Banned Soviet films
These films were banned in the USSR for political reasons.
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- DirectorAleksandr AskoldovStarsNonna MordyukovaRolan BykovRaisa NedashkovskayaKlavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life."Комиссар" (Commissar)
- DirectorAleksandr OrlovMark ZakharovStarsYuri BelovOleg VidovValentina TelichkinaFrom Moscow to the provincial town of Nizhnie Volchki, a young and handsome doctor Igor Maksimov comes to work. He is liked by his colleagues, including the young nurse Alena."Стоянка поезда — две минуты" (Train Stop – Two Minutes)
A musical film and a fairy tale. In this film, Mark Zakharov debuted as a director, he also wrote the script. Alla Pugacheva took part in most of the vocals. From 1979 to 1987 the film lay on the shelf, due to the departure of Boris Sichkin and Oleg Vidov abroad.
https://youtu.be/OVn2u1L6zkM (no subtitles) - 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am5LIBBsTVk (1 part, no subtitles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpfIoZmlls4 (1 part, no subtitles)
The film was shown once on TV and then banned until perestroika.
https://youtu.be/wIb-zEYmPkg (1 part) and https://youtu.be/htQZ4hI3BTc (2 part)
(both with my subtitles in English and Russian) - DirectorVitaliy MelnikovStarsOleg DalIrina KupchenkoIrina ReznikovaEngineer Zilov, having woken up, finds the funeral wreath at his place - his friends' present. This rather symbolic joke makes him recollect the previous night as well as 2 last months."Отпуск в сентябре". The film was banned until perestroika.
- DirectorYuriy LysenkoStarsVasiliy ShukshinValeriy KorolVera Predayevich"Мы, двое мужчин" (We, Two of Men)
https://youtu.be/lZkunp6Trxw (my subtitles: English, Russian) - DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsSergey YurskiyYuriy YakovlevAnatoliy PapanovIn a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia."Человек ниоткуда" (The Man from Nowhere). The film was banned from 1961 to 1988.
- DirectorNadezhda KosheverovaStarsPyotr KirillovYevgeniya VdovinaGalina IvanovskayaLeningrad 1939. The talented girl Galya, completes her sculptor father's unfinished work when he leaves for the Soviet-Finnish Winter War and does not give any news."Галя" (Galya).
https://youtu.be/GvM9huaYMfo (my subtitles: English, French, Swedish, Finnish, Russian) - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovSerafima BirmanPavel KadochnikovAs Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar."Иван Грозный", часть 2 (Ivan the Terrible, Part II). The film was completed in 1946 and then banned. It was released only in 1958.
https://youtu.be/i5g-Ss9BDR4 (subtitles: English, Spanish, etc) - DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsIya SavvinaLyubov SokolovaAleksandr SurinAbout gentle, tender and proud love of Asya, a lame woman, and the driver Stepan who is a good-for-nothing person."История Аси Клячиной, которая любила, да не вышла замуж" (The Story of Asya Klyachina). The film was banned during the Soviet times for its realistic portrayal of the peasantry.