A kaleidoscopic living diary of the underground rock scene in Leningrad just before perestroika.
Direction
Nugmanov's raw vérité captures a scene about to explode.
Production
Shot guerrilla-style; the danger feels real.
Director
Rashid Nugmanov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was shot in 1986, months before Gorbachev's reforms made rock semi-legal — the musicians here were still genuine outlaws.
Viktor Tsoi would die in a car crash in 1990; his ghostly appearance here became unintentionally elegiac.
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