Stilyagi (film)

Stilyagi
Official film poster
Directed by	Valery Todorovsky
Written by	Yuriy Korotkov Valeriy Todorovskiy
Produced by	Vadim Goryainov Leonid Lebedev Valeriy Todorovskiy Leonid Yarmolnik
Starring	Anton Shagin Oksana Akinshina Maksim Matveyev Evgeniya Khirivskaya Ekaterina Vilkova Igor Voynarovskiy Konstantin Balakirev Sergei Garmash
Cinematography	Roman Vasyanov
Edited by	Aleksey Bobrov
Music by	Konstantin Meladze
Production companies	Russia-1 Krasnaya Strela Ministry of Culture Planeta Inform
Distributed by	Central Partnership
Release date	19 December 2008 (2008-12-19)
Running time	120 minutes 136 min (full DVD)
Country	Russia
Languages	Russian English subtitles
Budget	$15 million
Box office	$17 million (₽490 million)

Stilyagi (Russian: Стиляги, also known as Hipsters in the English release) is a 2008 Russian romantic jukebox musical film directed by Valery Todorovsky and starring Anton Shagin and Oksana Akinshina. Set in mid-1950s Moscow, the film depicts the Soviet stilyagi subculture, along with their struggle for self-expression within the prevailing reality of the Soviet repression.

Stilyagi has been featured at the Toronto International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, and the Cleveland International Film Festival, where it has been an audience favorite. It won the Audience Choice Award at the Anchorage International Film Festival in 2009 and several Golden Eagle Awards and Nika Awards, including Best Film in both.^[1] In Russia, it has become a cult film, as most of its score consists of covers of 1980s and 1990s Russian rock music from bands such as Bravo, Nautilus Pompilius, Nol and the Red Elvises. It received generally positive reviews from critics.