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Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends

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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.

Featured Crew

Ioana Grigore
Director
Ioana Grigore
Writer
Cristian Georgescu
Editor
Marcian Lazar
Producer
Matei Vasilache
Sound Designer
Paul Chirila
Director of Photography
Ioana Grigore
Director of Photography
Iulia Weiss
Executive Producer

Cast

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Cecil Taylor
Self (archive footage)
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Sergei Kuryokhin
Self (archive footage)
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Vladimir Chekasin
Self (archive footage)
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Vladimir Tarasov
Self (archive footage)
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Vyacheslav Ganelin
Self (archive footage)