Sergei Kuryokhin

Sergei Kuryokhin

Born: June 16, 1954
Died: July 9, 1996
in Murmansk, RSFSR, USSR
Soviet and Russian avant-garde musician, composer, screenwriter and actor. In his youth, Kuryokhin was a keyboard player in several Leningrad rock bands and played in the jazz ensemble of Anatoly Vapirov, and in 1981 he released his first record abroad. In the 1980s, he took part in the recording of several Aquarium albums. In 1984, Kuryokhin for the first time gathered the Pop Mechanics group, which was a non-permanent concert line-up, in which musicians, singers and artists of different schools and styles could participate in the show, and Kuryokhin himself was the only permanent participant and ideological leader of which. Theatrical concert performances of "Pop Mechanics" included elements of performance, they could include insert numbers, performances by circus artists, fashion shows. Kuryokhin is also the author of music for two dozen films. Throughout his life, Kuryokhin was known as a skilled author of practical jokes and hoaxes. Kuryokhin's performance in the TV program "The Fifth Wheel", which gave rise to the media virus "Lenin is a mushroom", was the most famous. In 1995, Kuryokhin joined the National Bolshevik Party.

Movies for Sergei Kuryokhin...

Rock Beyond
Title: Rock Beyond
Character: self (archive)
Released: August 28, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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The Drowned
Title: The Drowned
Character: Self (archive)
Released: March 27, 2017
Type: Movie
The film details the independent electronic scene of the 80s and 90s in the industrial city of Izhevsk (USSR). Today so called "Izhevsk electronic wave" is an important underground phenomenon in the history of modern Russian music. Appearing: "СД", "Стук бамбука в XI часов", "Красивая пришла", Rodesia, "Самцы дронта", "Организация сна", "Новые испанские кролики", Velvet & Velvet Dolls, "Вторая африканская охота", Lancer, Virgo Intacta, Birdwood, Digital Meet, "Юка".
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Сергей Курёхин – человек, который изменил мир
Title: Сергей Курёхин – человек, который изменил мир
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 2012
Type: Movie
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Over the Dark Water
Title: Over the Dark Water
Character: muzh Klary
Released: July 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
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Prisoners of fortune
Title: Prisoners of fortune
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
An attempt at a parody comprehension of the clichés and techniques of the Soviet adventurous comedy genre of the 50s-70s. This is a story about three heroes who return to their home city after escaping from prison. Truthfulness and sincerity help the characters find their place in the changed system.
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Nicotine
Title: Nicotine
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Mirror film, intellectual game, tribute to Jean-Luc Godard and "Breathless". The narrative plot resumes the transposed history in post-Soviet St. Petersburg.
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Insanity Complex
Title: Insanity Complex
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Two Captains II
Title: Two Captains II
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The beginning of the 20th century. The recklessness of fanatics is pushing humanity towards the abyss. A revolution begins in Russia. Crazy Dr. Farkus induces an orgasm of inanimate matter. White Moroccan dwarfs are becoming active. A second Sun appears in the sky. In this difficult environment, captains selflessly confront the forces of chaos, maintaining the cosmic balance of history.
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House Under the Starry Skies
Title: House Under the Starry Skies
Character: пассажир в метро
Released: January 7, 1991
Type: Movie
Old scientist Bashkirtsev is very surprised to discover the possible contacts with other world...
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Bloodsuckers
Title: Bloodsuckers
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybody believe that the main character was in love with her. He escapes from many difficulties in order to find his beloved who also became trapped in a luxurious villa with some strange relatives. The people inside villa are vampires, they were called upyri in those days in Russia. They suck blood of anyone who comes to see them. The young man too much in love so he looses his head and goes directly to the nest of vampires.
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Lenin Was A Mushroom
Title: Lenin Was A Mushroom
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Satirical mockumentary by Sergei Kuryokhin and Sergei Sholokhov, trying to prove an absurd sensationalist point - that Vladimir Ilych Lenin was, in fact, a mushroom!
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Dude - Water Winner
Title: Dude - Water Winner
Character: Pavel Gorelikov
Released: December 29, 1990
Type: Movie
The film tells about the engineer Gorelikov, who, together with his disabled friend, opens a salon with computers for children and students. And suddenly they are attacked by a gang of racketeers.
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Broken Light
Title: Broken Light
Released: October 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An art film about the life of Soviet creatives in the late 1980s.
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Tragedy, Rock Style
Title: Tragedy, Rock Style
Character: Sergei Kuryokhin
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Vitya is a teenage rock-music and motorbike fanatic whose father is arrested for embezzlement. Vitya is devastated, and in this state of shock he falls prey to a supposed mystic called Cassius.
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Rock
Title: Rock
Character: himself
Released: January 19, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary — featuring both interviews and live footage — about underground rock music in Russia, during the last years of the Perestroika.
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Dialogues
Title: Dialogues
Character: himself
Released: November 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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Rock around the Kremlin
Title: Rock around the Kremlin
Character: himself
Released: August 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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.