Shorts2Features: Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Shorts2Features: Leningrad Cowboys Go America

classified 15

part of Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival 2017

Film

Please note: This was screened in Sept 2017

Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Cast
Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää
Details
79 mins, 1990, Finland / Sweden

This hilarious road movie follows the misadventures of the worst rock and roll band in the world, the Leningrad Cowboys. When a promoter in their native Siberia, stunned by the band’s lack of talent, advises them to try their luck in America they head for New York. Having learned English en-route on the plane and sporting shades, outsize quiffs and outrageously long winkle-pickers, they are passed off as Americans. Jim Jarmusch, in a cameo role as a shifty car salesman, sells them an old Cadillac in which they head south with their frozen bass player and a coffin full of beer.


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