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Elektro Moskva

The Secret History of Soviet Space-Age Electronic Music

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Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world's first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB's huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical. They all came into existence as a by-product of a rampant defense industry. Nowadays, those aged and abandoned 'musical coffins', as solidly made as a Kalashnikov, are being recycled and reinterpreted by the post-Soviet generations of musicians, sound collectors and circuit benders. The story of the Soviet synthesizers as an allegory to the everyday life under the Soviet system: nothing works, but you have to make the best out of it. An electronic fairy tale about the inventive spirit of the free mind inside the iron curtain- and beyond.

Directed byElena Tikhonova, Dominik Spritzendorfer

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 29m
Language
RU
Released
June 12, 2013

Featuring

Cast & crew

6 credited
Starring

Лев Термен

Станислав Крейчи

Aleksey Ilinykh

Владимир Кузьмин

Владимир Кузьмин

Leon Theremin

Himself (archive footage)

Alexei Borisov

Alexei Borisov

Creative team
Directed by
Elena Tikhonova
Dominik Spritzendorfer
Written by
Dominik Spritzendorfer
Elena Tikhonova
Produced by
Dominik Spritzendorfer

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