Tsoi

Local title
Tsoi
Title in Russian
Цой
Original title
Tsoi
Director
Alexey Uchitel
Country
Russian Federation, Latvia
Year
2020
Programme
Main programme of Kinoff, Current Waves

15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, 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 – Tsoi’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.

Director
Alexey Uchitel
Screenwriter
Alexandr Gonorovskiy, Savva Minaev, Alexei Uchitel
Cast
Evgeniy Tsyganov, Mariana Spivak, Paulina Andreeva, Igor Vernik
Producer
Alexei Uchitel, Elena Bystrova, Philipp Pastukhov, Pavel Gorin
DoP
Yuriy Klimenko
Music
Faustas Latenas
Production
Rock Films
Runtime
Language
Russian
Subtitles
Estonian, English
Director
Alexey Uchitel

Alexey Uchitel, film director and producer, ROCK FILMS STUDIO. Alexey Uchitel founded Moscow- and Saint Petersburg-based film production company Rock Films in 1991. He has produced more than 30 award winning films that were participants of A-level film festivals. The films produced by Uchitel received nominations for the Golden Globe and have been put forward for nominations for the Oscar. Among these films - The Fool (Ecumenical jury Prize for best film in Locarno), Bite the Dust (Cannes Official program in the section “Special screening”), The Mayor (premiered in Cannes), The Edge (Oscar Long List for the Best Foreign Language Film Nomination), Captive (Best Director in Karlovy Vary, Grand Prix in Cottbus), The Whaler Boy (Best Director’s Award at Venice Days, Venice Film Festival 2020) etc. Alexey Uchitel’s studio Rock Films has been known for its support for first-time directors. Alexey is the President of the Message to Man International Film Festival since 2010.

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