Leningrad Cowboys Go America

feature film, musical, comedy, Finland, Sweden, 1989

DIRECTED BY: Aki Kaurismäki

Leningrad Cowboys Go America

CAST:
Matti Pellonpää (Vladimir,
menadžer),
Sakke Järvenpää,
Heikki Keskinen,
Pimme Korhonen

SCRIPT:
Sakke Järvenpää,
Aki Kaurismäki,
Mato Valtonen

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Timo Salminen

MUSIC:
Mauri Sumén

EDITING:
Raija Talvio

Synopsis:
This is a road movie that follows the Leningrad Cowboys, a group of eight (actually, the guitarist is a frozen body) Finnish musicians who, together with their manager, decide to go to America and begin their music career there. Hoping for immediate glory and fortune in the Promised Land, they buy an old Cadillac (Jim Jarmusch has a cameo role as the salesman) and begin their tour across America.

color, 79'

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