Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends (2024)
Overview
In 1973, Leonid Samuilovich flees the USSR and lands a job at the BBC in London. Five years later, radio host Alexei Leonidov starts releasing clandestine recordings smuggled from totalitarian countries via intricate cloak-and-dagger operations. Today, 86-year-old music producer Leo Feigin sits on top of over 30.000 LPs, contemplating on the meaning of his work amidst the grim outlook of new Iron Curtains. Leo Records is a symbol of musical resistance against authoritarian regimes and a pioneer of what we now know as avant-garde.
Cast
Cecil Taylor
Self (archive footage)
Sergei Kuryokhin
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Chekasin
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Tarasov
Self (archive footage)
Vyacheslav Ganelin
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