Viktor Tsoy
Also Known As: Виктор Цой, Віктор Цой, Viktor Tsoi, Цой Виктор Робертович
Biography: Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Ви́ктор Ро́бертович Цой; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990) was a Soviet and Russian singer and songwriter who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and musically influential bands in the history of Russian music. Born and raised in Leningrad, Tsoi started writing songs as a teenager. Throughout his career, Tsoi contributed a plethora of musical and artistic works, including ten albums. After Kino appeared and performed in the 1987 Soviet film Assa, the band's popularity sparked, triggering a period referred to as "Kinomania", and leading to Tsoi's leading role in the 1988 Kazakh new wave art film The Needle. In 1990, after their high-profile concert at the Luzhniki Stadium, Tsoi briefly relocated to Latvia with bandmate Yuri Kasparyan to work on the band's next album. Two months after the concert, Tsoi died in a car collision. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Russian rock and is credited with popularizing the genre throughout the Soviet Union. He retains a devoted following in many ex-Soviet countries, such as Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Lithuania, where he is known as one of the most influential and popular people in the history of Russian music. (Wikipedia)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
Adult: No
Birthday: June 21, 1962
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 15, 1990
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Rock Beyond
Overview: The film "Rock Beyond" is dedicated to Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshchikov and Sergei Kuryokhin, who became the Main Heroes of Russian rock in the 1980s and 1990s. The authors strive to show the atmosphere and energy of those years, as well as the opinion of modern young people about Rock culture before they were born.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-08-28
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The Needle
Overview: Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-09-16
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Tsoi
Overview: 15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an accident on a Latvian highway. The bus driver who was involved in the tragic accident will bring his body back to Leningrad. A party of mourners – Tsoi’s wife and her new boyfriend, his mistress, his producer, his young son and an obsessed photographer – are part of the trip back. This is going to be a long trip, the perfect occasion for an agonizing unravelling of love, jealousy, ambition, and greed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-11-12
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Assa
Overview: ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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Виктор Цой - Концерт в Донецке. Фестиваль МузЭко 1990
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Original Language: ru
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Просто хочешь ты знать
Overview: Concert-film about the work of Russian musician Viktor Tsoy.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-12-14
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The Needle Remix
Overview: Remix of the 1988 cult movie "The Needle": Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition. But Moro finds a deadly opponent in "the doctor," the mafia kingpin who is exploiting Dina.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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Sex & Perestroika
Overview: Three young Soviet women encounter a French filmmaker who is planning the first erotic film since the October Revolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-10-10
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The End of a Vacation
Overview: Four music videos of Kino band joined together with a single plot
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-06-01
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Yahha
Overview: A kaleidoscopic living diary of the underground rock scene in Leningrad just before perestroika.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-01-02
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Last Hero
Overview: The portrait of the creator of the Kino group, consisting of the thoughts and memories of people who loved him, appears before the audience as a musical prophecy of a talented artist about his own life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Rock
Overview: Documentary — featuring both interviews and live footage — about underground rock music in Russia, during the last years of the Perestroika.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-19
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Viktor Tsoi and the Kino group - concert at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Overview: The Soviet rock band Kino's concert at the Olympic Stadium (Olimpiyskiy) in Moscow on May 5th 1990.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-05-05
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Sunny Days
Overview: A documentary about the Soviet rock group Kino which mixes music video sequences, footage from the band members' day to day lives, interviews and concert footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Rock around the Kremlin
Overview: French television documentary which tells the French audience about what rock music was in the Soviet Union. Appearances: band "Кино" Boris Grebenshchikov, Sergey Kuryokhin, band "Секрет", Stas Namin, Artemy Troitsky and Alla Pugacheva.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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Dialogues
Overview: The film is based on the concert of "Pop Mechanics" under the direction of Sergey Kuryokhin.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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