Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends

2024 · 70 min · Documentary

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.

Director: Ioana Grigore
Writer: Ioana Grigore
Released: November 1, 2024
Language: English

Cast

Leo Feigin
Self
Lora Denisenko
Self
Alex Kan
Self
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)
Carolyn Hume
Self
Paul May
Self

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