Aki Kaurismäki: Leningrad Cowboys - Rocky VI (1986)

Rockʼ y is a 1986 nine-minute black-and-white short parody of Rocky IV by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki. The film stars Antti Juhani “Silu“ Seppälä (Leningrad Cowboys) as Rocky and Sakari Kuosmanen as Igor, his Soviet opponent. In the film, the two boxers fight at Töölön kisahalli in Helsinki. The much bigger Igor quickly knocks out Rocky and wins the match. Rockʼ y is still shown at many film festivals. In 2004, the film was screened at Finále Plzeň in Czech Republic and at Xèntric at the Center o
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