Summer

Story

Kirill Serebrennikov’s new film is a light-footed, yet energetic trip through Leningrad’s underground music scene, shortly before the advent of perestroika and glasnostA summer in Leningrad in the early 1980s. While LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie surreptitiously change hands, the underground music scene is bubbling under. Mike and his wife Natasha meet charismatic musician Wiktor Zoi. Their passion for music soon make them an idiosyncratically inseparable triangle. Despite state control over live music, the new movement they are part of will change the destiny of rock ‘n’ roll in the Soviet Union.

Director

KIRILL SEREBRENNIKOW (*1969) works as a director in theatre, opera and film and is often in trouble with the authorities because of his open criticism of the system. He was under house arrest while Leto was being shot and directed the film via Skype.

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