Image of Western world in Soviet Cinema
The list is borrowed from the article "Western world on Soviet and Russian screens" by Aleksandr Fyodorov. It shows how perception of life in the West was changing in Soviet Union since 1946 till 1991. War movies about WW2 were excluded due to their specificity.
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- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsAleksei DikijEvgeniy SamoylovVladimir VladislavskiyAdmiral Pavel Nakhimov, one of the most acclaimed admirals in Russian history, fights the Turkish fleet during the Crimean War of 1853.
- DirectorAleksandr ZguridiStarsOleg ZhakovYelena IzmailovaLev SverdlinThe history of the wild wolf, who picked up the boy and raised an Indian. After falling to the evil man - the owner of the bar, White Fang turned into a ferocious evil beast, coming out victorious from all the dog fights, which suited his enterprising owner.
- DirectorNadezhda KosheverovaMikhail ShapiroStarsYanina ZheymoAleksey KonsovskiyErast GarinA young woman forced into servitude by her step-family gets a chance to attend the royal ball.
- DirectorAleksandr AndriyevskyStarsPavel KadochnikovYuriy LyubimovAnatoliy SmiraninA man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsVsevolod AksyonovYelena KuzminaMikhail AstangovMcPherson and Gould, the owners of a dozen reactionary American newspapers, are systematically conducting a slanderous campaign against the Soviet Union. In order to get "fresh" material, they send journalist Harry Smith to Russia. Returning from Russia, Smith feels that he is not able to fulfill the order of the newspaper owners. Contrary to everything, Smith decides to write the truth about the Russian people. McPherson widely advertises a future book. But after reading the true work of a journalist, McPherson enters into a frantic rage.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsVladimir SolovyovGrigori BelovAleksandra VasilyevaThe heroic life of a Ukrainian agronomist who becomes world famous and who the Bolshevik Revolution allows to cultivate new species of fruit trees as part of a project to transform nature.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsAndrei AbrikosovLev SverdlinBoris Tenin
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovStarsVladlen DavydovKonstantin NassonovBoris AndreyevAfter the historic April 1945 meeting at the Elbe River in enemy Germany of the allied US and USSR troops, things go sour, the Americans reject Russian friendship,and begin to reinstall the Fascists in their new ally of West Germany.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsVyacheslav GostinskyLiliya GritsenkoNikolai GritsenkoAnna Bedford, a young and idealistic girl from Pennsylvania, accepts a State Department assignment to serve in the US Embassy in Moscow shortly after the allied victory over fascist Germany. Immediately upon her arrival at the new post, she discovers that virtually the entire staff at the embassy is engaged either in espionage or in slandering and vilifying the Soviet state. Her open-minded approach to Soviet reality quickly brings her into conflict with her superiors, who send her back to the States to attend her mother's funeral. While back in Pennsylvania, Anna discovers a changed America, plagued with massive unemployment and hatred fueled by anti-communist hysteria. Even death provides no escape from this national insanity: the cemetery where her mother is buried is plowed under in order to build a new military air base. The film was to end with Anna's return to Moscow, embraced by the masses of the Soviet people and marching with them across Red Square. Work on the film was terminated in April 1951 (under instructions from the Kremlin).
- DirectorAleksandr FaintsimmerVladimir LegoshinStarsNatalya ZashchipinaLeonid KotovPavel KadochnikovThe Great Patriotic War is over, but Major Sorokin and Colonel Dobrygin still have a lot to do for their homeland. They must go to West Germany in order to find and return the children who were taken out of the Soviet Union by the Nazis and are now kept in atrocious conditions under the supervision of British intelligence. Former allies want to grow real spies out of their children.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsLyudmila SkopinaPavel KadochnikovVladimir Druzhnikov(Conspiracy of the Doomed, 1950), a political pamphlet after the same-name play by N. Virta, starring the incomparable Russian singer Aleksandr Vertinsky.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsNikolai KomissarovSergei VecheslovYelena KuzminaLast days of WWII. English and American agents head to Berlin for secret negotiations with nazi leaders.
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsAleksey GribovGrigori SergeyevMargarita LifanovaA Soviet football team overcomes friction.this movie wasn't in list by A.Fyodorov. It was suggested by user on kino-teatr.ru
- DirectorVladimir BraunStarsAnatoliy BovykinBoris AndreyevVyacheslav TikhonovSaved by Russian sailors black boy turned out to be the smart and kind nipper.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsIvan PereverzevBoris LivanovSergey BondarchukHistorical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsIvan PereverzevGennadi YudinVladimir DruzhnikovThe historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France begins aggressive wars. The Russian and allied troops freeing Italy are headed by A. V. Suvorov. The victory in the fortress of Corfu is ensured by operation of the admiral Ushakov.
- DirectorAbram RoomStarsMikhail BoldumanSofiya PilyavskayaValentina UshakovaAn American scientist invents a new weapon of mass destruction - silver dust. Corporate war breaks out between two military industry giants to own the weapon. The scientist dies and his son makes the discovery public with more consequences.
- DirectorLeonid LukovStarsSergey BondarchukLidiya SmirnovaOlga ZhiznevaThe story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Gavrish using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after the Great Patriotic war, known in the West as World War II.
- DirectorAlexander AlekseyevYevgeni AlekseyevStarsNikifor KolofidinTatyana MukhinaVladimir DruzhnikovIn the Ussuri taiga, where an infectious disease is rampant, a saboteur acts to prevent Soviet microbiologists from conducting research on the causes of the epidemic.
- DirectorVladimir GonchukovStarsAleksey VaninVasiliy MerkurevVladimir GulyaevThe young blacksmith Ilya Gromov from the White Keys collective farm wins the title of world wrestling champion.
- DirectorYuri VyshinskyStarsVsevolod PlatovMargarita LifanovaVladimir GulyaevFilm action takes place near border, where the aviation base is located.
- DirectorYan FridStarsKlara LuchkoAlla LarionovaVadim MedvedevBased on Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
- DirectorVladimir KaplunovskiyStarsOleg StrizhenovBoris AndreyevDaniil SagalSet at the outset of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, a young worker decides to fight the well-known boxer Danny Ward in order to secure the funds needed by the revolutionary army to overthrow the Diaz regime.
- DirectorAleksandr FaintsimmerStarsOleg StrizhenovMarianna StrizhenovaNikolai SimonovAgainst the background of Italian Patriots struggle for independence of his homeland, is three people by the tragic destiny of stops. Arthur who has evolved in the revolutionary, cardinal Montanelli and his love Gemma.
- DirectorSergei YutkevichStarsSergey BondarchukIrina SkobtsevaAndrei PopovThe Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- DirectorAdolf BergunkerStarsVladimir KrasnopolskiyVladimir GusevYevgeniya Tenpost-war years. Yakut hunter Bykadyrov discovers mysterious footprints in the taiga leading to the village where the murder of the head of the geological expedition has just been committed. A group of state security officers arrive from Moscow to investigate the crime.Afraid of being exposed, the saboteurs leave the village and run to the agreed place. The task force manages to detain the killers and the crew of the plane that flew in after them.
- DirectorViktor EysymontStarsDaniil SagalSergei YasinskyAlla LarionovaIn the life of Sergei Batashov, a young drummer of a pioneer organization, trouble comes. His father, an engineer at a secret factory, is arrested for losing documents. Guilty of this his stepmother marries and leaves Sergei alone. Using the trustfulness of the boy left to himself in the Batashovs' apartment, a criminal espionage organization was established. Introducing themselves as distant relatives of the boy, they use it for their own purposes, forcing them to acquaint them with his father's colleagues.
- DirectorMikhail VinyarskyStarsOleg ZhakovRoza BalashovaOleg TumanovEmployees of the Soviet counterintelligence, with the help of sailors and ordinary citizens, expose the intrigues of enemy spies and saboteurs.
- DirectorAnatoli RybakovStarsBoris BityukovMark BernesTatyana PiletskayaWhile investigating a regular traffic accident, detectives find evidence of foreign intelligence involvement.
- DirectorKonstantine PipinashviliStarsSergey StolyarovIgor VladimirovSergei GolovanovIn post-war years in the Atlantic Ocean under mysterious circumstances the Soviet Arctic motor ship perishes. At the same time in the Pacific Ocean the French Victoire motor ship explodes. The Soviet crew of well equipped Pioneer submarine should find out a cause of death of two motor ships.
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsViktor DobrovolskyYulian PanichEvgeniy SamoylovA Soviet propaganda film on the subject of mockery of Ukrainians, the film distorts the history of the Hetmanate, and elements of Ukrainophobia are present.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsEvgeniya KozyrevaMikhail KozakovNikolai KomissarovDuring World War II, an actress in France discovers that her beloved only child is collaborating with the Fascist enemy.This was a rare Soviet film about that war which did not involve Russian characters.
- DirectorLev ArnshtamHristo PiskovMikhail RommStarsStefan SavovTzvetana ArnaudovaIvan TonevGeorgi Dimitrov is on his way to Berlin, which is controlled by the Nazis. Hitler, Gyobbels and Gyoring plan the Reichstag fire. Van der Lube sets the Reichstag on fire. This triggers off a wave of arrests. The Communists have to go underground. Dimitrov is arrested. The German consul in Bulgaria refuses to receive his mother. She leaves for Germany. All over Europe, signatures are gathered in support of the detainees. At the court hearings, Dimitrov exposes the provocative policy of the Nazi government. Gyoring takes the witness stand. His speech on the grand future in store for Nazism is intermingled with actuality sequences from the World War II: victims, executions, death camps... Dimitrov is granted Soviet citizenship and leaves the fascist jail.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsNikolay CherkasovYuriy TolubeevSerafima BirmanSenor 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.
- DirectorAnatoliy DudorovYevgeniy ZilbershteynStarsMariya VinogradovaSergei GolovanovYelizaveta KuzyurinaThe is film based on the works of Oscar Wilde: according to the fairy tales "Star-Boy", "Infanta's Birthday"
- DirectorErazm KaramyanStepan KevorkovStarsBoris SmirnovMaria PastukhovaGurgen TonuntsThe first movie of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary Simon Ter-Petrosyan, known as Kamo.
- DirectorMariya AfanasyevaStarsTatyana AlekseevaEvgeniy BalievFeodosiya BarvinskayaA group of Soviet expelled citizens after WW2 tries to get back to homeland from one of camps in Western Germany.
- DirectorLeonid EstrinStarsAndrei GoncharovGenrikh OstashevskyNikolai MuravyovAn officer accidentally leaks information about the first test of a new aircraft model. When spies get hold of this classified information, the development of the new airplane is under threat.
- DirectorYuli KhmelnitskyStarsGeorg OtsMarina YurasovaAnatoly KorolkevichA mysterious man under the name Mister Iks performs in the circle, playing violin on a chair suspended in the air by ropes. His breathtakingly sad melodies reflect his internal turmoil - he's in love with a noble lady and this relationship is frowned upon in their society. A beautiful story of friendship, love, and circus, accompanied by the astonishing voices of the actors.
- DirectorDmitriy VasilevStarsAfanasi KochetkovTatyana KonyukhovaNina NikitinaThe story of the exposure of a foreign intelligence agent who came under suspicion of vigilant collective farmers and law enforcement officials.
- DirectorNikita KurikhinTeodor VulfovichStarsNikolai KryukovVladislav MuratovMikhail GluzskiyA boy must reach civilization on a plane for saving his wounded father.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovStarsBela Rudenko
- DirectorViktor IvchenkoStarsAleksandr AnurovMikhail KuznetsovVyacheslav TikhonovThe crew of a soviet cargo falls prey to an act of piracy in waters between China and Taiwan, and are taken to Taiwan where they are pressured into stating they chose to go into the free world.
- DirectorIgor YeltsovStarsRein ArenHilja VaremHeino Mandri
- DirectorManos ZachariasStarsRuslan AkhmetovAndrei Pelevin
- DirectorManos ZachariasStarsGeorgi ChernovolenkoMikhail GluzskiyOtar KoberidzeThe young man Nikolos is forced to engage in the fishing of sea sponges in order to get the hand of the beautiful Lenio. This work makes him a cripple, and marriage to his beloved does not bring happiness.
- DirectorDmitriy VasilevStarsVasili MakarovOleg ZhakovLeonid ChubarovAbout the Soviet border guards who declassified the operation called "Cobra", organized by foreign intelligence. The purpose of this operation is to take daily photographs of a military facility.
- DirectorVladimir DenisenkoStarsPavel MorozenkoLyudmila GurchenkoAnatoliy Skibenko1941 A Soviet merchant ship arrived at an Italian port. Sailor Roman heard the singing of the beautiful Francesca and fell in love. But the war broke out and separated the lovers.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovStarsLyubov OrlovaAndrei PopovPavel Kadochnikov58-year-old actress Orlova plays a beauty who makes visitors from the capitalist states change their, western media influenced, opinion of the Soviet Union when their plane makes a stop in Siberia and then arrives to Moscow. The visitors are impressed with the Soviet Union's prosperity and technological progress, such as space technology.
- DirectorGrigori NikulinStarsAnatoli AbramovViktor ChekmaryovIrina DavydovaTeleplay on "The Debauchees, Or The Jesuit Caught" by Henry Fielding.
- DirectorKhangeldy AgahanovViktor ZakStarsArtyk DzhallyyevAman KulmamedovYevgeniy MarkovSecret documents are hidden in ruins of ancient fortress Kum-Basan-Kala in Middle Asia for further transportation abroad. Foreign intelligence sends special agent to get them.
- DirectorAleksandr PtushkoStarsAnastasiya VertinskayaVasiliy LanovoyYelena CheremshanovaA little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be loved and happy." The neighbours told jokes about her, children teased her, but she waited for her prince. She trusted in the miracles and waited. Arthur Gray's rule was "if you can make a miracle, do it!". And he made a miracle for the wonderful romantic girl.
- DirectorLeonid TraubergAndrey TutyshkinStarsLionella PyryevaNadezhda RumyantsevaAleksandr LazarevAfter the departure of the German troops, the owner of the port left the city, but after a while he returned. Having deceived a girl, he forces her to marry him, but she, realizing the deception, escapes and, with the help of his friends, disrupts the supply of weapons to the fascists.
- DirectorManos ZachariasStarsBoris IvanovManos Zacharias
- DirectorPavel KlushantsevStarsVladimir EmelyanovGeorgi ZhzhyonovGennadi VernovCosmonauts land on the planet Venus. However, they find themselves in danger from the voracious monsters they find on it.
- DirectorVladimir FetinStarsAleksey GribovIvan DmitrievMargarita NazarovaA comedy about tigers and lions running around a cruise ship full of passengers.
- DirectorEduard AbalovLeonid GaidaiEldar RyazanovStarsAnatoliy PapanovSergey FilippovSerafim AnikeyevAn interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsOlga Reus-PetrenkoEduard KoshmanYuriy GulyayevUkrainian singer, who has just won an international contest, recollects her life journey from childhood, through WWII, to the present day.
- DirectorVladimir ChebotaryovGennadiy KazanskiyStarsVladimir KorenevAnastasiya VertinskayaMikhail KozakovPeople living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of Doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiandr can live underwater. This gives him certain advantages, but creates a lot of problems.
- DirectorBoris DyozhkinStarsNina GulyaevaErast GarinSergey MartinsonAn oppressed vegetables and fruits rebel against tyranny leading by Chipollino, an onion boy.
- DirectorYuri VyshinskyStarsVsevolod YakutNikolai ProkopovichAnts EskolaAmerican submarine goes on position for missile attack of the USSR. All crew is tired and nervous. Moscow radio announce a special newscast, and captain commands ship combat readiness.
- DirectorGenrikh GabayStarsVladimir BuyanovskyViktor PivnenkoVladimir ShibankovFor 49 days, four young soldiers drifted on a barge that was blown out to sea by a storm. Only by the end of the seventh week they were discovered by American pilots.
- DirectorGrigori NikulinStarsVladimir ChestnokovOtar KoberidzeLev KruglyyTransatlantic flight 713 is in trouble because the pilot and crew are poisoned while flying above the ocean. Now the passengers have to take control to save their lives.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsRostislav PlyattGeorgiy VitsinYuriy NikulinTwo bandits learn that kidnapping is a very profitable business. So they decide to kidnap local rich person's son in hope to get a substantial ransom.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsNikolay YeryomenkoTamara MakarovaZhanna BolotovaA man returning to his family in the USSR of the 1960s revisits his past in flashbacks: his time with the Germans during WWII and after,and his time in Argentina.
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsErast GarinVladimir MastrukovRostislav PlyattThree novels about time of the Great Depression in the USA, based on short stories "The Game", "The Happiest Man on Earth" and "Afternoon in the Jungle" by Albert Maltz.
- DirectorVladimir GorikkerStarsPyotr GlebovSergei LemeshevAleksandr PirogovFilm version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story.
- DirectorVladimir DenisenkoStarsNikolay GrinkoGeorgiy VitsinYefim KopelyanPost war Middle East, Soviet specialists are building hydroelectric power station. Their British rivals conceal information about German underground ammunition storage nearby, hoping that accidental blast will help them to get contract back. But some of their employees think another way, as they still remember being brothers in arms with Soviets a short time ago.
- DirectorSergey KolosovStarsLev SverdlinVsevolod YakutVladimir DruzhnikovAfter Cuban revolution and nationalization former bank bosses want to get their money back and send their man Garcia to bank executive Maksimo to organize larceny. But Maksimo is not sure that he has to help his old employers.
- DirectorAnatoliy BobrovskiyAleksandr SeryyStarsVladimir KrasnopolskiyLionella PyryevaYuriy GorobetsThe work of the young scientist Igor Panteleev created a sensation. It is not surprising that foreign intelligence was interested in him. Soviet Chekists are taking measures to protect the scientist.
- DirectorMikheil ChiaureliStarsBruno O'YaVeriko AnjaparidzeSofiko ChiaureliA ex-pilot polish immigrant falls in love with a polish girl whom he tries to save from a strip-tease career. He flies on a secret mission only to find out that the plane is going to nuke the Soviet Union.
- DirectorNadezhda KosheverovaMikhail ShapiroStarsErast GarinLidiya SukharevskayaSvetlana LoshchininaA wandering musician falls in love with a princess who they want to give for an old king from a neighboring kingdom, a petty tyrant and a scoundrel. But love overcomes obstacles and connects the hearts of lovers.
- DirectorAleksandr RouStarsOlga YukinaTatyana YukinaTatyana BaryshevaOlya and Yalo save the people of the looking glass from lies.
- DirectorSergei AlekseyevStarsYuri KoltsovVladlen DavydovIrina GoshevaTV adaptation of play "Now Let Him Go" by John Boynton Priestley.