Brezhnev Rap

Dedicated to Mikhail Gorbachev!
Moscow 1983. Brezhnev was already dead, but Gorbachev not in sight. Andrea and me entered Moscow with a tourist visa, a tiny super8 camera, b/w film material and a nice peace of hashish. we wanted to know how Moscow did look like off the red square parades. High noon in the cold war, there was no footage availabel of people eg.: traveling by underground. How does a socialist shopping window look alike? are there shopping windows at all? back in West-Berlin i went to the CCCP Novosti-press agency for a Brezhnev foto. they were sceptical, but gave it to me. The young canadian film maker Lisan Thibodeau just arrived in Berlin, and lent Brezhnev her lips. The musik is composed by Günter "Ghazi" Friedenberg. The "rap" is clipped from a Brezhnev speach in font of the congress, wich Günter piched a bit to make it swing.
Camera/director: Knut Hofmeister
Assistant director: Andrea Champ.

The "Brezhnev Rap" was relaesed on Venyl in 1983(1000p). very rare collectors item, is part of Fragment/Video/82/83 , and was part in the performance of for the "Notorische Reflexe" from 1982-1985

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mikhail
• Gorbachev
• Leonid
• Brezhnev
• Moscow
• USSR
• Notorische
• Reflexe

[E155]

Great vid, but I only hear it in the right speaker.

[notref]

now you know why the ussr vanished...;-) they were deaf on the left ear.

[saromak]

kazhnikoww

[notref]

@saromak

kazhnikoww? what does it mean? just curious.

[captainnsensible]

I remembered this song,first time i heard that song was on radio Študent in the first part of eighties.

[notref]

Yep, if you are from Slovenia, we played in Lubiljana something like 1983 and "Laibach" was our supporting act. Good memory.

[showtime501st]

Great

[Zhukov17]

that's really great. Thanks!

[saromak]

kalasjnikow

[notyourmind]

No audio!

[saromak]

ik bedoelde eigenlijk gewoon

kalasjmikof

[tv56]

TRIPLE A!

[eeelick]

i quite enjoyed this. Excellent footage. It almost looks like old news reel.

[lidbjork]

Awesome video and song! Love it!