The Firemen's Ball (1967), Siberiade (1979), Battleship Potemkin (1925), Storm Over Asia (1928), Man of Iron (1981), The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973), Sun Alley (2000), I Am Cuba (1964) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Socialist Realism movies.
Storyline: In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ball, yet struggle tremendously to find enough pretty contestants. A lottery is planned for later in the evening, but the guests begin stealing the prizes. Then, inevitably, there is a fire in the town... It seems that whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, bureaucracy, collectivism, absurdity, political allegory, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil. The oil is found but the destruction of the old cemetry and everything the people of the village cared for followed to get the 'black treasure' of Siberia.—Konstantin Dlutskii <ked@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
Plot Keywords: epic, historical, drama, family saga, siberia, 1970s, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa.
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white, historical drama, classic film, expressionism, navy, oppression ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lowly Mongolian trapper Bair (Valery Inkijinoff), shunned by his fellow trappers for fighting with a trader, flees his trading post and joins the Soviet partisans trying to oust the occupying British forces. After Bair is captured and shot by the British, they find an amulet on him suggesting he is descended from Genghis Khan. The soldiers nurse Bair back to health and use him to establish a puppet government, not realizing their plan will backfire when the puppet breaks his strings.
Plot Keywords: silent film, historical drama, imperialism, colonialism, class struggle, 1920s, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. In Warsaw in 1980, the Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. Their narrations become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: history, politics, working class, solidarity, poland, biography, social movement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A married bureaucrat (Winfried Glatzeder) and a single mother (Angelica Domröse) of two meet and fall in love.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, working class, life struggles, social critique, classic film, marital issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.—GMeleJr
Plot Keywords: youth, coming of age, romance, comedy, 1970s, rebellion, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cuba's embracement of Communism is honored in four vignettes dramatizing life before Fidel Castro and the revolution.
Plot Keywords: black and white, epic, historical drama, collectivism, cold war era, class struggle, collective memory ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Authorities try to suppress a strike by factory workers in 1912 czarist Russia, with violent results.
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white, classic film, historical, propaganda, collectivism, class struggle ...
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