Sunny Days

The story of the drummer of Kino and the main fashionista of perestroika Leningrad.

French television documentary which tells the French audience about what rock music was in the Soviet Union. Appearances: band "Кино" Boris Grebenshchikov, Sergey Kuryokhin, band "Секрет", Stas Namin, Artemy Troitsky and Alla Pugacheva.

Timur Novikov: Zero Object positions the late artist Timur Novikov as protagonist in this exploration of underground art from St Petersburg. As well as providing a historical overview of the 1980s-1990s, the film features iconic figures in St Petersburg’s underground scene: cult rocker Victor Tsoi, and artists Georgy Guryanov, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and Sergey ‘Africa’ Bugaev, among others. From beginning to end, it’s a manifesto for personal and artistic freedom in a forbidding political climate.

The Soviet rock band Kino's concert at the Olympic Stadium (Olimpiyskiy) in Moscow on May 5th 1990.

The portrait of the creator of the Kino group, consisting of the thoughts and memories of people who loved him, appears before the audience as a musical prophecy of a talented artist about his own life.

Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition.

A young musician falls for a mobster's young mistress.

Remix of the 1988 cult movie "The Needle": Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition. But Moro finds a deadly opponent in "the doctor," the mafia kingpin who is exploiting Dina.

Three young Soviet women encounter a French filmmaker who is planning the first erotic film since the October Revolution.

15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoy, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an accident on a Latvian highway. The bus driver who was involved in the tragic accident will bring his body back to Leningrad. A party of mourners – Tsoy’s wife and her new boyfriend, his mistress, his producer, his young son and an obsessed photographer – are part of the trip back. This is going to be a long trip, the perfect occasion for an agonizing unravelling of love, jealousy, ambition, and greed.

Ryan, a young outsider who has travelled from Hong Kong to London, wanders through the city while addressing the audience directly, transforming the film into an intimate dialogue between performer and viewer. Through fragmented reflections, observational encounters, and moments of self-awareness, Ryan struggles to articulate his place in a world that feels emotionally and culturally distant.

Four music videos of Kino band joined together with a single plot

The concept of the project is to show what a Kino performance can be like in the 21st century, with good modern sound and stage production. Most of the material will be performed as close to the original as possible, but there will also be improvisations and new interpretations. The basis of the program is the real voice of Viktor Tsoi, digitized from the original multi-channel recordings of Kino. The group includes two original bass players of the group from different years, Alexander Titov and Igor Tikhomirov, and the permanent guitarist Yuri Kasparyan.

Concert in Boris Grebenshchikov's communal apartment (Leningrad, May 1986)