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Director:

Aki Kaurismäki

Writers:

Sakke Järvenpää (story)
Aki Kaurismäki (screenplay)
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Release Date:

24 March 1989 (Finland) more

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Music more

Plot:

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune... more | add synopsis

User Comments:

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Matti Pellonpää ... Vladimir (Manager)
Kari Väänänen ... Igor (Village Idiot)
Sakke Järvenpää ... The Leningrad Cowboys
Heikki Keskinen ... The Leningrad Cowboys
Pimme Korhonen ... The Leningrad Cowboys
Sakari Kuosmanen ... The Leningrad Cowboys
Puka Oinonen ... The Leningrad Cowboys
Silu Seppälä ... The Leningrad Cowboys
Mauri Sumén ... The Leningrad Cowboys
Mato Valtonen ... The Leningrad Cowboys
Pekka Virtanen ... The Leningrad Cowboys
Nicky Tesco ... Lost Cousin
Olli Tuominen ... Siberian Svengali
Kari Laine ... Siberian Chauffeur
Jatimatic Ohlstrom ... Father of the Cowboys
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Additional Details

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

Finland | Sweden

Language:

Finnish | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Filming Locations:

Del Rio, Texas, USA more

Company:

Esselte Video more


Fun Stuff

Goofs:

Continuity: In the opening scene, and throughout the movie, the frozen bass player's bass guitar is some cheap off-brand guitar. But when he thaws out and gets up to play at the end of the movie, it's a Fender. more

Movie Connections:

Followed by Global Balalaika Show (2003) (V) more


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28 out of 33 people found the following comment useful.
We were in the movie., 1 April 2006
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Author: colonelrobert from United States

My wife Irene, and myself, (Robert Morris) owned "The Lonesome Bar" in Memphis where part of the movie was shot. This is where they performed "Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay" and my buddy, George Kunkle played the banjo and sang one of his songs. The barber was Bill Robertson, who was a real barber next door to the bar. He passed away shortly after the film came out, but it allowed him to sing in a international film.

The whole cast and crew was wonderful! We played pool and got drunk every night after shooting. One night we sat on the curb out front and took turns picking and singing our favorite songs. That was a experience I will never forget.

We hope you like the movie, as we will never forget it.

Colonel Robert morris

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