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Leto

2018 · 126 min

A wistful, music-soaked summer dream that blurs memory and fantasy, inviting you to drift through smoky clubs and fleeting romances.

Directed by
Kirill Serebrennikov
Genres
Music, Drama
Starring
Teo Yoo, Roman Bilyk, Irina Starshenbaum
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.

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Directed by
Kirill Serebrennikov
Genres
Music, Drama
Starring
Teo Yoo, Roman Bilyk, Irina Starshenbaum
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • music
  • love
  • friendship
  • identity
  • freedom
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour5
Realism7
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
music, drama
Directed by
Kirill Serebrennikov
Written by
Kirill Serebrennikov, Lily Idov, Mikhail Idov
Starring
Teo Yoo, Roman Bilyk, Irina Starshenbaum, Philipp Avdeev, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Yuliya Aug, Nikita Efremov, Georgiy Kudrenko
Music
Roman Bilyk, Ilya Demutsky
Cinematography
Vladislav Opelyants
Runtime
126 min
Country
France, Russia
Languages
Russian

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