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50s: My favorite Soviet movies

by Zhorzhik-Morzhik • Created 1 year ago • Modified 1 year ago
Top 24 Soviet movies and cartoons in the 1950s!
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  • The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

    1. The Cranes Are Flying

    19571h 35mNot Rated76Metascore
    8.3 (21K)
    Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
    DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsTatyana SamoylovaAleksey BatalovVasiliy Merkurev
  • The Idiot (1958)

    2. The Idiot

    19582h 2mPG-13
    7.6 (930)
    In the carriage of a train heading to St. Petersburg, Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, who returns to Russia after four years of treatment in a Swiss sanatorium, meets the wealthy merchant Parfyon Rogozhin. From him, Myshkin first hears about a certain Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, a former kept woman of the nobleman Totskiy.
    DirectorIvan PyrevStarsYuriy YakovlevYuliya BorisovaNikita Podgorny
  • The Destiny of a Man (1959)

    3. The Destiny of a Man

    19591h 43m
    7.9 (4K)
    A Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
    DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukPavel BoriskinZinaida Kirienko
  • The Golden Antelope (1954)

    4. The Golden Antelope

    195431mShort
    7.5 (1.6K)
    A poor Indian boy saves a magic antelope that can produce gold with its hooves. After a greedy Raja learns about it, he orders to bring him the antelope - or die.
    DirectorLev AtamanovStarsValentina SperantovaNina NikitinaRuben Simonov
  • The Bewitched Boy (1955)

    5. The Bewitched Boy

    195546m
    7.8 (561)
    A naughty boy named Nils is shrunken to a small size after offending a tomte. He has to go on a voyage with geese across Lapland to fulfill the prophecy and turn back to normal.
    DirectorsVladimir PolkovnikovAleksandra Snezhko-BlotskayaStarsValentina SperantovaAnatoliy KubatskiyErast Garin
  • Noch pered Rozhdestvom (1951)

    6. Noch pered Rozhdestvom

    195149m
    7.2 (366)
    The village blacksmith saddles the devil himself in order to get a gift for the beautiful Oksana. Based on Gogol's fairy tale.
    DirectorsValentina BrumbergZinaida BrumbergStarsAleksey GribovLiliya GritsenkoNikolai Gritsenko
  • The Scarlet Flower (1952)

    7. The Scarlet Flower

    195242mShort
    7.4 (1.4K)
    Nastenka asks her good father to bring her a scarlet flower from his journey One thing she doesn't know: the flower belongs to a horrible beast.
    DirectorLev AtamanovStarsMariya BabanovaNikolay BogolyubovOlga Chepurova
  • Boris Zelensky in Dvenadtsataya noch (1955)

    8. Dvenadtsataya noch

    19551h 30m
    7.4 (327)
    Based on Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
    DirectorYan FridStarsKlara LuchkoAlla LarionovaVadim Medvedev
  • Lyudmila Tselikovskaya and Boris Zelensky in The Grasshopper (1955)

    9. The Grasshopper

    19551h 31m
    7.0 (140)
    Osip Ivanovich Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the forenoon accepts patients, then goes to open corpses. But its income is hardly enough for a covering of expenses of the wife mad about talents and celebrities in the art and artistic environment whom it daily accepts in the house.
    DirectorSamson SamsonovStarsSergey BondarchukLyudmila TselikovskayaVladimir Druzhnikov
  • Yevgeniy Pozdnev in Tiger Girl (1955)

    10. Tiger Girl

    19551h 41m
    7.1 (445)
    The story is about heiress of the circus family who organizes show "Let's get married" right in the cage for the tigers.
    DirectorsAleksandr IvanovskyNadezhda KosheverovaStarsLyudmila KasatkinaPavel KadochnikovLeonid Bykov
  • The Tale About the Dead Princess and Seven Strong Men (1951)

    11. The Tale About the Dead Princess and Seven Strong Men

    195130mShort
    7.4 (374)
    A cruel queen jealous of her stepdaughter's beauty sends her deep into the woods on the night before wedding. The princess comes across a hut where seven good knights live, while the prince goes on a quest to find his bride.
    DirectorsIvan Ivanov-VanoAleksandra Snezhko-BlotskayaStarsMariya BabanovaZinaida BokarevaNikolay Litvinov
  • Vesna na Zarechnoy ulitse (1956)

    12. Vesna na Zarechnoy ulitse

    19561h 36m
    7.4 (1.9K)
    A newly appointed Russian literature teacher develops a strong connection with one of her flagging students.
    DirectorsMarlen KhutsievFeliks MironerStarsNina IvanovaNikolay RybnikovVladimir Gulyaev
  • Igor Ilyinsky and Mikhail Kheifits in Carnival Night (1956)

    13. Carnival Night

    19561h 18mNot Rated
    7.4 (3.4K)
    A new chief of a "Culture House" is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.
    DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsIgor IlyinskyLyudmila GurchenkoYuri Belov
  • Elina Bystritskaya and Pyotr Glebov in Quiet Flows the Don (1957)

    14. Quiet Flows the Don

    19575h 30mNot Rated
    7.7 (1.4K)
    An epic story of shattered lives of the Don Cossacks through chaos of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War.
    DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsDaniil IlchenkoAnastasia FilippovaPyotr Glebov
  • The Twelve Months (1956)

    15. The Twelve Months

    195655m
    7.4 (1.6K)
    A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
    DirectorsIvan Ivanov-VanoMikhail BotovStarsTatyana BaryshevaYuliya YulskayaLyudmila Kasatkina
  • Sandra Dee, Louise Arthur, Paul Frees, Tommy Kirk, and Patty McCormack in The Snow Queen (1957)

    16. The Snow Queen

    19571h 14mUnrated
    7.5 (3.3K)
    A young girl embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her friend, who has been taken captive by the Snow Queen and turned cruel by enchanted ice splinters.
    DirectorLev AtamanovStarsVladimir GribkovYanina ZheymoAnna Komolova
  • Nikolay Volkov in The Flying Carpet (1957)

    17. The Flying Carpet

    19571h 26mG
    7.1 (1.6K)
    A boy finds a special jug and releases an ancient genie. The powerful and kind wizard is ready to fulfill all desires, but he doesn't know anything about the reality of the 20th century.
    DirectorGennadiy KazanskiyStarsNikolay VolkovAleksei LitvinovGennadi Khudyakov
  • Dom, v kotorom ya zhivu (1957)

    18. Dom, v kotorom ya zhivu

    19571h 40m
    7.7 (494)
    A film about war from the point of view of those left behind.
    DirectorsLev KulidzhanovYakov SegelStarsValentina TeleginaNikolai YelizarovVladimir Zemlyanikin
  • Nikolay Cherkasov and Yuriy Tolubeev in Don Kikhot (1957)

    19. Don Kikhot

    19571h 50mPG
    7.3 (992)
    Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.
    DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsNikolay CherkasovYuriy TolubeevSerafima Birman
  • Dorogoy moy chelovek (1958)

    20. Dorogoy moy chelovek

    19581h 45m
    7.2 (270)
    The doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is the person of a debt and honor, he is devoted to business to which serves, and is devoted to the one and only love which carries by through all life: love to Varya Stepanova, the eccentrical little girl who is dreaming to become the great actress, but become the geologist. War will cruelly interfere with the fate of heroes and will even more confuse in them, already fragile, the relations. After long and unexpected separation heroes will for the first time meet in front hospital where the army doctor Ustimenko will operate not recovering consciousness "difficult" patient - Varya Stepanova.
    DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsAleksey BatalovInna MakarovaPyotr Konstantinov
  • Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

    21. Ballad of a Soldier

    19591h 28mNot Rated
    8.2 (12K)
    Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
    DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsVladimir IvashovZhanna ProkhorenkoAntonina Maksimova
  • The Last Inch (1959)

    22. The Last Inch

    19591h 28m
    7.4 (317)
    A boy must reach civilization on a plane for saving his wounded father.
    DirectorsNikita KurikhinTeodor VulfovichStarsNikolai KryukovVladislav MuratovMikhail Gluzskiy
  • The Anna Cross (1954)

    23. The Anna Cross

    19541h 22m
    6.8 (167)
    DirectorIsidor AnnenskyStarsAlla LarionovaVladimir VladislavskiyAleksandr Sashin-Nikolskiy
  • Leonid Kharitonov and Evgeniy Leonov in Ulitsa polna neozhidannostey (1958)

    24. Ulitsa polna neozhidannostey

    19581h 13m
    6.9 (181)
    The guard mistakenly takes a respectable cashier for a bully.
    DirectorSergei SidelyovStarsLeonid KharitonovVsevolod LarionovGeorgi Chernovolenko

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