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Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends
Ioana Grigore / România / 2024 / 70 minute
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Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends
In 1973, Leonid Samovilovich 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. It contains one of the most courageous acts in recent music history, from the Ganelin Trio, Sergei Kuryokhin and Pop Mechanica to Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. It is the story of a man who single-handedly liberated an entire generation of illegal artists, musical misfits and Leningrad cowboys. It is the jazz story of modern times.
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A dynamic and invigorating documentary about music, the USSR, the KGB, the BBC, and Leo, an octogenarian with a passion for jazz. At 83, Leo has dedicated his entire life to promoting experimental jazz. In 1973, he was forced by the KGB to leave the USSR and flee to Israel, and from there, he sought refuge in London and joined the BBC. In 1979, he founded an independent avant-garde music company and began collecting tapes from around the world. After 42 years of activity, Leo Records boasts some of the most renowned jazz names worldwide and a warehouse full of thousands of highly valuable but unsellable records.
Director
Ioana Grigore
Producer
Marcian Lazăr
Production House
Axel Film
Editor
Cristian Georgescu
Sound
Matei Vasilache
Cinematographer
Paul Chirilă, Ioana Grigore
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