The Man With a Movie Camera (1929), The Cranes Are Flying (1957), Andrei Rublev (1969), Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika (1965), Brilliantovaya ruka (1969), Come and See (1985), Dersu Uzala (1975), Andrei Rublev (1966) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Soviet Cinema movies.
Storyline: In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counter-revolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin's arrest is ordered. By late October, the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world. While the Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Anatov-Oveyenko leads the attack and signs the proclamation dissolving the provisional government.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white, experimental film, avant-garde, classic film, art film, symbolism ...
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 Russian explorer develops a unique and lasting relationship with a frontiersman during an expedition in Siberia.
Plot Keywords: adventure, survival, friendship, nature, siberia, wilderness, hunter ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. Sonya, the professor's daughter, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. The professor is pompous, vain, and irritable. He calls the doctor (Astrov) to treat his gout, only to send him away without seeing him. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. The presence of Yelena introduces a bit of sexual tension into the household. Astrov and Uncle Vanya both fall in love with Yelena; she spurns them both. Meanwhile, Sonya is in love with Astrov, who fails even to notice her. Finally, when the professor announces he wants to sell the estate, Vanya, whose admiration for the man died with his sister, tries to kill him.—Appelsla
Plot Keywords: drama, classic, black and white, stage adaptation, rural life, family conflict, melancholy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: crime, psychological, drama, suspense, literary adaptation, moral dilemma, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Left with her father-in-law, Izmajlow (Bojan Stupica), when her husband goes on an extended trip, Katarina (Olivera Markovic) falls in love with local pig farmer, Sergei (Ljuba Tadic). Her father-in-law discovers the affair and mercilessly beats Sergei. Fearing for her lover, Katerina feeds her father-in-law poisonous mushrooms, which allows a period of peace for the couple. However, when Katarina's husband, Zinovij (Miodrag Lazarevic), returns home, even more violence ensues.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, erotic, literary adaptation, shakespeare, tragedy, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Plot Keywords: documentary, soviet union, propaganda, revolution, history, politics, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's June, 1941 in a farming cooperative in the Soviet Socialist Republic of the Ukraine. Although the citizens of the cooperative hear about the atrocities of the war on their radios, they are on the most part not yet directly affected by it. It's the end of the school year, and some of the older youth are excited about their futures. Beyond that, a small group of those youths are looking most forward to their imminent vacation to Kiev, where they are planning to hike for the four or five days it takes to get there above their planned three days in the city itself. They include: Damian Terasa Simonov, who finished top of his class including getting a scholarship to study at the State University of Kiev in the fall; his girlfriend, Marina Pavlov, the two who will be separated for the year as she finishes her schooling and who plan eventually to reunite in Kiev not only for Marina to go to university as well but for the two to get married; Kolya Simonov, Damian's older, more worldly brother who is a junior officer in the Soviet air corps; Clavdia Kurin, an old fashioned type of girl on who Kolya is sweet; and Grisha Kurin, Clavdia's younger brother. Things change when the Nazis invade the Soviet Union - including the village of the cooperative - first with air strikes then ground troops. While some of the villagers form a guerrilla army hidden in the woods, they led by Kolya and Damian's father, Boris Stepanich Simonov, Kolya, Damian, Marina, Clavdia, Grisha, and fellow villager, the elderly Karp, are caught between Kiev and the village, all trying to make their way back to the village, except Kolya who must join his regiment at the airfield. Their journey becomes more important to the war effort upon their encounter with someone else on the road. Back in the village, the people who may end up being the most conflicted are: Marina's mother, Sophia Pavlov, who will probably be the primary target of the Nazis as the de facto head of the cooperative, with Marina's father, Rodion Pavlov, having joined the ranks of the guerrillas; and Clavdia and Grisha's grandfather, Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin, who as a doctor has vowed to save lives, and who may be asked to save the lives of wounded Nazi soldiers, all the while while the Nazis in similar circumstances have bled the children of villages to their deaths all in the name of providing blood plasma to the wounded soldiers.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: war film, world war ii, soviet union, propaganda, nazis, village life, patriotism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During World War II, a 12-year-old Russian sneaks behind enemy lines to spy on the Germans who killed his parents.
Plot Keywords: war, childhood, world war ii, soviet union, spy, tragedy, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Soviet director Sergei Bondarchuk's retelling of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel of Napoleon's invasion of Russia is widely considered one of the longest and most expensive films of all time. Like the novel, the film is broken into four sections telling two intertwining stories, that of the war itself (featuring some of the most elaborate battles ever filmed) and that of the romance of Russian aristocrats Count Pierre Bezukhov (Sergei Bondarchuk) and Countess Natasha Rostova (Lyudmila Saveleva).
Plot Keywords: epic, historical, war, romance, drama, literary adaptation, classic ...
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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