From Russia with Rock
Sirppi ja kitara
Release: 1988-09-09
·Runtime: 108m
·★ 6.0
Documentary
Music
A Finnish documentary about the feelings of a rock generation in the Soviet Union during Gorbachev's regime: the film follows underground bands' rise to publicity, the country's first "official" rock festival called the Moscow Rock Panorama-87 and the rocket-like ascent of Uralian Nautilus Pompilius into the starry sky of Soviet rock. Also appearing: "Аквариум", "Авиа", "Телевизор", "Браво", "Ва Банкъ", "Бригада С", "Новая Коллекция", "Мистер Твистер", "Круиз", "Нюанс", "Альянс", Uriah Heep.
Production Countries
Finland
Production Companies
Villealfa Filmproductions
YLE
Gosteleradio USSR
Cast
Billy Bragg
as himself
Grigoriy Bezuglyy
as himself
Nikolay Gusev
as himself
Aleksandr Sklyar
as himself
Boris Grebenshchikov
as himself
Garik Sukachyov
as himself
Artemiy Troitskiy
as himself
Vyacheslav Butusov
as himself
Ilya Kormiltsev
as himself
Bernie Shaw
as himself
Igor Zhuravlev
as himself
Alexei Rakhov
as himself
Zhanna Aguzarova
as herself