Another important contributor for the breakthrough of Russian rock to the public in the 1980s were television and film. New musical television shows, such as "Muzykalny Ring" (Музыкальный ринг) and "Programma A" (Программа "А"), invited national rock artists for interviews and live shows. Several popular films were created in the second half of the 1980s, featuring Russian rock musicians as actors: "Igla" and "Assa" featuring Viktor Tsoi and music by Aquarium, "Taxi Blues" featuring Pyotr Mamonov. The Canadian filmmaker Peter Vronsky travelled to Moscow and Leningrad in February 1988 and shot a series of music videos with , Aquarium, Nebo i Zemlya, Zvuki Mu and other bands, tied together into a documentary film "Russian Rock Underground" which brought Russian Rock for the first time to MuchMusic television in Canada and to Italian television.