Leningrad cowboys

[Emily Saunders]

There was an actual full-length movie I recall watching in my  
undergraduate days called, I think, Leningrad Cowboys Go America.  The  
plot line is that there are these bunch of brothers? who all have long  
pompadours and long narrow feet (shoes?0 and they have a rock band.   
One of the brothers dies playing in his guitar (or balalaika?) in the  
snow in winter and so in his honor they decide to go on tour in the  
U.S.  So they travel around with their brother in a coffin on top of a  
car all the while pursued by the black sheep of the family -- the one  
guy with a small pompadour and normal sized feet -- who just wants to  
be part of the club.  It is a truly weird film, but if you liked the  
uTube snip, you gotta watch this flick.  Imdb.com has a review that  
calls it the Finnish answer to Spinal Tap.

Emily Saunders

On Jan 27, 2007, at 5:30 AM, Maryna Vinarska wrote:

> Unbelievable... How come that it has never been broadcast on our TV?  
> So unfair... Eto zh za chto nas tak obdelili?! Za chto nam etu  
> nespravedlivost' zapodeiali?!
> Does it mean that the first clip is also from those times? I suppose  
> so. It can't be that these "cowboys" are still wearing the same  
> "snogshibatel'nyi" outfit. I hope that the guys from the same country  
> who won the last Eurovision contest are not going to devote their next  
> masterpiece to any of Russian cities... From the other side... I am  
> absolutely sure that Russian will become popular again and very soon.
> Regards,
> Maryna Vinarska
>
> "Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI]" <anthony.j.vanchu at NASA.GOV> wrote:  
> Just a point of information:  the Leningrad Cowboys and Red Army Choir
> Ensemble performance was from a *1993* Finnish television broadcast...
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Kaladiouk, Anna
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 4:10 PM
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Leningrad cowboys
>
> I esche.
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list on behalf of
> Maryna Vinarska
> Sent: Fri 1/26/2007 1:16 PM
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Leningrad cowboys
>
>
>
> Well... it's really something... But they definitely borrowed the idea
> from Verka Serdiuchka. I saw smth like this in "Goluboj Ogoniek" two or
> three years ago. I mean with the Army Choir.  Konec sveta... U
> Serdiuchki teper' konkurenty est'...
> Regards,
> MV
>
> Kristi Groberg  wrote: At 09:17 25.01.2007, you
> wrote:
>> And disturbing in yet a different way is their (the Leningrad  
>> Cowboys')
>
>> rendition of "Sweet Home Alabama with the Red Army Choir:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt2YuLds48k
>
> Thanks, this made my day. I haven't laughed so hard for quite a while.
> The poor Red Army Chorus.
> Kris Groberg
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