Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends

Overview

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.

Directed by Ioana Grigore

Top cast

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Leo Feigin

Self

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Lora Denisenko

Self

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Alex Kan

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Ioana Grigore

Self

Cecil Taylor

Self (archive footage)

Sergei Kuryokhin

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Chekasin

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Tarasov

Self (archive footage)

Vyacheslav Ganelin

Self (archive footage)

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Carolyn Hume

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Paul May

Self

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