“The Secret History of Soviet Space-Age Electronic Music”
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.
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Elena Tikhonova Director · Dominik Spritzendorfer Director Michael Palm Editor
First release April 25, 2013 · Produced in Austria, Russia · Original title Электро Москва
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Austria · Russia
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Original title
Электро Москва
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Switzerland · April 25, 2013
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No release date listed for United States.
Australia
October 13, 2013 · Adelaide Film Festival
Austria
June 12, 2013 · Digital
Canada
October 18, 2013 · Antimatter Film Festival
France
July 3, 2013 · FID Marseille International Film Festival
Germany
October 29, 2013 · DOK Leipzig International Film Festival
Poland
July 19, 2013 · New Horizons Film Festival
Russia
December 11, 2013
Sweden
January 28, 2014 · Göteborg International Film Festival
United Kingdom
June 12, 2013 · Theatrical
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