFFR audience award (2019)
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Box office
Made on a $150K budget
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Setting
Set in Saint Petersburg and the Soviet Union
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Music
Music by Ilya Demutsky
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Vladislav Opeliants
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Mikhail IdovScreenplay
- Kirill SerebrennikovScreenplay
- Lily IdovScreenplay
- Original title
- Лето
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 7, 2018
- Original language
- Russian
- Budget
- $150K
- Countries
- France, Russia
Production
Cast
Teo YooViktor Tsoi
Roman BilykMayk Naumenko
Irina StarshenbaumNatalya Naumenko
Philipp AvdeevLeonid
Aleksandr GorchilinPunk
Yuliya AugAnna Alexandrovna
Nikita EfremovBob
Georgiy KudrenkoZhora
Aleksandra RevenkoMaryana's Friend
Nikita ElenevVirus
Liya AkhedzhakovaFlat's Owner
Yelena KorenevaWoman in Red
Aleksandr BashirovMan in Train
Seva NovgorodtsevAntigue Dealer
Vasily MikhailovIsha
Aleksandr KuznetsovSkeptic
Anton AdasinskyFlat's Owner- Andrey KhodorchenkovArtem
Semyon SerzinMikhaylov
Evgeny GrigoryevCinematographer
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