Assa (film)

Assa
Directed bySergei Solovyov
Written bySergei Solovyov
Sergei Livnev
StarringTatyana Drubich
Stanislav Govorukhin
Viktor Tsoi
Sergei "Afrika" Bugaev
Narrated byNatan Eidelman
CinematographyPavel Lebeshev
Music byBoris Grebenshchikov
Production
company
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
145 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Assa (Асса) is a 1987 Soviet crime film directed and co-written by Sergei Solovyov. It became a cult film,[1][2] mainly due to the fact that it was one of the films that brought Russian rock music from the underground into the mainstream. Solovyov made a sequel to the film twenty years later, 2-ASSA-2.

While there are no causal links to it, Sovietology uses the release of Assa as a benchmark for when Perestroika reached the mass culture, and accordingly, entered its prime phase. This could be explained by the fact that the film was the first sanctioned production to feature group Kino.[3]

  1. ^ Assa Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine at the Mosfilm official website
  2. ^ Nikonova, Valeria. "Russia on Screen: The 10 Best Russian Films".
  3. ^ "Первый канал отметит юбилей Сергея Соловьева документальным фильмом о нем". 20 August 2019.