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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792846024
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0792846028
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogRussian (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: July 05, 2000
Running Time: 84 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: August 24, 1995
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Editorial Review:
Leon Theremin was the secret link between sci-fi films, the Beach Boys, and Carnegie Hall. His self-named electronic musical instrument--the first of its kind--took the world by storm in the 1920s and '30s. Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, winner of Sundance's Filmmakers Trophy, explores the inventor's strange life and times, including his mysterious 50-year disappearance beginning in the 1940s. Interviews with theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, and Theremin's contemporaries, as well as clips from movies such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, featuring the unworldly sounds of his creation, show an eccentric genius working toward success until his sudden vanishing in the Soviet Union. Footage of Theremin at 94 years old, finally rediscovered and rewarded for his achievements, brings a celebratory ending to what could be a grim or at least uncertain story, but instead is a fascinating documentary. --Rob Lightner
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A bitter triumph
I've not viewed this for awhile but what comes to mind is the account of Russian musical inventor Leonard Theremin's abduction from his NYC studio and brought to the USSR by Stalinist agents, in the 1920's, to be impressed into service to various projects against him his will and restricted freedom for a very large portion of his life and Friends could not get the US government to take any action whatsoever in securing his release or even to protest outrage.
He did get to return in time to ... Read More
Rating:  - theremin-an electronic odyssey
i had seen this at the movies (3 times) had found vcr's and had given them to my son (a musician in "trout fishing in america") and other friends. i decided it had to be in my permanent collection of dvd's and i have already loaned it, but am keeping track. it is marvelous. nidlet
Rating: - Music and politics
A fascinating documentary about the developer of the forerunner of the Moog synthesiser Dr Theremin, a Russian physicist who moved to the U.S. in the 1920s.
Not only do you get to hear and see the Theremin being played (it is actually not touched), which is fascinating in itself, but you get the story of Dr Theremin's vanishing from the U.S. and his return to Russia in 1938.
He is subsequently discovered in Russia and he returns briefly to the U.S. in the 90s, prior to his ... Read More
Rating: - An insight into a Wonderful Mind
Well done documentary on the mind of a wonderful inventor. Theremin's role in what was arguably the biggest eavesdropping story of the cold war was glossed over, as was left unexplained his being spirited the USSR and later being allowed to return to the USA.
A great introduction to an amazing man & his music machines!
Rating: - Great DVD
Fantastic documentary, the only thing preventing me giving it 5 stars is the fact that it doesn't have English subtitles and it is sometimes difficult to understand what Theremin is saying with his thick Russian accent.
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