Movie

Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends

2024 1h 10m Released

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.

Cast

L Leo Feigin Self L Lora Denisenko Self A Alex Kan Self I Ioana Grigore Self Cecil Taylor Self (archive footage) Sergei Kuryokhin Self (archive footage)