Leningrad Cowboys Go America
- Matti Pellonpää as Vladimir, her manager
- Kari Väänänen as Igor, the village idiot
- Jim Jarmusch as a used car dealer
Leningrad Cowboys Go America is a road movie of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki from the year 1989.
Action
The film tells the story of the Russian band Leningrad Cowboys in the home is not successful and the Council gets to go to America and play there. Finally, her journey through numerous hotels, bars and pubs, they end up at a wedding in Mexico. The audience is enthusiastic and the band creates here after countless failures in the U.S. at last the expected breakthrough.
Background
A guest role took over Jim Jarmusch, who sells the musicians for their tour a black Cadillac. In Germany the film on television has been run only in the original language with subtitles. The original notional Leningrad Cowboys, which were partially played by members of the Finnish punk rock band Sleepy Sleepers, stayed together after the filming under this name, and enjoyed great success as a live band.
Continuation
With Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses appeared in 1994 a sequel, which is directly linked to the action of the first film.