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From Eurasia - RUSSIA

by Caltiki05 • Created 13 years ago • Modified 9 years ago
Great Russian and Soviet films I've seen and ones I'm dying to watch.

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  • The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)

    1. The Cameraman's Revenge

    191212mNot RatedShort
    7.7 (3.4K)
    Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?
    DirectorWladyslaw Starewicz
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky in The Young Lady and the Hooligan (1918)

    2. The Young Lady and the Hooligan

    191845m
    6.5 (211)
    A young woman arrives in her school where she must teach for the first time. Her task consists in teaching a class of adults to read and write. All her students are male, ranging from boys to old men, and they are rather rowdy and difficult. All the more as a young hooligan dares write her on a test paper that he loves her. Feeling harassed by the young man, she is defended by other students. But she more or less feels the young bad boy's love is true and when this one is lying on his dying bed, after being stabbed by the other students, she solaces him by kissing him tenderly.
    DirectorsYevgeni SlavinskyVladimir MayakovskyStarsVladimir MayakovskyAleksandra RebikovaFyodor Dunayev
    7/10
  • Ivan Mozzhukhin in Otets Sergiy (1918)

    3. Otets Sergiy

    19181h 52m
    6.8 (652)
    Prince Kasatsky is a just and proud youth, shock and disappointment with the world bring him to church, he becomes father Sergius. It is a story of his piety and temptation.
    DirectorsYakov ProtazanovAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinOlga KondorovaV. Dzheneyeva
  • Konstantin Eggert, Yuri Zavadsky, and Izrail Bograd in Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924)

    4. Aelita, the Queen of Mars

    19241h 51mNot Rated
    6.3 (3K)
    Engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
    DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsYuliya SolntsevaIgor IlyinskyNikolai Tsereteli
    **** 1/2
  • Kino Eye (1924)

    5. Kino Eye

    19241h 18mNot Rated
    6.9 (1.3K)
    This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand bills, exhorting all to "buy from the cooperative" as opposed to the Private Sector, promoting temperance, and helping poor widows. Experimental portions of the film, projected in reverse, feature the un-slaughtering of a bull and the un-baking of bread.
    DirectorDziga Vertov
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925)

    6. Battleship Potemkin

    19251h 6mNot Rated97Metascore
    7.9 (64K)
    In 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.
    DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy Aleksandrov
  • José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, and Anna Zemtsova in Chess Fever (1925)

    7. Chess Fever

    192520mNot RatedShort
    7.1 (1.5K)
    With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.
    DirectorsVsevolod PudovkinMykola ShpykovskyiStarsJosé Raúl CapablancaVladimir FogelAnna Zemtsova
    ****
  • Strike (1925)

    8. Strike

    19251h 22mNot Rated
    7.6 (9.2K)
    A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
    DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsGrigoriy AleksandrovMaksim ShtraukhMikhail Gomorov
  • Nikolay Batalov and Grigory Borisov in Mother (1926)

    9. Mother

    19261h 29mNot Rated
    7.4 (3.2K)
    A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
    DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsVera BaranovskayaNikolay BatalovAleksandr Chistyakov
  • Vladimir Stenberg and Georgii Stenberg in The Girl with the Hat Box (1927)

    10. The Girl with the Hat Box

    19271hNot Rated
    7.1 (845)
    Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame's lazy husband a room for lounging. The local railroad clerk, Fogelev, loves Natasha but she takes a shine to Ilya, a clumsy student who sleeps in the train station. To help Ilya, Natasha marries him and takes him to Madame's to live in the room the house committee thinks is hers. Meanwhile, Madame's husband pays Natasha with a lottery ticket he thinks is a loser, and when it comes up big, just as Ilya and Natasha are falling in love, everything gets complicated
    DirectorBoris BarnetStarsAnna StenVladimir MikhaylovVladimir Fogel
  • Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov, Vladimir Stenberg, and Georgii Stenberg in The Eleventh Year (1928)

    11. The Eleventh Year

    192859m
    6.9 (401)
    This documentary film is showing the hard labor of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the U.S.S.R. economy and turning their country into a world power.
    DirectorDziga Vertov
    *** 1/2
  • Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Vladimir Stenberg, and Georgii Stenberg in October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)

    12. October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

    19281h 35m
    7.4 (8.8K)
    A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
    DirectorsGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsBoris LivanovNikolay PopovVasili Nikandrov
  • I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Leonid Obolensky, and Anel Sudakevich in Storm Over Asia (1928)

    13. Storm Over Asia

    19281h 14m
    7.0 (2.4K)
    After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.
    DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsI. InkizhinovValéry InkijinoffA. Dedintsev
  • Vladimir Stenberg and Georgii Stenberg in Arsenal (1929)

    14. Arsenal

    19291h 10mNot Rated
    7.2 (2.5K)
    A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
    DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsSemyon SvashenkoGeorgi KhorkovAmvrosi Buchma
    ****
  • Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova, Dziga Vertov, Vladimir Stenberg, and Georgii Stenberg in Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

    15. Man with a Movie Camera

    19291h 8mNot Rated96Metascore
    8.3 (29K)
    A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
    DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta Svilova
    ****
  • Iosif Gerasimovich in The General Line (1929)

    16. The General Line

    19292h 1mNot Rated
    7.2 (1.8K)
    100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
    DirectorsGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsMarfa LapkinaM. IvaninKonstantin Vasilyev
    ****
  • Earth (1930)

    17. Earth

    19301h 15mUnrated
    7.2 (6.8K)
    In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
    DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShkuratSemyon SvashenkoYuliya Solntseva
  • Ivan (1932)

    18. Ivan

    19321h 23m
    6.4 (352)
    A young farmer and his lazy father try to help with the construction of the Dniprohes, but he learns that strength is not enough for a worker and joins the Communist party.
    DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsK. BondarevskyDmitri GolubinskyElena Golki
  • Moscow Laughs (1934)

    19. Moscow Laughs

    19341h 36m
    6.9 (1.1K)
    A musically talented shepherd gets his big chance when he is mistaken for a famous conductor.
    DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovStarsLeonid UtyosovLyubov OrlovaMariya Strelkova
    ****
  • Boris Babochkin and Boris Zelensky in Chapaev (1934)

    20. Chapaev

    19341h 33m
    7.0 (1.5K)
    This film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in the World War I and later in the Russian Civil War, that followed the Russian revolution. This man of action is fighting on the side of the poor people. His troops consist of peasants, just like him. Unable to write, he can brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes on the table. He is street smart. He never lost a battle against the experienced Generals of the Tzar's Army.
    DirectorsSergey VasilevGeorgi VasilyevStarsBoris BabochkinBoris BlinovVarvara Myasnikova
    *** 1/2
  • Pyotr Zinovyev in Happiness (1935)

    21. Happiness

    19351h 35mNot Rated
    7.3 (1.2K)
    A hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness.
    DirectorAleksandr MedvedkinStarsPyotr ZinovyevYelena YegorovaMikhail Gipsi
    **** 1/2
    A wonderful and rare 1934 silent film from the Soviet Union, set during the early days of the Bolshevik Revolution. The story is focused on the misadventures of Khmyr' - a wretched peasant, constant victim of thieves, tax collectors, soldiers and priests - and the desperate pursuit of his own happiness.
    'Schastye' is surprisingly bizarre and modern for its time. It waves between folklore and futurism, fairy-tale and socialist satire, comedy and drama, and really entertains with its surreal moments and incredible characters. Essential viewing for anyone with an interest in Russian film and history.
  • Peter the First (1937)

    22. Peter the First

    19371h 36m
    7.2 (265)
    A historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
    DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsNikolai SimonovNikolay CherkasovAlla Tarasova
  • Alexander Nevsky (1938)

    23. Alexander Nevsky

    19381h 52mNot Rated
    7.5 (13K)
    The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
    DirectorsSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei Abrikosov
  • Conquest of Peter the Great (1939)

    24. Conquest of Peter the Great

    19391h 36m
    7.0 (167)
    The second part of the story is about the life and state activity of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
    DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsNikolai SimonovAlla TarasovaNikolay Cherkasov
  • Ukraine in Flames (1943)

    25. Ukraine in Flames

    194356m
    6.9 (183)
    Depicts the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.
    DirectorsYakov AvdeyenkoYuliya SolntsevaAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsLeonid KhmaraOleksiy FyodorovHermann Göring
    *** 1/2

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