Russian films I've seen
Includes films from the Soviet Union. I know I'm forgetting some.
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- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.The hardest movie I've ever had to watch.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir MenshovMariya PoroshinaA fantasy-horror set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyMariya PoroshinaVladimir MenshovWhen Anton, a Warrior of Light, is falsely accused of murdering some vampires, he embarks on a journey to find the real killer and search for an ancient object that has the power to alter destiny.
- DirectorSergey MokritskiyStarsYuliya PeresildEvgeniy TsyganovOleg VasilkovA story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy ZharikovDuring WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsMayya BulgakovaSergey NikonenkoZhanna BolotovaA fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service and obedience that she cannot adjust to life in peacetime.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsBoris PlotnikovVladimir GostyukhinSergey YakovlevTwo Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
- DirectorGavriil EgiazarovStarsGeorgi ZhzhyonovAnatoliy KuznetsovVadim SpiridonovIn November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Soviet high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.More tanks than have probably been in any other movie.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsNikita MikhalkovVitali SolominSergey ShakurovIn the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.Great film. Make sure and make time to sit through it without stopping, at least once.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsNikita MikhalkovIngeborga DapkunaiteOleg MenshikovIn the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
- DirectorVladimir BortkoStarsMichele PlacidoTatyana DogilevaMikhail ZhigalovThe events of the film take place on the eve of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The son of a high-ranking military man is sent to the paratrooper unit, commanded by Major Bandura.
- DirectorVladimir MotylStarsAnatoliy KuznetsovPavel LuspekayevSpartak MishulinAt the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsMaksim MunzukYuriy SolominMikhail BychkovThe Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.I guess it could also be called a Japanese movie, but I'll put it in here for now.
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsAndrey MartynovIrina DolganovaElena DrapekoDuring 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.Excellent, but get some tissues ready.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsAleksandr DemyanenkoMikhail PugovkinAleksei SmirnovThree stories about Shurik - a young student. He fights against criminals, falls in love, confuses apartments, passes exams - he lives after all.Classic.
- DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsVera AlentovaAleksey BatalovIrina MuravyovaThree young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.Great movie.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey PetrenkoAnatoliy RomashinVelta LineDetails the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.Not particularly accurate historically, and the narrative is a little too episodic, but I think a lot of that probably had to do with the censors. For strange and unhinged artsy-ness, it's a winner.
- DirectorOles YanchukStarsGalina SulimaGeorgiy MorozyukAleksey GorbunovThis film looks at the artificial famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine through the eyes of a single family. The famine, which killed millions of people, was the result of a Soviet policy intended to punish Ukrainians for opposing the collectivization of their farms.It's a Ukrainian film, but I thought it should go on here nonetheless.
- DirectorPavel ChukhrayStarsVladimir MashkovYekaterina RednikovaMikhail FilipchukA woman meets a man who isn't the right man for her - but she hasn't realised it yet...I first heard of this movie twenty years ago, and after a lot of searching I found it. Then I found out that the international ending and the Russian ending weren't the same, so I put off watching it. After a random fit of annoyance, I decided to watch the shorter version, which was still great. But it still bugged me that I couldn't see the long one. I even looked on Ozon (the Russian Amazon) to see if they had the long version, which they didn't. After a lot of digging, I found the original ending online, and while my Russian isn't that good, I could follow the ending. It was a good movie and I enjoyed it a lot, but I can't believe how hard it was for me to find any version of it, let alone the Russian ending.
- DirectorAndrey KravchukStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyElizaveta BoyarskayaSergey BezrukovThe story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution.
- DirectorNikolay LebedevStarsDanila KozlovskiyOleg MenshikovSvetlana IvanovaBiopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death.
- DirectorPavel ParkhomenkoStarsYaroslav ZhalninMikhail FilippovVladimir SteklovOn April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 106 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union.
- DirectorKaren OganesyanStarsElizaveta BoyarskayaAleksey DmitrievAndrey FedortsovMay 1945, a young pilot Aleksey Kaverin stationed in Germany is going home to Russia for vacation. The problem is he needs to bring a bride. And not only to himself but to four his friends as well.
- DirectorLevan GabriadzeStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyMilla JovovichIvan UrgantA school teacher from a small Russian town falls for a beautiful Moscow woman who is engaged to be married.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSvetlana PismichenkoAn ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- DirectorVera StorozhevaStarsArtur SmolyaninovAnna StarshenbaumSergey PuskepalisA romance fantasy humorous situations cleverly made, with a perfume of youth and romance modern, in which prejudice and Christian spirituality are not lacking in a medley that culminates with hope and confidence that up there somebody loves nothing not by chance.
- 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.
- DirectorAndrey KavunStarsAleksandr BaluevYury BelyayevBogdan BenyukBased on the true story of five Russian pilots captured by the Taliban. They are forced to spend three-hundred-seventy-eight days in hell, while facing questions of loyalty, survival and planing their treacherous escape route home.
- DirectorGor KirakosianStarsIvan StebunovIngrid OlerinskayaVladimir YaglychFour Russian friends come from Moscow to Las Vegas to get 5 million dollars they've won in lottery. But everything goes wrong, when they discover that someone stole their winning ticket.
- DirectorOleg AsadulinStarsPavel ChinaryovSvetlana UstinovaVitaliya KornienkoContemporary Russia. A young couple finds a great deal on a used BMW. Unfortunately, it's haunted.
- DirectorOleg FesenkoStarsValeriy NikolaevEvgeniya KryukovaLembit UlfsakIvan, a cynical journalist, is assigned to investigate mysterious events in a small town. During his first night, he is seduced by a strange and mysterious girl. As they embrace, she transforms into a hideous demon. Ivan fights the creature, managing to strangle it. But it is too late, Evil has been unleashed. When Ivan is charged for the brutal murder, he feels his last hope disappear. As he is overcome by the dark forces trying to pose as his soul, Ivan comes to realize that his only hope lies in his power to find the faith that he once lost.
- 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.
- DirectorRoman BarabashStarsViktoriya BulitkoZhanna EppleEkaterina GulyakovaContemporary Russia. Katya, an attractive 23-year-old make-up artist from a small-town theater, comes to the big city to seek her fortune.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovYaroslav ChevazhevskiyIgnas JonynasStarsDmitry MedvedevAlina BulynkoSergey PokhodaevNew Year's events take place in 11 cities: Kaliningrad, Kazan, Perm, Ufa, Bavlakh, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Yakutsk, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
- DirectorVladimir YankovskiyStarsElena BiryukovaAndrey KuznetsovSvetlana NemolyaevaWhen an angel grants his wish that his wife Viktoriya was a successful businesswoman at work, a culinary expert in the kitchen, and a sexy mistress in the bedroom, Oleg learns that she is already the perfect wife just as she is.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsTatyana SamoylovaAleksey BatalovVasiliy MerkurevVeronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
- DirectorEduard ParriStarsMikhail TarabukinVladimir MenshovSergey ShakurovRecently, Slavik has started to question the meaning of life and he has not found a positive or satisfactory answer. On the brink of suicide and about to end it all, Slavik is offered a chance to alter the outcome of his life.
- DirectorVyacheslav LavrovStarsNatalya AntonovaDmitriy BederinPolina TarasovaMarina is a 37-year-old divorcee who raises her 12-year-old daughter alone and works as a teacher at an art school. It seems to Marina that her ordinary life is already over until she accidentally meets Nikita. The young man falls instantly in love with Marina and will do anything to be with her. Marina loves Nikita too but is more than aware of the 17-year age gap between them. Nikita does not see their difference in age as an obstacle and is ready to marry Marina immediately. But Marina is afraid for their future and worried that people will disapprove. She hesitates and runs back to her hometown where her parents introduce her to their new neighbour Igor, a decent and responsible man, who is the same age as Marina. He too falls in love with her, and she agrees to marry him, but will Nikita let go of the woman he loves so easily?
- DirectorDmitriy KiselevStarsEvgeniy MironovKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir IlinTrying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.
- DirectorAleksandr KottAleksandr BaranovLevan GabriadzeStarsSergey SvetlakovIvan UrgantEvgeniya AbramovaShortly before the New Year, Borya loses his memory, and the only clue that can help is the inscription Z.G. which he discovers on his hand. At the same time, the police captain is trying to solve personal problems.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsKirill PirogovYan TsapnikMikhail Kremer1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long awaited return home gets put on hold for one last mission: bring the General's son back. Based on true events the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals the danger the horror and the complexity of human nature during wartime.
- DirectorKlim ShipenkoStarsMilos BikovicVadim DemchogIvan OkhlobystinAn ill-behaved, greedy man wakes up in a 19th century village and finds he is a peasant.
- DirectorAleksandr KottLevan GabriadzeAleksandr KarpilovskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyIvan UrgantSergey SvetlakovTwo years later, they are with us again: our beloved Yolki heroes in the most incredible New Year stories. Borya and Zhenya, whose one-year-old children will take their friends to a psychiatric hospital on the eve of the holiday.
- DirectorEvgeniy ShelyakinStarsDanila KozlovskiyNastasya SamburskayaKaterina ShpitsaFriday night is almost like a shortened New year's night. One can expect every kind of surprises on that night. Friday night has its special magic.