Sergei Kuryokhin

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Sergei Kuryokhin

Born 1954-06-16 · Murmansk, RSFSR, USSR

Soviet and Russian avant-garde musician, composer, screenwriter and actor. In his youth, Kuryokhin was a keyboard player in several Leningrad rock bands and played in the jazz ensemble of Anatoly Vapirov, and in 1981 he released his first record abroad. In the 1980s, he took part in the recording of several Aquarium albums. In 1984, Kuryokhin for the first time gathered the Pop Mechanics group, which was a non-permanent concert line-up, in which musicians, singers and artists of different schools and styles could participate in the show, and Kuryokhin himself was the only permanent participant and ideological leader of which. Theatrical concert performances of "Pop Mechanics" included elements of performance, they could include insert numbers, performances by circus artists, fashion shows. Kuryokhin is also the author of music for two dozen films. Throughout his life, Kuryokhin was known as a skilled author of practical jokes and hoaxes. Kuryokhin's performance in the TV program "The Fifth Wheel", which gave rise to the media virus "Lenin is a mushroom", was the most famous. In 1995, Kuryokhin joined the National Bolshevik Party.

Acting credits

Timur Novikov: Zero Object poster
5.7

Timur Novikov: Zero Object positions the late artist Timur Novikov as protagonist in this exploration of underground art from St Petersburg. As well as providing a historical overview of the 1980s-1990s, the film features iconic figures in St Petersburg’s underground scene: cult rocker Victor Tsoi, and artists Georgy Guryanov, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and Sergey ‘Africa’ Bugaev, among others. From beginning to end, it’s a manifesto for personal and artistic freedom in a forbidding political climate.

Timur Novikov: Zero Object

2014

Two Captains II poster
4.6

The beginning of the 20th century. The recklessness of fanatics is pushing humanity towards the abyss. A revolution begins in Russia. Crazy Dr. Farkus induces an orgasm of inanimate matter. White Moroccan dwarfs are becoming active. A second Sun appears in the sky. In this difficult environment, captains selflessly confront the forces of chaos, maintaining the cosmic balance of history.

Two Captains II

1992

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NR

French television documentary which tells the French audience about what rock music was in the Soviet Union. Appearances: band "Кино" Boris Grebenshchikov, Sergey Kuryokhin, band "Секрет", Stas Namin, Artemy Troitsky and Alla Pugacheva.

Rock Around the Kremlin

1985

Nicotine poster
5.5

Mirror film, intellectual game, tribute to Jean-Luc Godard and "Breathless". The narrative plot resumes the transposed history in post-Soviet St. Petersburg.

Nicotine

1993

Prisoners of Fortune poster
9.0

A parody of the clichés and techniques of the Soviet adventurous comedy genre of the 1950s-1970s. This is a story about three heroes who return to their home city after escaping from prison. Truthfulness and sincerity help the characters find their place in the changed system.

Prisoners of Fortune

1993

Tragedy, Rock Style poster
4.7

Vitya is a teenage rock-music and motorbike fanatic whose father is arrested for embezzlement. Vitya is devastated, and in this state of shock he falls prey to a supposed mystic called Cassius.

Tragedy, Rock Style

1989

Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends poster
NR

In 1973, Leonid Samuilovich flees the USSR and lands a job at the BBC in London. Five years later, radio host Alexei Leonidov starts releasing clandestine recordings smuggled from totalitarian countries via intricate cloak-and-dagger operations. Today, 86-year-old music producer Leo Feigin sits on top of over 30.000 LPs, contemplating on the meaning of his work amidst the grim outlook of new Iron Curtains. Leo Records is a symbol of musical resistance against authoritarian regimes and a pioneer of what we now know as avant-garde.

Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends

2024

Dialogues poster
4.0

The film is based on the concert of "Pop Mechanics" under the direction of Sergey Kuryokhin.

Dialogues

1986

Dude - Water Winner poster
3.9

The film tells about the engineer Gorelikov, who, together with his disabled friend, opens a salon with computers for children and students. And suddenly they are attacked by a gang of racketeers.

Dude - Water Winner

1991

Rock Beyond poster
NR

The film "Rock Beyond" is dedicated to Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshchikov and Sergei Kuryokhin, who became the Main Heroes of Russian rock in the 1980s and 1990s. The authors strive to show the atmosphere and energy of those years, as well as the opinion of modern young people about Rock culture before they were born.

Rock Beyond

2021

Bloodsuckers poster
3.9

When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybody believe that the main character was in love with her. He escapes from many difficulties in order to find his beloved who also became trapped in a luxurious villa with some strange relatives. The people inside villa are vampires, they were called upyri in those days in Russia. They suck blood of anyone who comes to see them. The young man too much in love so he looses his head and goes directly to the nest of vampires.

Bloodsuckers

1991

Opening of the Exhibition Renaissance and Resistance poster
NR

Opening of the Exhibition Renaissance and Resistance. State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St.Petersburg, June 1994

Opening of the Exhibition Renaissance and Resistance

1994

Lenin Was a Mushroom poster
NR

Satirical mockumentary by Sergei Kuryokhin and Sergei Sholokhov, trying to prove an absurd sensationalist point - that Vladimir Ilych Lenin was, in fact, a mushroom!

Lenin Was a Mushroom

1991

Over the Dark Water poster
4.8

Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.

Over the Dark Water

1993

Сергей Курёхин – человек, который изменил мир poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Сергей Курёхин – человек, который изменил мир

2012

House Under the Starry Skies poster
3.4

Old scientist Bashkirtsev is very surprised to discover the possible contacts with other world...

House Under the Starry Skies

1991

Broken Light poster
NR

An art film about the life of Soviet creatives in the late 1980s.

Broken Light

1990

The Drowned poster
NR

The film details the independent electronic scene of the 80s and 90s in the industrial city of Izhevsk (USSR). Today so called "Izhevsk electronic wave" is an important underground phenomenon in the history of modern Russian music. Appearing: "СД", "Стук бамбука в XI часов", "Красивая пришла", Rodesia, "Самцы дронта", "Организация сна", "Новые испанские кролики", Velvet & Velvet Dolls, "Вторая африканская охота", Lancer, Virgo Intacta, Birdwood, Digital Meet, "Юка".

The Drowned

2017

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8.0

The movie is an absurdly ironic narrative that reflects the anti-science and anti-American tendencies of recent times.

Insanity Complex

1992

Rock poster
5.9

Documentary — featuring both interviews and live footage — about underground rock music in Russia, during the last years of the Perestroika.

Rock

1988

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