Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs 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.
Teo Yoo
as Viktor Tsoi
Roman Bilyk
as Mayk Naumenko
Irina Starshenbaum
as Natalya Naumenko
Philipp Avdeev
as Leonid
Aleksandr Gorchilin
as Punk
Yuliya Aug
as Anna Alexandrovna
Nikita Efremov
as Bob
Georgiy Kudrenko
as Zhora
Aleksandra Revenko
as Maryana's Friend
Nikita Elenev
as Virus
Simon Foster
"The anti-establishment themes and love-conquers-all story beats inherent to the rock/pop biopic genre have been previously explored in Oliver Stone’s The Doors (1991), Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous (2000) and Anton Corbijn’s Control (2007), but rarely with such heartfelt melancholy, pained romantic...