Leningrad Cowboys Go America
And this year, too, we'll storm out onto the green meadow and indulge in the balmy June nights at the HfG Open Air Cinema.
This year, instead of being split over two weekends, you can expect one weekend, you can expect 5 days of festival atmosphere with music, short films, drinks and delicious food and, of course, some of the most beautiful the most beautiful things that the seventh art has produced in the last 100 years. has produced in the last 100 years.
- Music, Comedy
- Finland, Sweden
- 1989
- Director: Aki Kaurismäki
- 79 min
- 35mm
- Original version with English subtitles with Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakari Kuosmanen
Somewhere in the tundra, in no man's land, there is the worst rock 'n' roll band in the world, perfectly styled, but without an audience and without the slightest chance of commercial success: the Leningrad Cowboys. They decide to bury their national pride and head for the United States, where people will "eat any crap". This movie tells the story of their journey across the ocean and across the continent, a story of disreputable pubs and decent people in the backyard of the Hamburg nation.
Loan of the film print with the kind support of the Finnish Film Foundation.
☞ Event starts at 20:00 with DJ, bar and much more.
☞ Pre-program from 21:15 with short films in glorious 16 mm projection
☞ Movie starts at 21:30
Information about the HFG Open-Air Cinema:
Since 2019, the team from Kino im Blauen Salon has been organizing an an open-air cinema at the Hochschule für Gestaltung. On the lawn in front of the HfG, there is a week of great films with a supporting program, drinks, snacks, movie puzzles, a competition and much more.
The festival is organized entirely on a voluntary basis by students and alumni of the HfG: From the film programming, the procurement of film licenses and ordering film prints, setting up the technology, screen and projection screen and projection, the scenography of the event, the graphic graphic design, the organization of the bar, which provides for the physical the planning of the supporting program with silent film soundtrack, DJs ... The team from Kino im Blauen Salon goes all out.
The special thing about our festival is that all films are still projected on 35 mm film. film. Film classics, cult films, but also forgotten gems but also forgotten gems from all over the world, from national and international and international archives, but also from the HfG collection, which contains which houses some of the treasures of film history.
This year the festival is already in its 5th round.