Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys (Leningrad Cowboys Go America/Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses/Total Balalaika Show) (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]

Set Includes: Leningrad Cowboys Go America A struggling Siberian rock band leaves the lonely tundra to tour the United States because, as they are told, “they put up with anything there.” Aki Kaurismäki’s winningly aloof farce follows the men as they bravely make their way across the New World, carrying a coffin full of beer and sporting hairdos like unicorn horns.

Leningrad Cowboys Go America was such a sensation that the band gained a real-life cult following. Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses: Living in Mexico with a top-ten hit under their belts, the Leningrad Cowboys have fallen on hard times.

When they move north to rejoin their manager (Kaurismäki mainstay Matti Pellonpää) for a gig in Coney Island, he seems to have turned into a delusional self-proclaimed prophet who wishes to lead them back to the promised land of Siberia. Like the first installment, Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses is a road movie, but this time the humorous hardships come from the rocky terrain