Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
German theatrical poster
Directed by	Aki Kaurismäki
Produced by	Aki Kaurismäki Reinhard Brundig Paula Oinonen Fabienne Vonier
Written by	Sakke Järvenpää Aki Kaurismäki Mato Valtonen
Starring	Matti Pellonpää Kari Väänänen André Wilms Nicky Tesco The Leningrad Cowboys
Music by	Mauri Sumén
Cinematography	Timo Salminen
Edited by	Aki Kaurismäki
Distributed by	Pandora Filmproduktion
Release date	16 February 1994
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Finland/Germany/France
Language	English

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses is a 1994 film directed by Aki Kaurismäki. It is a sequel to the popular 1989 film Leningrad Cowboys Go America that introduced the fictional Russian rock band Leningrad Cowboys which, subsequently, became a notable real life rock band in Finland.

Picking up where Leningrad Cowboys Go America left off, the band has settled in Mexico after charting a top ten hit there. However, many band members become alcoholics spending most of their day drinking tequila. Before long, more than half of the band members have died from excessive drinking. The surviving members have, in the mean time, become naturalized Mexicans, complete with mustaches, Mexican wardrobe but with their pompadours still intact.

Down on their luck and out of practice, the band and their road manager Igor (Kari Vaananen) receive an anonymous telegram, requesting their presence for a gig at the Surf Hotel at Coney Island. So they sneak past the Mexican–American border and make their way to New York City. When they arrive, they find out that the sender of the telegram was their ex-manager Vladimir (Matti Pellonpää) who, after going through an experience of being born again, now calls himself Moses. Moses gathers the group at his room, and plans a return trip to the Promised Land (Siberia), for purposes that are explained later. After they leave for Europe, Moses takes the Statue of Liberty's nose as a souvenir.

While the others head to Europe by boat, Moses stows away on the wing of a plane. Inside, Johnson, a CIA agent (André Wilms), learns of the missing nose through an article in the New York Tribune. Moses, meanwhile, falls off the plane and meets up with the band at a beach. Several of their people from Siberia arrive in a rented bus to pick them up.