Trawling through my 2008 playlist, I re-stumbled across this utterly brilliant video for The Last Shadow Puppets‘ The Age of the Understatement. Videos don’t get much grander than this: sweeping shots of Mother Russia, towering iconic onion-domed Moscow architecture, ice-rinks, Orthodox priests, a rousing chorus of Russian soldiers… and Alex Turner (yannow, that chap from the Arctic Monkeys) and Miles Kane riding Soviet tanks.

And what a thundering tune! Beats Muse’s Knight of Cydonia right outta the water.

The clip was directed by Frenchman Romain Gavras (son of filmmaker Costa Gavras, but clearly a damn good director in his own right). Romain also shot Simian Mobile Disco’s I Believe and Justice’s Stress, and is a cofounder of the collective Kourtrajmé .