Rock

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

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the Beatles. He arranged their first live TV appearances on a local show in Manchester and watched as the Fab Four phenomenon swept the world. Twenty-five years later while making films in Russia, Woodhead became aware of how, even though they were never able to play in the Soviet Union, the Beatles' legend had soaked into the lives of a generation of kids. This film meets the Soviet Beatles generation...

BG - Live From Studio De L'Ermitage

In an exclusive concert for VotVot, the master visits the most diverse periods of his legendary discography.

Let's rock-n-roll

Documentary film for german TV about rock music in Soviet Union. Featuring: "Мистер Твистер", "Ва-Банкъ", "Чудо-Юдо", "Женская Болезнь", "Ночной Проспект", "Аквариум", "Ноль", "Аукцыон", "Телевизор", "АВИА", "Звуки Му". In 1989 an album with recorded soundtrack was released.

Dialogues

Soviet Rock

Documentary for Finnish television about Spring Rhythms ("Весенние ритмы") — one of the first official rock festivals in USSR. It took place in Tbilisi, from 8 to 16 March of 1980. The festival was organised by famous music journalist Artemiy Troitskiy with the cooperation of Georgian government. The "Аквариум" band was taken off scene because of their provocative conduct. In 1981 the official tracklist album was released.

Bashlachev. The Flight of Death

A documentary film about the life and early death of Russian singer and songwriter Aleksandr Bashlachev through the eyes of his friends, family members and other representatives of rock music scene.

The House Concert Of Boris Grebenshikov

Home concert by Boris Grebenshchikov from London, where the musician was caught in quarantine. The audience will hear both time-tested favorite hits and new songs. Kvartirnik as a format of musical direction appeared in the period of the USSR, when musicians gathered in the apartments of friends and arranged improvised concerts, mainly in the rock style. Boris Grebenshchikov, one of the founders of the format, together with other then – beginning performers, and today – already legends of Russian rock-arranged apartment parties and sang his...