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Perestroika / Перестройка

by LittleBelarus • Created 7 years ago • Modified 4 months ago
Perestroika has brought a fresh breath to the Soviet cinematography (1985-1991)
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  • Fyodor Dunayevsky and Anastasiya Nemolyaeva in Courier (1986)

    1. Courier

    19861h 28mR
    7.7 (6.4K)
    A teenage boy goes about his life during the fall of communism in the Soviet Union.
    DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsFyodor DunayevskyAnastasiya NemolyaevaOleg Basilashvili
    soviet youth of the 80, breakdance, sparent-child relationship

    молодёжь 80-х, брейк-данс, отношения родителей и детей
  • Assa (1987)

    2. Assa

    19872h 33m
    7.6 (3.4K)
    ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in 1980. A young musician (Bananan) falls for a mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves a 19th Century assassination plot.
    DirectorSergey SolovyovStarsNatan EidelmanAnatoly SlivnikovGerman Shorr
    soviet youth of the 80s, soviet rockers, Crimea

    молодёжь 80-х, рок-музыканты, Крым
  • Repentance (1984)

    3. Repentance

    19842h 33mPG
    8.0 (5.2K)
    Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
    DirectorTengiz AbuladzeStarsAvtandil MakharadzeZeinab BotsvadzeIa Ninidze
    overcoming the past

    преодоление прошлого
  • Zabavy molodykh (1988)

    4. Zabavy molodykh

    19881h 21m
    6.3 (84)
    A group of college students due to truancies was eliminated from physical education classes and lost the opportunity to get credit. In order to correct the situation, the guys come up with a prank: a pretty student should charm the teacher.
    DirectorEvgeniy GerasimovStarsStanislav LyubshinMarina ZudinaNina Ruslanova
    soviet youth of the 80s, parent-child relationship, relations between students and teachers, school

    молодёжь 80-х, отношения родителей и детей, отношения между учениками и учителями, романтические отношения между студенткой и престарелым учителем, школа
  • Gospodin oformitel (1987)

    5. Gospodin oformitel

    19871h 49m
    6.9 (1.2K)
    A famous artist strives to find the secret to eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
    DirectorOleg TeptsovStarsViktor AvilovAnna DemyanenkoMikhail Kozakov
  • Viktor Tsoy in The Needle (1988)

    6. The Needle

    19881h 21m
    6.9 (3.2K)
    Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition. But Moro finds a deadly opponent in "the doctor," the mafia kingpin who is exploiting Dina.
    DirectorRashid NugmanovStarsViktor TsoyMarina SmirnovaPyotr Mamonov
    soviet youth of the 80s, soviet rockers, drug dependence

    молодёжь 80-х, наркомания
  • Little Vera (1988)

    7. Little Vera

    19881h 50mUnrated
    6.9 (2.3K)
    A teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town.
    DirectorVasili PichulStarsNatalya NegodaAndrey SokolovYuriy Nazarov
    soviet youth of the 80s, parent-child relationship

    молодёжь 80-х, отношения родителей и детей
  • Dmitriy Kharatyan in Chastnyy detektiv, ili operatsiya 'Kooperatsiya' (1990)

    8. Chastnyy detektiv, ili operatsiya 'Kooperatsiya'

    19901h 34m
    5.3 (598)
    The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy - owner of a toy store. Private eye Dmitri's first job is to try and free the store owner.
    DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsDmitriy KharatyanIrina FeofanovaSpartak Mishulin
    a satire on the era, crime

    сатира на эпоху, преступность
  • Oksana Arbuzova and Vladimir Ilin in Avariya - doch menta (1990)

    9. Avariya - doch menta

    19901h 39m
    6.7 (595)
    Her life motto is: "I like everything that you don't like." She protests everything. But under her "metal" shell - a lonely and suffering soul. Saving his daughter, the guardian of the law takes justice into his own hands.
    DirectorMikhail TumanishviliStarsOksana ArbuzovaVladimir IlinAnastasiya Voznesenskaya
    soviet youth of the 80s, parent-child relationship, relations between students and teachers, school

    молодёжь 80-х, отношения родителей и детей, отношения между учениками и учителями, школа
  • Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym (1989)

    10. Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym

    19891h 28m
    6.5 (230)
    A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
    DirectorYuriy KaraStarsAleksey PetrenkoAleksandr FeklistovEvgeniy Evstigneev
    overcoming the past

    преодоление прошлого
  • Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Lyubov Polishchuk, Irina Rozanova, and Elena Yakovleva in Intergirl (1989)

    11. Intergirl

    19892h 31m
    7.0 (1.7K)
    A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
    DirectorPyotr TodorovskiyStarsElena YakovlevaTomas LaustiolaLarisa Malevannaya
    prostitution in the USSR, female share, prince from abroad

    проституция в СССР, принц из-за границы, женская доля
  • Chyornaya roza - emblema pechali, krasnaya roza - emblema lyubvi (1990)

    12. Chyornaya roza - emblema pechali, krasnaya roza - emblema lyubvi

    19902h 11m
    7.1 (809)
    In fact, people who then appear around Mitya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.
    DirectorSergey SolovyovStarsTatyana DrubichAleksandr AbdulovMikhail Rozanov
    abstraction, overcoming the past, a satire on the era

    абстракция, преодоление прошлого, сатира на эпоху
  • Leonid Filatov in Zerograd (1988)

    13. Zerograd

    19881h 43m
    7.4 (2.8K)
    Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.
    DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsLeonid FilatovOleg BasilashviliVladimir Menshov
    abstraction, mysticism

    абстракция, мистика, предзнаменование перемен
  • Ono (1990)

    14. Ono

    19902h 4m
    6.7 (244)
    The bureaucratic epos on dialogues and M.E.Saltykova-Shchedrina's plots, life of the city of Glupov led by petty tyrants - city's mayors.
    DirectorSergei OvcharovStarsRolan BykovNatalya GundarevaSvetlana Kryuchkova
  • Taxi Blues (1990)

    15. Taxi Blues

    19901h 50m
    7.3 (2.1K)
    A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.
    DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovPyotr ZaychenkoVladimir Kashpur
    confrontation between the Soviet world and the New world

    противостояние старого советского мира и зарождающегося нового
  • Imitator (1991)

    16. Imitator

    19911h 36m
    5.7 (91)
    DirectorOleg FialkoStarsIgor SklyarNatalya LapinaAleksey Zharkov
    theatre, actors community, artist-imitator, parody, nuthouse, Ukraine

    театр, актёрское сообщество, артист-имитатор, пародии, сумасшедший дом, Украина
  • Bakenbardy (1990)

    17. Bakenbardy

    19901h 40m
    7.4 (518)
    A small provincial town is home to two rival teenage gangs, one devoted to loose living and punk music and the other a collection of narrow-minded bodybuilders obsessed with order and convinced of their own moral rectitude. However, this cosy state of affairs is upset by the arrival of two strangers dressed like Pushkin, the famous early 19th century Russian poet, who proceed to found their own organisation, dedicated ostensibly to the memory of the great writer and the "salvation of Russia". Gradually, they begin to assume control of the town...
    DirectorYuri MaminStarsViktor SukhorukovAleksandr MedvedevArtur Vakha
  • Rebro Adama (1991)

    18. Rebro Adama

    19911h 19m
    7.3 (438)
    A tragicomedy about four women of three generations living in a small Moscow flat: a sick grandmother who needs attention; a mother who cannot manage her personal life; and two daughters, each of whom have their own challenges.
    DirectorVyacheslav KrishtofovichStarsInna ChurikovaYelena BogdanovaSvetlana Ryabova
    female share, relationship between older single people, teenage pregnancy

    женская доля, отношения между взрослыми одинокими людьми, подростковая беременность
  • Lokh pobeditel vody (1991)

    19. Lokh pobeditel vody

    19911h 26m
    6.2 (177)
    The protagonist, a talented geek, avenges a gang of racketeers for killing a best friend, using his extensive knowledge in various fields of technology. He traces them, collects material and, not relying on the police, he himself administers justice. It helps him in this same victim of racket, a pretty woman with whom he begins to tie the novel.
    DirectorArkadiy TigayStarsSergei KuryokhinLarisa BorodinaAndrey Ponomaryov
    racket, crime

    рэкет, преступность
  • Oksana Arbuzova and Andrey Andreev in Migranty (1992)

    20. Migranty

    19921h 42mNot Rated
    6.0 (55)
    Pavel and Pavelina leave their rural countryside homes and move to Moscow to find work. Once there, they find that urban life is not what they thought it was and have to endure bitter hardships as they try to find work and places to live. The two meet for the first time during a fight at a bar, when they are arrested by police along with others in the building. The understand each other's troubles and band together to avoid both the police and criminal gangs that plagued Moscow toward the end of the Soviet Union.
    DirectorValeriy PriyomykhovStarsOksana ArbuzovaAndrey AndreevNina Ruslanova
  • The Chekist (1992)

    21. The Chekist

    19921h 33m
    7.0 (1.2K)
    Based on a 1923 short story by Vladimir Zazubrin, this movie tells the story of a bloody work and downfall of a Soviet Cheka security official involved in executions during the Russian Civil War.
    DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsIgor SergeevAleksey PoluyanMikhail Vasserbaum
    overcoming the past

    преодоление прошлого
  • Kiks (1992)

    22. Kiks

    19921h 35m
    7.0 (148)
    The most popular singer Zhanna Plavskaya turns into a drug addict - concerts, filming, recordings are disrupted. At the provincial doubles competition, the producer of the star finds a dreamy girl, brings her to the capital.
    DirectorSergey LivnevStarsEvdokiya GermanovaLyubov GermanovaAleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
  • Tatyana Dogileva and Leonid Markov in Otel 'Edem' (1991)

    23. Otel 'Edem'

    19911h 35m
    4.4 (32)
    DirectorVladimir LyubomudrovStarsLeonid MarkovTatyana DogilevaAleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
    The Prince of darkness is trying to seduce three married women in a southern resort

    Князь тьмы пытается соблазнить трёх замужних женщин на южном курорте
  • Noga (1991)

    24. Noga

    19911h 28m
    6.8 (294)
    Surreal drama based on the novel of the same name by William Faulkner. The first Russian film on the war in Afghanistan and Afghan syndrome.
    DirectorNikita TyagunovStarsIvan OkhlobystinPyotr MamonovIvan Zakhava
    war in Afghanistan, Afghan syndrome, phantom pain, hallucinations

    война в Афганистане, афганский синдром, фантомные боли, галлюцинации
  • Yuliya Menshova in Deystvuy, Manya! (1992)

    25. Deystvuy, Manya!

    19921h 50m
    4.8 (114)
    To fight mafia, a biologist and a programmer create a superman robot. An unexpected amendment to the calculations of one of the creators is made by erotic fantasies: superman turned out to be an exact copy of a photo model from a poster.
    DirectorRoman ErshovStarsSergey BekhterevYuliya MenshovaEvgeniy Vesnik
    female cyborg, racket, crime

    трэш-комедия, женщина-киборг, рэкет, преступность

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