Leningrad Cowboys

The Leningrad Cowboys are sort of Finland's answer to the Monkees, a band that was originally created for a movie, but which went on to an artistic life of its own. The film, 1989's Leningrad Cowboys Go America, was written and directed by noted Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki. A deadpan, surreally comic road movie about a Siberian polka band who reinvent themselves as an outsider-art version of ...more