Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends

Name: Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends
Director: Ioana Grigore
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-11-01
Duration: 70 min
Cast: Leo Feigin, Lora Denisenko, Alex Kan, Ioana Grigore, Cecil Taylor

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2024 · 70 min · Documentary

Overview

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.

Directed by Ioana Grigore

Cast

Leo Feigin — Self
Lora Denisenko — Self
Alex Kan — Self
Ioana Grigore — Self
Cecil Taylor — Self (archive footage)