<p>Punky biopic about the underground music scene in Leningrad just before Perestroika, based on the early years of pop icon Viktor Tsoï and his legendary band Kino.&nbsp;In the early 1980s, he befriends the charismatic singer of the band Zoopark, who has managed to pick up rare records by Bowie, Blondie and T. Rex.&nbsp;They decide to shake things up with their own performances, but for now their young audience is allowed only to move their feet to the rhythm.&nbsp;With humour and guts, the band members tackle censorship, even if only in their imagination.</p>

<p>In lush black-and-white,&nbsp;<strong>Leto&nbsp;</strong>captures the energy of a long summer: making music together in cramped apartments and cautious rebellion, alternating with wildly scratched images and surrealistic interludes of train passengers singing along to&nbsp;<em>Psycho Killer</em>&nbsp;by Talking Heads.&nbsp;Filmmaker Serebrennikov (<strong>The Student</strong>) was placed under house arrest at the end of filming <strong>Leto</strong>.&nbsp;He was still able to finish the editing at home.</p>
