Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Leningrad Cowboys Go America is a 1989 road movie by Finnish film director Aki Kaurismki about the adventures of a fictional Russian rock band Leningrad Cowboys, consisting of members from the Finnish rock band the Sleepy Sleepers, augmented with additional musicians that travels to the United States to become famous. The title came from the Marx Brothers film Go West 1940. After the film was released, the fictional band transformed into a real band, complete with ludicrous hairstyles.

The Leningrad Cowboys, a band with footlong quiff hairstyles and long Winklepicker shoes to match, are seeking success in Siberia, but nobody seems to like their music, except for the mute village idiot, Igor Kari Vnnen. Thwarted by a lack of local commercial potential, they are encouraged to move to America, for people will buy anything there. They depart for New York, bringing with them a band member who had frozen the previous night while practicing outside.They arrive at the CBGB bar in Manhattan. An agent offers them a gig at a wedding in Mexico and recommends that they change their musical style to rock and roll. They buy a used 1975 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 Limousine, strap the coffin carrying their frozen band member onto the roof and set off to earn their way through the Deep South, adapting their musical style to suit local tastes at each new location. All the while they are being driven on and exploited by their money and food hoarding manager Vladimir Matti Pellonp, who has a seemingly unlimited supply of beer in the icefilled coffin. Meanwhile, Igor, who stowed away on the plane, follows the band by his own means of transportation. When he finally catches up with them, they appoint him as their road manager. ........

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