Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends

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.

• Ioana GrigoreDirector
• Ioana GrigoreWriter

• Leo FeiginSelf
• Lora DenisenkoSelf
• Alex KanSelf
• Ioana GrigoreSelf
• Cecil TaylorSelf (archive footage)
• Sergei KuryokhinSelf (archive footage)
• Vladimir ChekasinSelf (archive footage)
• Vladimir TarasovSelf (archive footage)
• Vyacheslav GanelinSelf (archive footage)
• Carolyn HumeSelf
• Paul MaySelf