Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends (2024)
In 1973, Leonid Samuilovich flees the USSR and lands a job at the BBC in London. Five years later, radio host Alexei Leonidov starts releasing clandestine recordings smuggled from totalitarian countries via intricate cloak-and-dagger operations. Today, 86-year-old music producer Leo Feigin sits on top of over 30.000 LPs, contemplating on the meaning of his work amidst the grim outlook of new Iron Curtains. Leo Records is a symbol of musical resistance against authoritarian regimes and a pioneer of what we now know as avant-garde.
Director: Ioana Grigore
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Leo Feigin as Self |
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Lora Denisenko as Self |
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Alex Kan as Self |
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Ioana Grigore as Self |
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Cecil Taylor as Self (archive footage) |
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Sergei Kuryokhin as Self (archive footage) |
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Vladimir Chekasin as Self (archive footage) |
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Vladimir Tarasov as Self (archive footage) |
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Vyacheslav Ganelin as Self (archive footage) |
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Carolyn Hume as Self |
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Paul May as Self |
| Directing | Ioana Grigore | Director |
| Writing | Ioana Grigore | Writer |
| Editing | Cristian Georgescu | Editor |
| Production | Marcian Lazar | Producer |
| Sound | Matei Vasilache | Sound Designer |
| Camera | Paul Chirila | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Ioana Grigore | Director of Photography |
| Production | Iulia Weiss | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ioana Grigore | Executive Producer |
