Last Thursday, in a wide, rolling out the film “Summer” by Kirill Serebrennikov, which tells about the early stages of art rock musicians. The picture has already caused a wide public resonance. A lot of discussion about whether similar heroes, how could it be in reality and the film’s soundtrack.

“StarHit” decided to recall some of the most interesting facts from the film. A local journalist, Mikhail Sadchikov personally know of Viktor Tsoi, Mike Naumenko, Boris Grebenshchikov. He openly said what was heroes, which marked the beginning of a new era.

“I remember Victor quite different. He was laconic, quiet, modest. Imagine, even with his first Director Yuri Belishkina, he until the last moment chatted. Remember terse Tsoi, who in the early 80-ies came to me for an interview with musician George Kasparian (guitarist of the band “Kino”). We chatted in the format “question – answer”, any lyrical digressions, jokes, arguments. A clear question – clear answer. The same he was at the recital at the Leningrad Palace of Youth in the late 80-ies, where I was leading – a minimum of words, maximum music,” shared Michael.

In the film, “Summer”, Viktor Tsoi comes to Mike Naumenko to ask for help. History has preserved the fact that the musician really early in his career, consulted with drunk musician.

Naumenko graduated from high school and knew English, was fond of music – in Soviet times it was one of the pioneers in the genre of rhythm-and-Blues and rock-n-roll. However, in the film the emphasis is on the fact that Choi more help Mike, although this is not quite true – the first album was produced by Victor Boris Grebenshchikov, who unveiled a young artist.

“Still much debated, like whether the actors on their prototypes. Roma Beast, for whom this role was one of the first in the career, it is very accurately expressed the way Mike. At some point I even caught myself thinking that I live Naumenko, so a Beast accustomed to the role of all these abstruse phrases, attitudes, tones. Harder with the Korean actor Theo Yu At live performances Theo quite accurately conveys facial expressions and movements Tsoi, who on stage was like a string. In life, nearly two-meter-Choi was smooth and measured, and mostly without emotion, but in the film he is shown in a different Serebrennikov,” said Michael.

Was there a romance between Natalia Naumenko and Victor Tsoi is one of the main questions that arises after watching the film “Summer.” Around Choi was surrounded by a lot of women who sympathized with him, another would be: tall, athletic, taciturn, with a guitar. Mike is doted in his spurn that love and marriage they had a son Eugene.

Witnesses confirmed that the romance between Natalie and Victor could not be. Boris Grebenshikov in one of the interviews talked about the fact that Mike and Tsoi were buddies, so to get the woman another victim, the musician could not.

“In your recent interview with Natalya Naumenko noted that Mike was not a good father – he worked hard, was immersed in creativity, but a son growing up a little. In the example puts Viktor Tsoi, whom he calls a good father. But the filmmakers clearly went overboard with the scene, when Choi Soaps ass baby Naumenko. Although Choi in the role of nurse looks pretty touching, considering his love for his only son, Alexander Tsoi,” Sadchikov said.

Also in the film, Leto Choi is going to enroll in the Studio to Andrew, Tropillo. Really, really in the 80-ies in the USSR professional recording of music albums were a rarity, and future stars tried to make friends with the sound engineer – precisely because it was published the albums “Aquarium”, “Cinema” and other stars. Victor went to visit him in the Studio to record a few songs. Another thing is that, Tropillo in the film looks unexpectedly refined and smoothed, although in life he was always a little disheveled and sloppy, with the familiar crazy glint in her eyes. Also in the film Mike Naumenko comes to Boris Grebenshchikov and asks to record an album of Viktor Tsoi.

“Boris Grebenshchikov has always stood apart in the rock subculture. Even then, in the distant 80s, when he was about 30, often about him to hear the word genius. And even though Mike and BG knew each other even before the events described in the film, come together on the basis of intellectual passions, the didactic tone in which Mike explains in the film Grebenshchikov, that can happen to a musician in this country, if not record, alluding to the fact that Choi’s time to do the album, it does not follow from the logic of the character of Boris Borisovich. It is unlikely that this could happen,” Sadchikov said.

In the movie the main characters and then drink beer and wine. Alcohol is an integral part of the rock youth.

“There is a theory that Naumenko ruined it alcoholism. According to Boris Grebenshchikov it is not, he says, that in the mid-80s Mike “drank beer and wine not more than anyone else in this country.” However, in the second half of the 80s, started hanging around this peccadillo. Once Mike gave the word BG that everything is under control, but during these years he started to write, speak and work. At some point he suffered a stroke which he is still able to recover, and again began to speak. And that’s the cause of Mike’s death is still mysterious: someone thinks that it ruined the alcohol, someone calls another beating on the street near his home, after which he died in his room,” shared Michael.

Viktor Tsoi says in the film that his song is not a joke. It is not known, as his art-school a musician himself, but many of his friends say that he was not such a revolutionary and socially oriented person, as he is present now.

“Even in the famous song “We want change” is not the straightforward sense that they are hear now. This theory is confirmed by the son of Choi, Alexander, who after years of silence appeared in rock music. He notes that many of the songs Choi wrote with irony, and they are interpreted differently now than it was in reality”, – summed up Sadchikov.