Top Soviet films
My personal selection of the best Soviet films, which I have seen. I have given them the highest rate (10/10).
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- DirectorKonstantin VoinovStarsGeorgiy VitsinLyudmila ShagalovaLidiya SmirnovaListening to the sweet sound of the crazy old woman's song "Dobraya, dobraya!" curly dreamer can't decide to marry.«Женитьба Бальзаминова» / Balzaminov's Marriage (1964) - EN, RU
youtube.com/watch?v=cp4hx21ne0w - DirectorIvan PyrevStarsYuriy YakovlevYuliya BorisovaNikita PodgornyUpon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy."Идиот" (Idiot)
This is the version directed by Ivan Pyryev.
https://youtu.be/qn8G-RYyfrM (subtitles in English, etc) - DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsVladimir IvashovZhanna ProkhorenkoAntonina MaksimovaYoung Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime."Баллада о солдате" (Ballad of a Soldier)
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsIgor IlyinskyLyudmila GurchenkoYuri BelovA 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."Карнавальная ночь" (Carnival Night)
A well-known comedy by Eldar Ryzanov, starring Ludmila Gurchenko (her first role). A group of young people prepares a New Year concert in a local house of culture and outsmarts a bureaucrat, who wants to organise the celebration in his own way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_m017ebtD8 (English subtitles)
I have made a better translation. Ask me for the link. - DirectorVasili OrdynskyStarsLyudmila KrylovaLidiya Fedoseeva-ShukshinaMargarita KoshelevaStory about three young girls and their dreams and plans for the future."Сверстницы" (Female Age-Mates)
https://youtu.be/jqbaCD-Gv88 (no subtitles) - DirectorYuli RaizmanStarsZhanna ProkhorenkoIgor PushkaryovAleksandra NazarovaHigh schoolers Ksenia and Boris begin to understand that the feelings they share are more than just a friendship. But their first timid sentiment became apparent to people around them. They have to confront mocking schoolmates and hypocritical and rude grown-ups."А если это любовь?" (But What If It's Love?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOiK6AmqJWo (my subtitles in English, French, Russian)
https://youtu.be/-2IhHYRXExU (no subtitles) - 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."Иван Васильевич меняет профессию" (Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession a.k.a. Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future)
In this famous comedy, Shurik (whom you probably know from Operatsiya Y and Kavkazskaya plennitsa) invents a time machine and decides to travel to the Medieval Moscow. The film is very amusing and probably is more understadable for foreigners than other Gaidai's comedies. The music by Alexandr Zatsepin is superb!
http://youtu.be/zuYu9VvvD4w (subtitles in English etc) - DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsAndrey MyagkovBarbara BrylskaYuriy YakovlevAn incredible story about a man who misplaced the cities and found his love during the one special night - New Year's celebration.One of the most loved Soviet films, traditionally showed on TV during New Year holidays. The sequel, made in 2007, is to be avoided.
http://youtu.be/lVpmZnRIMKs (1 part, English subtitles)
http://youtu.be/5TmGPeowN-0 (2 part, English subtitles) - DirectorMark ZakharovStarsOleg YankovskiyIrina KupchenkoEvgeniy LeonovThe Wizard's magic got out of control because it touched human feelings.http://youtu.be/gZiKrWSzNBo (1 part, English subtitles)
http://youtu.be/mzpJq23cuKc (2 part, English subtitles) - DirectorVasili PichulStarsNatalya NegodaAndrey SokolovYuriy NazarovA 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."Маленькая Вера" (Little Vera)
https://youtu.be/E8MCiceJJdY (no subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROcT_slJzdo (English subtitles) - DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLeonid FilatovTatyana DogilevaIrina KupchenkoA former musician must make a hard choice between freedom with mistress and comfortable life with wife.
"Забытая мелодия для флейты" (Forgotten Tune for the Flute)
One of my most loved films by Eldar Ryazanov. Made in the genre of tragicomedy, which characterised the perestroika period of the late USSR.
http://youtu.be/zCIb0R_8Ww4 (1 part, English subtitles)
http://youtu.be/lvyRzWWS07w (2 part, English subtitles) - DirectorIvan PyrevStarsLyudmila MarchenkoOleg StrizhenovAnatoli FedorinovA Dreamer, living in a big city for a few years and all the time he is alone. But one summer in St. Petersburg's White Nights on the Neva, he meets Nastya."Белые ночи" (White Nights). Based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Fabulous acting, music and fencing! The film has been recently restored.
youtube.com/watch?v=HcAbVpneLnc (no subtitles) - DirectorYuriy ChulyukinStarsNadezhda RumyantsevaNikolay RybnikovLyusena OvchinnikovaSeveral romance stories - part funny, part sadly - set in a remote logging camp."Девчата" (The Gals)
youtu.be/8CYY8EM5xYE (subtitles in English, French, Russian, etc) - DirectorBoris RytsarevStarsBoris BystrovDodo ChogovadzeAndrey FaytA poor young man accidentally becomes the master of a wish-granting genie. A colorful tale of magic and love.
- DirectorEfim GamburgStarsEduard NazarovGleb MorozovVsevolod LarionovA cartoon composed of four parts, parodying "classical" gangster and criminal movies of four countries: robbery American style, French style, Italian style and Russian style. All cartoon characters resemble real movie stars of 50th and 60th.
- DirectorFyodor KhitrukStarsAleksey PolevoyGeorgiy VitsinClassic Soviet cartoon about the film industry."Фильм, фильм, фильм" (Film, Film, Film - 1968). A humourous animated film about the filmmaking process. My rating: 10.
youtu.be/oMRP-H4uSf0 (no subtitles, high video quality, restored)
youtu.be/EdwSmmXU6JM (no subtitles, good video quality)
youtu.be/Lyibpa6L59E (English subtitles) - DirectorMikhail TsekhanovskiyStarsMariya BabanovaZhanna BalashovaYulyen BalmusovThe tale about an old, henpecked man whose new friend fulfills all desires of his wife.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsEvgeniy MorgunovGeorgiy VitsinYuriy NikulinThree criminals contrive the entire moonshine facility inside a wilderness hut. Their law-abiding dog is going to stop that outrage."Самогонщики" (Bootleggers)
youtu.be/Zf8JDmvyRx8 (with my subtitles in English, French, Swedish, Finnish, etc) - DirectorAleksandr TatarskiyStarsLeonid BronevoyAleksandr LevenbukLev Shimelov"Plasticine Crow", a re-telling of the old Aesop fable about the Fox and the Crow."Пластилиновая ворона" (Plasticine Crow)
youtu.be/4iJexPr-dM0 (Russian subtitles) - DirectorLeonid NosyrevStarsEvgeniy LeonovYuriy VolyntsevAnatoliy BarantsevThe tale that the house was not stoked throughout the century."Волшебное кольцо" (Magic Ring)
youtu.be/-LqD-W9kzYw (no subtitles) - DirectorMikhail TsekhanovskiyViktor GromovStarsTatyana BaryshevaNatalya ZashchipinaBoris OmekhinA little girl receives a magic flower that grants seven wishes and starts wasting them one after another, not caring about the consequences."Цветик-семицветик" (The Rainbow Flower a.k.a. The Flower of Seven Colours)
youtu.be/m9NP7R0jCuM (my subtitles: English, French, Swedish, Finnish, Russian) - DirectorFyodor KhitrukStarsZinoviy GerdtThe man decides to kill the neighbors because they prevent him from sleeping."История одного преступления" (The Story of a Crime). The theme: depriving a person of sleep leads to a crime.
youtu.be/Ox3veE01Szw (no subtitles, high video quality, a restored video)
youtu.be/oju_R8veOa0 (no subtitles, good video quality)
youtu.be/1qprut1rkFY (English subtitles) - DirectorRoman KachanovThe story is about the girl who dreams of having a dog, but a strict and busy mother does not allow her to do this.Варежка (The Mitten, 1967)
A little girl, who dreams of having a puppy, but not allowed to have it, imagines that her mitten is a puppy.
youtu.be/ayoUMkqDo7M (no subtitles, but there is no dialogue) - DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsLyudmila SavelevaVyacheslav TikhonovSergey BondarchukThe Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.
- DirectorLeonid KvinikhidzeStarsNikolay YeryomenkoNatalya TrubnikovaVladimir ZeldinA lonely journalist in some West European country has a vision about the princess of his city who lived in XII century.An interesting story about the time travel and love between different epochs. Beautiful music, songs and dances. Based on a story by J. B. Priestley. Here you can see the film with my translations: Part 1 (1978) - EN, RU
youtube.com/watch?v=wIb-zEYmPkg
Part 2 (1978) - EN, RU
youtube.com/watch?v=htQZ4hI3BTc
