BEST SOVIET FILMS
Best Soviet Films 1917-1991
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- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsMargarita TerekhovaFilipp YankovskiyIgnat DaniltsevA dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsZinaida SharkoOleg VladimirskyYuriy KayurovA single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.
- DirectorIlya AverbakhStarsMikhail GluzskiyMargarita TerekhovaMarina NeyolovaA professor of science dedicated to his work, but alienated from his personal life, struggles to reconcile with his estranged daughter.
- DirectorSergey MikaelyanStarsEvgeniy LeonovVladimir SamoylovOleg YankovskiyCommunists debating unfair bonuses in one Soviet company.
- DirectorRezo ChkheidzeStarsSergo ZakariadzeVladimir PrivaltsevAleksandr NazarovAn old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.
- DirectorAndrei KonchalovskyStarsVladimir SamoylovVitali SolominYevgeny PerovIn the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.
- DirectorPyotr TodorovskiyStarsNikolay BurlyaevNatalya AndreychenkoInna ChurikovaThis melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front. Naturally, he seeks to help them but his wife is not so understanding...
- DirectorsAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsViktor AvdyushkoAleksandr DemyanenkoStanislav KhitrovOn the last day of World War II in Europe (May 8th, 1945) three Soviet soldiers are assigned the thankless task of taking a frightened pregnant German woman, whom they are unable to communicate with, to a hospital.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsAleksandr DemyanenkoNatalya VarleyVladimir EtushA young student Shurik comes to a remote mountainous region in search of ancient legends and traditions. Fooled by the corrupt local governor, he helps him to kidnap a beautiful young girl, but soon realizes what he's done.
- DirectorIlya AverbakhStarsElena SoloveyAnatoliy EgorovYevgeny PerovDrama based on the novella by N.S. Leskov "The Stupid Artist". The fate of two young people, endowed with soul and talent, is traced in the serf society of the early 19th century, where the human personality in itself does not mean and does not cost anything.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsYuriy YakovlevLeonid KuravlyovAleksandr DemyanenkoAn ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.
- DirectorsSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
- DirectorLeonid BykovStarsLeonid BykovVladimir KonkinElena ShaninaThe families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.
- DirectorVladimir BortkoStarsYury BelyayevElena SoloveyIrina SkobtsevaSet in the Soviet Union the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.
- DirectorAndrei KonchalovskyStarsEvgeniy KindinovElena KorenevaInnokentiy SmoktunovskiySergey and his girlfriend Tanya must postpone their matrimony, because he must do military service. When Sergey later disappears during a rescue mission, Tanya is depressed, but her family persuades her to marry Sergey best friend, Igor.