The man who changed the history of Russian rock music

Maribel 2022-01-24 08:07:18

The height of summer in Leningrad in the early 1980s.

Underground rock is quietly prevalent, but the club’s auditorium is surprisingly quiet for the performance scene;

The only source of restlessness is all left to the stage.

Boys wearing sunglasses and Beatles hairstyles , a few friends sneaking in from the backstage .

Spotlights swayed wantonly on the stage, and behind the curtain and in front of the seats, the club managers and reviewers wandered back and forth .

The young people in the audience hummed silently and beat the bottom of their feet silently .

The girl holding the sign caught the attention of the staff

"Enough, stop making trouble, this is not allowed."

The manager's anxiety and helplessness , the girls refuted after a few joking rebuttals .

The performance ended smoothly-there was no cheering and screaming, and the applause sounded calm;

But the expression on everyone's face, the overflow of satisfaction , can't hide.

This group of Soviet youths seemed to have just been baptized , and the light from the stage also hit their faces.

In just five minutes, [Sheng Xia] came up silently and uncomfortably, showing a picture of the late Brezhnev regime .

The audience’s reaction is as if they were listening to a political meeting.

But the expression on everyone's face, the overflow of satisfaction , can't hide.

This group of Soviet youths seemed to have just been baptized , and the light from the stage also hit their faces.

In just five minutes, [Sheng Xia] came up silently and uncomfortably, showing a picture of the late Brezhnev regime .

Doodle, music and summer

But the insinuating part will be collected when it is clicked . In the background is so obvious film, the director has chosen the most subtle way -

What the audience can feel is that the social atmosphere of the Soviet Union at that time was only the background of the film , and the focus of the story and expression was all placed on the protagonists' days like water .

Midsummer, rock and roll, laughter, youth, woods, beaches , and then to the paintings on streets, cars, and walls. Their colors broke through the black and white lens. All of these are real and passionate . All of them are happy , because All of us deserve to be owned .

Sing unbridled, and let me release the look of love

And all the other young musicians like Victor hear was the hottest group of rock and punk -

From the Beatles, Zeppelin and Rolling Stone , to the Velvet Underground, David Bowie and Iggy Pope ...

At the same time, he is constantly exploring in his music career .

He met his idol Mike and his wife Natasha

He and his new friends played guitar and sang on the beach , danced to the bonfire , stripped naked and rushed into the waves .

This exciting small musical group angered conservative citizens who tried to deprive them of their rights and alienate them on the tram, filling the musical hymn with surreal fantasy .

They can be in the dark hut playing with musical instruments scattered, they can at night every few days to rule the club scene .

MV mode is fully open

Victor is not surprised to fall into a relationship with Mike's wife Natasha -but this love triangle does not tilt the balance of the story;

As a rock biographical film , the content of this film is exceptionally clean . There are no drugs full of screens, only notes and lyrics . "Soviet musicians must find all the good things in human nature."

The director used loose style techniques, wonderful lens application and precise scene scheduling to arrange scenes of extremely post-modern youth oil paintings .

Woman singing in the rain

Because love and loss flew all the way from Vladivostok, just to rush into the phone booth under the heavy rain to tell passers-by their distress;

A red dress is particularly eye- catching in black and white tones.

All people who live in depression are just like this woman in the rain, released with a melody .

They talk, write songs, record, and name the band ;

Mike still know how to take care of his life , Victor in the way music is gradually on the right track.

And the following lively music album cover tribute , reminds me of the way of paying tribute to classic movies in [Me and Earl and the Dying Girl] .

The picture above [Shengxia] pays tribute to "Who Band", the picture below [Me and Earl and the Dying Girl] "Sock Orange"

They adore and look up to these bands, and they do their best to become the same musicians .

They also want to hear the children singing a song they wrote in the corridors ; courage and talent , with their run to the sea , took them across the street , took them on the stage -

They are ready.

At the last moment, Victor appeared in front of the audience wearing a black eyeliner

For most of the film, he is a shy teenager wearing a simple T-shirt jacket .

This new look accompanies him to the top of life -to become a god ? Oh, there is only one god in the world.

On the eve of the disintegration of the Soviet Union , he led countless followers with dreams of "change" into the paradise of rock and roll .

Fate is ill-fated, may you hold your free soul tightly

The story of this film is based on the early life experience of Victor Cui, the lead singer of the great Eastern European rock band "Kino" (Кино, meaning "movie, image") and "Godfather of Soviet Rock" Victor Cui before becoming famous. .

His band is the history of Russian music 's most popular bands on one of the most influential and music.

Choi is a descendant of Korean immigrants . He was born and raised in Leningrad and began writing songs at the age of seventeen ;

Considered to be one of the pioneers of Russian rock, he promoted this genre throughout the Soviet Union

The band's most popular period even triggered a "Kinomania" effect similar to the global wave of "Beatlemania" among Beatles fans .

In 1990, 28-year-old of his famous Luzhniki Stadium held its last concert shortly after due to a car accident accident in Latvia unfortunate death .

Until now, Cui still has a large number of loyal followers in many countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and so on.

Fans’ spontaneous condolences were taken two days after Choi’s death, with his name written on the wall and the symbol of peace and anti-war painted.

During his career, Cui has devoted himself to voicing for political change . His lyrics and his influence have been sung by the Russian people to this day.

In the 1970s and eighties , rock is mainly confined to Leningrad underground movement ; the support of the government of Moscow pop stars in the rankings come out on top and get the most exposure, but rock and roll is not subject to time The government welcomes that rock bands receive almost no funding and are rarely exposed by the media.

The Leningrad Rock Club is one of the few public places where rock bands are allowed to perform . Cui and his friends, in order to perform, tossed between various apartments and underground concerts , and finally came to Moscow , met the well-known musician and the lead singer of the "Aquarium" band Boris Glebinshkov . His talents were helped by Boris and he formed a band .

Choi and his first wife Marianne

The fragments of Cui 's life selected in this film are a period when he has not been in close contact with politics as later, and portrays a relatively peaceful course.

His idol, Mike Nomenko , is one of the founding bands of the Russian rock movement and the lead singer of the outstanding blues rock band "Zoopark" in the Soviet Union .

The [summer] forming the basis of the film, as well as some from Mike's wife Natasha memoirs .

Mike and Natasha

When this highly anticipated documentary premiered in Cannes , director Kirill Sherebrennikov was under house arrest at home and was unable to participate in the event; he was banned by the government like Iranian director Jaffa Panahi .

In August last year, Serebrennikov was accused of “misappropriating public funds” and was forced to interrupt the filming in the last few days. This news immediately made headlines and caused a sensation. This incident and Serebrenni Cove's previous works alluded to the political situation .

On the red carpet in Cannes , the creators who came to the scene also publicly supported the director and opposed the act of house arrest .

[盛夏] The crew at the Cannes Film Festival

"There are so many rumors, there is only one truth."

Producer Ilya Stewart said that in Serebrennikov 's rock and roll, political factors are secondary . The focus of this film is to tell the story of rock and roll as a "marginal" and "subculture" at that time . The presence.

Rock is inherently political, and it can even be said to be the most political music-but the rock in [Shengxia] is about purity , about rebellion , about the spirit of the times . It is about freedom, love, culture, and generational change . "This this movie is the pride of Russia " .

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  • Reese 2022-04-23 07:04:30

    2.5 Rock doesn't understand me, and movies don't like me either. Although the inclination is different, the essence of the existing problems is similar to that of the above. They are all unrestrained displays after weaving the effect, and the advantages of the technology are still not fully utilized (except for the opening paragraph). I don’t just watch the scenes when watching movies Scheduled. The overall look and feel is quite incongruous, only the music has no emotions.

  • Troy 2022-04-23 07:04:30

    When I watched it without subtitles before, I was moved by its exquisite visual narration. Unfortunately, this is the best opening of the whole film. However, the film is still very interesting in form, whether it is inserting Mekas-style home videos, Funny hand-drawn animations, or jumping into the screen like Keaton, are very expressive. They have already played to the extreme in presenting a state of rock that transcends politics. Create your own history with the history of rock~