Цой

Цой (2020)

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.

Data di uscita
2020-11-12
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (14)
Durata
1 h 38 min
Generi
Dramma
Regista
Алексей Учитель

Cast

Curiosità

  • Incassi: 26,2 Mln RUB
  • Basato su: Posledniy geroy

Tsoi is a 2020 Russian film directed by Alexei Uchitel, a joint production of Russia, Lithuania, and Latvia. The film tells the story of how a participant in car accident that killed Viktor Tsoi carries the Tsoi's coffin from Jūrmala to Leningrad. Tsoi himself appears only at the beginning of the film, where he immediately dies in a car accident. "There isn't even Tsoi in the Tsoi", said Komsomolskaya Pravda, while a review by Argumenty i Fakty was titled "Tsoi without Tsoi".

Production

Uchitel has previously addressed Tsoi's figure in his works. His filmography includes the documentary films Rock (one of the short stories dedicated to the musician) and The Last Hero, where Uchitel for the first time investigates the reasons behind Tsoi's death. The director calls Tsoi a continuation of that storyline, an assumption of what might have happened in August 1990.

The first mention of the project, then under the working title 47, dates back to 2017. Uchitel delayed production due to problems with his previous film Matilda, so filming began on 8 July 2019. It took place in Saint Petersburg, the Kaliningrad, Pskov oblasts, and Latvia.

Alexander Tsoi, Viktor's son, asked Uchitel to change the characters' names. According to the Uchitel, Igor Vdovin, who works with Kino on the Symphonic KINO project, refused to write music for the film.

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