Leto (2018) on Netflix
Leningrad, summer 1981. Nineteen-year-old Viktor meets Mike, frontman of a popular band, and Mike's girlfriend Natasha. The city's underground rock scene performs in a state-permitted club.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb7.2/108,613 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes78%
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Plot summary
The Leningrad Rock Club gives the city's rock musicians one of the few stages the state allows, and in the summer of 1981 it draws a crowd of them. Mike fronts one of its more popular older bands, and his partner Natasha stays close to him. Viktor, nineteen, is quiet and gifted with melody, with a strange way of turning a lyric. The musicians live frugally, their indulgences creative rather than material. Around the three move the players who pass in and out of their lives, while the club takes shape and Kino's first album is recorded. A narrator called Skeptic cuts in to recast the club as hedonistic and dangerous, and the music swings between stage performances and sudden music-video flights. Mike and the other rockers seize their moment to defy the bureaucrats and play to audiences.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Leto (2018)
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- Director Kirill Serebrennikov was arrested on fraud charges and placed under house arrest during the shoot in 2017, yet finished the film by February 2018 by working on a computer with no internet connection and completing unfinished scenes from his notes and earlier rehearsals.
- Musician Boris Grebenshchikov publicly criticized the film on 15 February 2018, saying the script was "a lie from beginning to end."
- Alexei Rybin, one of the founders of the band Kino, criticized the script and forbade the use of his image in the film.
