{"id":16112,"date":"2023-12-30T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16112"},"modified":"2023-12-30T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T01:15:56","slug":"total-balalaika-show-1994-aki-kaurismaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16112","title":{"rendered":"Total Balalaika Show (1994, Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did not realize the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8893\">Leningrad Cowboys<\/a> (their hair in full glory) would be backed by the massive Russian Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble, playing to a crowd of 70 thousand.  After the first guitar rock song, the Cowboys stand by patiently while the Russians sing a loud, dull vocal number, then we get a Cowboy\/Russian duet on &#8220;Happy Together&#8221; and a huge version of &#8220;Delilah.&#8221;  It&#8217;s an expert combination of the solemn and the silly, and one of the all-time great concert films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did not realize the Leningrad Cowboys (their hair in full glory) would be backed by the massive Russian Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble, playing to a crowd of 70 thousand. After the first guitar rock song, the Cowboys stand by patiently while the Russians sing a loud, dull vocal number, then we get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,523,1599,390,2073,45],"class_list":["post-16112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-aki-kaurismaki","tag-concert","tag-finland","tag-rock-doc","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16134,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions\/16134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}