I’m very pleased to make our award-winning documentary ‘Roentgenizdat - The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone’ publically available.
Leningrad 1946, the Cold War: All culture is subject to the brutal control of a totalitarian state censor. But music-mad bootleggers devise an incredible and risky way to listen to and share the music they love, copying forbidden songs onto used X-ray film and creating their own records"
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Featuring interviews with Soviet-era X-Ray bootleggers, musicians, commentators and extraordinary archive footage telling the story of one of the strangest eras in vinyl, music, forbidden culture and cold war history.
Written and presented by Stephen Coates, filmed by Paul Heartfield, edited by Jason Reid