THE SUMMER
2018 Films
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2h 8m
Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.
Direction: Kirill Serebrennikov
Script: Mkhail Idov, Lily Idova, Kirill Serebrennikov
Production: Ilya Stewart
Co-Production: Murad Osmann, Charles-Évrard Tcheckhoff
Cinematography: Vladislav Opelyants
Production Design: Andrey Ponkratov
Costume Design: Tatiana Dolmatovskaya
Make-Up: Tamara Frid
Sound: Boris Voyt
Visual Effects: Yurii Karih
Cast: Roma Zver, Irina Starshenbaum, Teo Yoo, Philipp Avdeev
Original Title: LETO
Original Language: Russian
Film Production Countries: Russia, France
Biography of the Director/s
Born in 1969 in Russia at Rostov-on-Don, Kirill Serebrennikov is
a Russian theater, television and film director. He is the Artistic
Director of the Gogol Center in Moscow since 2012.
He staged his first play when he was still a student. In 1992, he
graduated with a major in physics from the Rostov State University.
In 2008, he formed an experimental actor-director class at the
Moscow Art Theatre School, which later became the Seventh
Studio, now a Gogol Center full-time resident.
From 2011 to 2014, Serebrennikov was the Artistic Director of the
Platform project at the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art.
In 2015, the Gogol Center presented Serebrennikov’s play “Idiots” at
the Avignon Festival, inspired by the eponymous Lars Von Trier film.
In 2016 Kirill Serebrennikov returned to Avignon to present “Dead
Souls” based on the classic novel by Nikolai Gogol. He is the first
Russian director to participate in the event for over a decade, and
two years in a row.
In 2016, The Student premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes
Film Festival, and was awarded the Francois Chalais prize.
Leto is his first feature to be presented in Cannes’ main Competition.
On August 23 2017, Kirill Serebrennikov was arrested during
production, as Leto was reaching the end of principal photography.
He has since then been in Moscow, where he edited his film under
house arrest.
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