Movie
BASTA: Start of the Game
2026
A gritty, heartfelt climb through a scrappy music scene, mixing street friction with the pull of first love and the stubborn hope of finding your own voice.
- Directed by
- Stas Ivanov
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Slava Kopeykin, Ksenia Treister, Yuri Nasonov
- Overview
- Rostov in the early 2000s was the cradle of Russian hip-hop: clubs, apartment concerts, street brawls. Basta searched for his voice, facing trials, mistrust, and hostile competitors, but it was his honest lyrics and charisma that first captivated the Rostov hip-hop community. Against the backdrop of first love, friendship, and family trials, he made his ultimate choice: to devote himself to music.
- How it feels
- Earnest, melancholic, tense and warm. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Music, ambition, identity, friendship
- Content
- Strong language. Mild violence and sexual content. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Stas Ivanov
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Slava Kopeykin, Ksenia Treister, Yuri Nasonov
