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The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch

Name: The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch
Genre: Music
Released: 2004-08-17
Duration: 13 min

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Music

A collection of video clips accompanying the songs 'The Flowers', 'Carbon Monoxide', 'Ode To Divorce', 'Us' and 'The Ghost Of Corporate Future' from Regina Spektor's 2003 album 'Soviet Kitsch'.

08-17-2004

13 min

Backdrop for The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch

Main Cast

Regina Spektor

Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian-American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Spektor was born in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, to a musical Russian-Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Soviet college of music and teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York. Spektor has a brother, Boruch (also known as Bear). Growing up in Moscow, Regina started taking piano lessons when she was seven and learned how to play the piano by practicing on a Petrof upright that her grandfather gave her mother. She grew up listening to classical music and famous Russian bards like Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Her father, who obtained recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union, also exposed her to rock and roll bands such as the Beatles, Queen, and the Moody Blues.

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Main Cast

Movie Details

Production Info

Director:: Regina Spektor

Writer:: Regina Spektor

Production:: Sire Records

Key Crew

Music:: Regina Spektor

Lyricist:: Regina Spektor

Producer:: Regina Spektor

Art Direction:: Regina Spektor

Locations and Languages

Country:: US

Filming:: US

Languages:: en