Sergey Letov
Acting
Biography
Sergey Fyodorovich Letov (Russian: Сергей Фёдорович Летов, born September 24, 1956), is a Russian musician and composer, known for his improvisational style. He is the founder of the recording label Pentagram. He has collaborated with numerous jazz, avant-garde, modern classical, rock and electronic music artists, including his younger brother Egor Letov, composer Sergey Kuryokhin, and cult Soviet art punk band DK. Letov has written music for movies and plays, collaborating with Russian, Italian and Austrian theatres, the German non-profit cultural association Goethe-Institut, and the Moscow Institute of Journalism and Literature. (Wiki)
Known For
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
Subjective feeling of the natural talent of the participants in the film is combined with the author's reflection on the nature of talent and suicide.
Heptagram
The film details the early years of the legendary Siberian Punk/Rock group 'Гражданская Оборона' (Grazhdanskaya Oborona), and its frontman, Egor Letov.
I Don't Believe in Anarchy
The poet wants to write a poem, but the heat and flies interfere with him. Everything turns into phantasmagoria and absurdity, leading the poet to an important thought.
Zashlo
The world's first documentary about Siberia's punk rock scene in the 1980s. It was a phenomenon of those times that this music existed thousands of miles away from the movement's epicentres in New York and London.
Traces in the Snow
Experimental short.
And So On...
A musical film featuring Sergei Letov's band "Tri O".