Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends (2024)
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.
- Released
- 2024-11-01
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 70 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Ioana Grigore
Cast
- Leo Feigin as Self
- Lora Denisenko as Self
- Alex Kan as Self
- Ioana Grigore as Self
- Cecil Taylor as Self (archive footage)
- Sergei Kuryokhin as Self (archive footage)
- Vladimir Chekasin as Self (archive footage)
- Vladimir Tarasov as Self (archive footage)
- Vyacheslav Ganelin as Self (archive footage)
- Carolyn Hume as Self
- Paul May as Self
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