
Sergei Kuryokhin
Sound
Biography
Soviet and Russian avant-garde musician, composer, screenwriter and actor. In his youth, Kuryokhin was a keyboard player in several Leningrad rock bands and played in the jazz ensemble of Anatoly Vapirov, and in 1981 he released his first record abroad. In the 1980s, he took part in the recording of several Aquarium albums. In 1984, Kuryokhin for the first time gathered the Pop Mechanics group, which was a non-permanent concert line-up, in which musicians, singers and artists of different schools and styles could participate in the show, and Kuryokhin himself was the only permanent participant and ideological leader of which. Theatrical concert performances of "Pop Mechanics" included elements of performance, they could include insert numbers, performances by circus artists, fashion shows. Kuryokhin is also the author of music for two dozen films. Throughout his life, Kuryokhin was known as a skilled author of practical jokes and hoaxes. Kuryokhin's performance in the TV program "The Fifth Wheel", which gave rise to the media virus "Lenin is a mushroom", was the most famous. In 1995, Kuryokhin joined the National Bolshevik Party.
Known For

The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town". In a metaphorical and grotesque form, the film conveys the history of Russia from the calling of the Varangians until the end of the 20th century. The film traces the change of the “chiefs” of the county town of Glupov, which differ in varying degrees of tyranny and the corresponding total number of “killed” city residents. The heads of the city easily guess the former heads of the Russian state and the USSR.
Ono

Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered. Once there, he takes up the struggle against bureaucracy emanating from the castle.
The Castle

A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.
Buster's Bedroom

Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
Over the Dark Water

Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa. Reading it, Vladimir realizes that he became an owner the supernatural gift – he can kill people by his own will.
The Initiated

An art film about the life of Soviet creatives in the late 1980s.
Broken Light

The film "Rock Beyond" is dedicated to Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshchikov and Sergei Kuryokhin, who became the Main Heroes of Russian rock in the 1980s and 1990s. The authors strive to show the atmosphere and energy of those years, as well as the opinion of modern young people about Rock culture before they were born.
Rock Beyond

Old scientist Bashkirtsev is very surprised to discover the possible contacts with other world...
House Under the Starry Skies

When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybody believe that the main character was in love with her. He escapes from many difficulties in order to find his beloved who also became trapped in a luxurious villa with some strange relatives. The people inside villa are vampires, they were called upyri in those days in Russia. They suck blood of anyone who comes to see them. The young man too much in love so he looses his head and goes directly to the nest of vampires.
Bloodsuckers

The film details the independent electronic scene of the 80s and 90s in the industrial city of Izhevsk (USSR). Today so called "Izhevsk electronic wave" is an important underground phenomenon in the history of modern Russian music. Appearing: "СД", "Стук бамбука в XI часов", "Красивая пришла", Rodesia, "Самцы дронта", "Организация сна", "Новые испанские кролики", Velvet & Velvet Dolls, "Вторая африканская охота", Lancer, Virgo Intacta, Birdwood, Digital Meet, "Юка".
The Drowned

The hero of the film is in prison, and they are trying to knock out a testimony from him where there is a lot of money - in which country, city, bank, bank account ... And the smart, handsome and courageous Abdulov brazenly and insultingly mocks the investigator and reads Onegin in his cell "a Vietnamese cellmate giving him a massage. Then the senior investigator, the wife of the Duma deputy, who does not feel love for her husband, personally undertakes for him.
Prison Romance

A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
Mister Designer

Documentary — featuring both interviews and live footage — about underground rock music in Russia, during the last years of the Perestroika.
Rock

A parody of the clichés and techniques of the Soviet adventurous comedy genre of the 1950s-1970s. This is a story about three heroes who return to their home city after escaping from prison. Truthfulness and sincerity help the characters find their place in the changed system.
Prisoners of Fortune

The film tells about the engineer Gorelikov, who, together with his disabled friend, opens a salon with computers for children and students. And suddenly they are attacked by a gang of racketeers.
Dude - Water Winner

Vocational school student, who took upon himself the guilt of another for a large sum of money, finds himself in a very difficult situation. None of his “friends” even tries to come to his aid. He only finds one way out for himself, - a death...
Scream for Help

Vitya is a teenage rock-music and motorbike fanatic whose father is arrested for embezzlement. Vitya is devastated, and in this state of shock he falls prey to a supposed mystic called Cassius.
Tragedy, Rock Style

The film is based on the concert of "Pop Mechanics" under the direction of Sergey Kuryokhin.
Dialogues

A screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about three sisters yearning for a better life.
Three Sisters

A satiric comedy which dissects the iconography of the 'Soviet Hero'. Original footage of a propaganda film from 1941 is the starting point for this parody of the ideological cliches of Soviet cinema. It follows the story of a Russian crew across the North Pole.