70s: My favorite Soviet movies

At the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

A carefree young percussionist roams the streets of Tbilisi, interacting with friends and strangers alike, and tries to avoid responsibilities.

The story of a young actor during the Civil War years who drives around the countryside giving free performances in order to bring art to the masses.

Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the village band, but as the battles between the Ukrainian nationalists and the Soviets go on, their band loses one player after another.

An emotionally persuasive drama describing the friendship of four World War II veterans, their sudden reunion after 25 years and the subsequent effect of this occasion upon their thoughts and evaluations of the past and present.

It so happens that peaceful kindergarten teacher is incredibly similar to the terrible villain who stole the helmet of Alexander the Great. And villain's accomplices are unexpectedly similar to children - they also need love and care.

During World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

An 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.

A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.

A man and a woman were in love with each other in their youth, then broke up and started new families, but did not become happy.

Set during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia

Unemployed and homeless Babbs Baberley (Alexander Kalyagin) is being chased by the police who attempt to arrest him for vagrancy. Babbs finds himself in a rich house, where he encounters Charlie and Jackie. Babbs' unsuccessful attempt to disguise himself as a woman gives Charlie and Jackie an idea. By threatening to surrender Babbs to the (successfully bribed) police, they force their unexpected visitor to dress once again as a woman and pass himself for Donna Rosa d'Alvadorez, Charlie's millionaire aunt who is expected to arrive with a visit from Brazil. Charlie and Jackie want Babbs to seduce Judge Criggs (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) with the irresistible charms of a millionaire widow and to trick the Judge into giving his nieces, Annie and Betty, a permission to marry Charlie and Jackie.

July 1942. Soviet forces are retreating in the face of a massive German onslaught towards Stalingrad. An infantry platoon is tasked with holding a vital hill in order to give their comrades time to cross the Don River and regroup.

Loosely based on Peter the Great's Negro, Alexander Pushkin's unfinished novel based on his own great-grandfather, a black African brought to Russia.

Rada, a beautiful and very proud gipsy girl is used to steal men's hearts and monk them. Zobar is a horse thief who's heart is stolen by Rada and his mind is bewitched. He is ready to give up his freedom but not his pride.

Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.

The Great Patriotic War. Zakhar Deryugin goes to the front, but is captured. Zakhar's sister Katya finds herself in the occupation. Having failed to reach agreement on cooperation, the Germans execute her. Bryukhanov leads a partisan detachment. Deryugin's eldest son is killed by a Fascist bullet while trying to escape, when he and the rest of the children and teenagers are being prepared to be sent to Germany.

Two scoundrels try to find twelve dining room chairs, into one of which a fortune in jewellery was sewn.

A romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.

The Wizard's magic got out of control because it touched human feelings.

Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.

A man with imagination opposes a society without it. Society forces him to betray his freedom-loving spirit, but imagination is immortal.

In post-war Moscow, two dissimilar police detectives follow the trail of a ruthless gang.