Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

• Leningrad Cowboys Leningrad Cowboys
• Matti Pellonpää: Moses / Vladimir
• André Wilms Lazar / Johnson / Elijah
• Jacques Blanc: possession of "Bingo Parlour "

The Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (English Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses) is a comedy of Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki from the year 1994. It is the sequel to the film Leningrad Cowboys Go America.

Action

The Russian band Leningrad Cowboys, who once found refuge in Mexico and there for years enjoyed success is financially in the end. During an appearance in New York they meet their former despotic manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses and once again takes command. Under his leadership, it is to go back home to Siberia. Since Moses stole the nose of the Statue of Liberty from the U.S. before departure, the Leningrad Cowboys are tracked on their chaotic journey home by an agent of the American intelligence service.

Criticism

"Fader second infusion of a thin story, the highlights are sparse in photography and the oblique musical performances. "

Background

The film, which is designed like its predecessor than comedic road movie parodies and satirizes various classic films, including John Huston's The Bible, its pathetic and religious fervor is taken by the figure of Moses on the grain.

The Leningrad Cowboys Go America still fictional and invented by Aki Kaurismäki band whose performer her film roles took as a model to establish a real existing group with the same name, in 1994 during the shoot of Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses already a well known and numerically greatly increasing Bigband, had released four albums in the meantime and rotated with Aki Kaurismäki 1992 two music videos.