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)
http://youtu.be/DwOwloK6chA (I have translated this film, ask me for the link) - 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)