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Elektro Moskva

2013-06-12

89 mins

The Plot

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.

Cast and Crew

Лев Термен

Лев Термен

Станислав Крейчи

Станислав Крейчи

Алексей Ильиных

Алексей Ильиных

Владимир Кузьмин

Владимир Кузьмин

Leon Theremin

Leon Theremin

Himself (archive footage)

Alexei Borisov

Alexei Borisov

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