The Soviet Union was collapsing. The amps were cranked to eleven.
Documentary — featuring both interviews and live footage — about underground rock music in Russia, during the last years of the Perestroika.
Direction
Uchitel captures raw energy before the state could sanitize it.
Production
Illicit footage smuggled past censors — history as it happened.
Director
Alexei Uchitel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
These musicians weren't just artists — they were dissidents risking KGB attention for distorted guitars.
Grebenshchikov's band Aquarium was banned from official venues, so they played in apartments and forests.
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