Leningrad Cowboys - Global Balalaika Show(2003)
10 years after Total Balalaika Show (1994) Leningrad Cowboys and Red Army Chorus return to the Senate Square with UMO and various international performers.
10 years after Total Balalaika Show (1994) Leningrad Cowboys and Red Army Chorus return to the Senate Square with UMO and various international performers.
A 57 minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a number of US Rock songs sung in English (like "Sweet Home, Alabama") as well as more traditional Russian songs like the "Volga Boatman".
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.
Der im bürgerlichen Leben nicht zurechtkommende Musiker Zombie aus Helsinki verfällt immer mehr dem Alkohol und setzt sich schließlich, straffällig geworden, nach Istanbul ab, wo ihn ein Freund aufstöbert, aber nicht aus seiner Lethargie hochreißen kann.
Irgendwo in der Tundra, im Niemandsland, haust die schlechteste Rock ‘n’ Roll-Band der Welt, perfekt gestylt, doch ohne Publikum und ohne die geringste Chance auf kommerziellen Erfolg: die Leningrad Cowboys. Sie beschließen, ihren Nationalstolz zu begraben und in die Vereinigten Staaten zu gehen, wo die Leute “jeden Mist fressen”. Dieser Film erzählt die Geschichte ihrer Reise über den Ozean und durch den Kontinent, eine Geschichte von verrufenen Kneipen und anständigen Leuten im Hinterhof der Hamburger-Nation.
A member of the rock band Leningrad Cowboys escapes from prison and starts looking for his girlfriend.
Film aus der Proletarischen Trilogie des finnischen Regisseurs Aki Kaurismäki. Müllwagenfahrer Nikander und die arbeitslose Supermarktkassiererin Ilona verlieben sich im regnerischen Helsinki ineinander. Wie in so vielen Dramen Kaurismäkis spielt auch hier die Kulisse der verregneten finnischen Hauptstadt eine ganz besondere Rolle.
Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren. In this 1986 send-up, Rock'y, played by Silu Seppala, goes head to head with Soviet Igor (Sakari Kuosmanen) and loses.
Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a single confrere, Pekka. Collectively the Franks and Pekka are unhappy with the perceived oppression they face in their district of Helsinki, Kallio, and decide to move to another, Eira, imagining it to be an unspoiled place where people can live lives of dignity. The journey is an ironic one given that both districts are not so far apart. In this spirit, their journey across the city takes on epic proportions with each of the travellers gradually falling by the wayside due to such travails as marriage, work, and death. In its entirety the film is a wry discussion of humanity within a system that regards humans as subservient components.