The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home (1989)

A documentary about Boris Grebenshikov, frontman of the legendary Russian art-rock band Akvarium ("Аквариум"). It was filmed as part of promo campaign for his own first album released in English and recorded with Eurythmics.

Date of release
1989-01-01
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Documentary, Music
Director
Michael Apted

Casting

Interesting facts

The Long Way Home is a feature documentary by Michael Apted about the odyssey of Soviet underground rock hero Boris Grebenshchikov to the West in 1988 to record an album for CBS Records and bring it back home in the early, optimistic days of Glasnost. It was financed by Granada TV and CBS Music Entertainment and finished in 1989.

Background and development

Steve Lawrence began developing a documentary about Grebenshchikov and the making of his CBS album after filming him for his 1987 MTV documentary about Soviet underground rock called Tell Tchaikovsky The News: Rock in Russia. With support from Boris's US managers, Marina Albee and Ken Schaffer of Belka International, he and cinematographer Peter Gilbert filmed with Boris in New York City and LA during this first trip to America in December 1987,…

In January 1988, British filmmaker and journalist Jo Durden-Smith met Grebenshchikov in Leningrad and subsequently proposed to Michael Apted that they make a documentary about Boris and his upcoming album project. Apted flew to Leningrad from the UK and met with Boris. He was eager to direct the film.

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