Encore (2014): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2014, Encore is a music and documentary film directed by Dmytro Lavrinenko, running about 96 minutes.

What it’s about. Many many words have been written and a few ingenious TV documentaries have been filmed about the great Russian rock band Auktyon ("Аукцыон"), which recently celebrated 30 years of playing music. Everything is completely different in the case of the film Encore: it took seven years for the director, Dmitry Lavrinenko, to make it; he needed just that amount of time to capture the wayward grace still preserved by Fyodorov, Garkusha, Ozersky and their associates. If you look behind the powerful music facade, you find not a story of a band but chronicles of a voyage aimed at incredible, incomparable music. Encore shows how the songs which are now known by heart were composed; it also shows things generally left aside: pieces of everyday life, tour diaries, conversations, including the key phrase: "You should not look at the liberty too much, you might feel dizzy."

Who’s in it. Encore stars Leonid Fedorov as Himself, Oleg Garkusha as Himself, Dmitry Ozersky as himself and Vladimir Volkov as himself, among others.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Encore page.

If you liked it. Fans of Encore tend to enjoy Whiplash, Coco, Green Book and The Legend of 1900.