XXI: My favorite Russian movies
I very much love the Russian cinema. In the 90s, when there was a mess in the country, I was very worried about what will happen to Russian movie in the future? But, it turned out, in vain. Russian culture has won timelessness. In 85% of the list presented auteur films or indie movie. Best Comedy - "Election Day" and "Kiss Them All!"; Best Action - " To Live!" and " Alien Girl"; Best Horror - "Junk" and "Julenka"; Best Cartoon - "My Love" and "Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey". The list includes films of 33 directors. 4 film by Aleksey Balabanov, 3 film by Aleksandr Sokurov and Kiriil Serebrennikov, 2 film by Andrey Zvyagintsev, Mikhail Segal, Pavel Lungin, Aleksey Mizgirev, Aleksey Uchitel, Aleksey Popogrebsky, Vasily Sigarev and Anna Melikyan.
The most successful for Russian cinema was in 2007, 7 films in the list. On 5 films were made in 2011 and 2014, 4 of the film - in 2010 and 2012, 3 the film - in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2009, 2 of the film - in 2000, 2002, 2013, 2015 and 2016 , 1 film - in 2001, 2004 and 2008.
The most successful for Russian cinema was in 2007, 7 films in the list. On 5 films were made in 2011 and 2014, 4 of the film - in 2010 and 2012, 3 the film - in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2009, 2 of the film - in 2000, 2002, 2013, 2015 and 2016 , 1 film - in 2001, 2004 and 2008.
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- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsVladimir GarinIvan DobronravovKonstantin LavronenkoIn the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
- DirectorVyacheslav RossStarsPyotr ZaychenkoMikhail ProtskoSergey NovikovSiberia. The fates of the characters are intertwined unexpectedly and dramatically. They need to make their choice again and again, discovering in themselves the forgotten humanity and compassion. Mercy is greater than justice.
- DirectorMikhail SegalStarsAndrey MerzlikinDarya NosikAndrey PetrovBribes, rudeness, generation gap. A satirical comedy about the peculiarities of Russian life
- DirectorLidiya BobrovaStarsNina ShubinaOlga OnishchenkoAnna OvsyannikovaAn old Russian grandmother, a product of "old" Russia who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, sacrificed everything for her children and even sold her house to get money for her grandchildren, is shuttled among those very grandchildren--products of the "new" Russia--none of whom want her to stay with them since she's too much of a "burden" for them.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsJohannes ZeilerAnton AdasinskyIsolda DychaukA despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsYuriy ChursinVitaliy KhaevMarat BasharovA young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovOleg YankovskiyRamilya IskanderA historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.
- DirectorAleksey MizgiryovStarsNatalya NegodaElena LyadovaDmitriy KulichkovKatya, 45 year old head of the library, falls in love with a sailor. However, he goes on Katie to her best friend. Having inherited from his father's apartment, Kate is ready to give it to the man who kills girlfriend, to take away from her beloved.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsAndrey SmirnovGalina TyuninaOlga BudinaAn attempt to fathom the personal life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey ChadovIan KellyIngeborga DapkunaiteDuring the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
- DirectorAndrey KhrzhanovskiyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhSergey YurskiyGrigoriy DityatkovskiyA semi-fictional account of the life of Nobel-Prize-winning Russian poet Josif Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
- DirectorAlexei PopogrebskyStarsSergey PuskepalisLeonid BronevoySvetlana KamyninaA dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece.
- DirectorVasiliy SigarevStarsYana TroyanovaGosha KutsenkoAndrey IlenkovNew Year in Russian - controlled and ruthless element. While residents preparing for a major national holiday, Lenka Shabadinova works at kiosk till midnight. She does not even know that New Year's Eve has prepared a crazy scenario for her.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsIrina ErmolovaPolina AugKonstantin BalakirevTogether with five Soviet avant-garde artists, hero of the Russian revolution Polina Schneider travels to Siberia to 'civilize' the native Khanty and Nenets tribes, for whom interaction with foreigners is forbidden by the gods, through art.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAgniya KuznetsovaAleksey PoluyanLeonid GromovA young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsEvgeniy MironovEvgeniy TsyganovIrina PegovaA story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.
- DirectorAslan GalazovStarsIrlan KhugayevArtur KhatagovVyacheslav GuriyevPale, thin, cold-sweating Pik (Khugaev) teaches literature at the local university to students so indifferent they play cards and take phone calls while he lectures. "The hell with you," he says, walking out mid-class. It's unclear just why Pik seems so sickly.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsMikhail SkryabinYuriy MatveevAleksandr MosinThe film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg, tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker.
- DirectorAndrey SmirnovStarsDarya EkamasovaNina RuslanovaVladislav AbashinA chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsNadezhda SmirnovaYana EsipovichRoman Mishin23 short stories about the Mari women. Stories joyful and sad, ridiculous and terrible. It is the movie ornament, the movie calendar telling about philosophy, traditions and today of the Mari people.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsMaksim SukhanovDmitriy SutyrinMaria Järvenhelmi"The Role" is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life -- the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger - a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt... even when the play of the life he is writing heads towards a tragic finale. Based on true incidents in the lives of Russia's symbolists, this gripping film explores how far one man will go for the role of a lifetime.
- DirectorPavel LunginStarsPyotr MamonovViktor SukhorukovDmitriy DyuzhevSomewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsIssei OgataRobert DawsonKaori MomoiThird part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
- DirectorVasiliy SigarevStarsOlga LapshinaMarina GavrilovaSasha GavrilovaThe heroes of the film are not ready to put up with their losses. They challenge fate, declare war on it and reach the human limit in it. And they go on, winning in their own way .
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsKseniya RappoportRoman ShmakovYevgeniya KuznetsovaA mother loses her son during a winter visit to a remote town.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsArtyom BystrovNatalya SurkovaYuriy TsuriloDima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
- DirectorGennadiy SidorovStarsValentina BerezutskayaTamara KlimovaAnastasia LyubimovaA small village in the Russian campaign is inhabited only by few old women and a boy. When a family of refugees arrives they are at first opposed by the community, but eventually they'll be accepted and help revive the village.
- DirectorAlexei PopogrebskyStarsGrigoriy DobryginSergey PuskepalisIgor ChernevichOne place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren't communicate.
- DirectorAleksey MizgiryovStarsOleg VasilkovAzamat NigmanovDmitriy KulichkovArmy captain escorting in part-deserter soldier. The heroes spend a day in Moscow, during which face the realities of life in the modern metropolis: sometimes comical, sometimes tragic. The resulting friendship between an officer and a soldier, deserter changes the attitude of the hero to life. Cynical captain again finds the meaning of life and faith in man.
- DirectorAngelina NikonovaStarsOlga DykhovichnayaRoman MerinovSergey GolyudovMarina, an upper-class social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself after having been raped by three policemen.
- DirectorAnna MelikyanStarsRenata LitvinovaKristina IsaykinaMikhail EfremovAbout men, about women, about essential reality of their relationships in bright and good looking Moscow. The whole film is the lecture about love like it is a child of chemistry and psychology. During this lecture we are watching through five or even more love stories about couples trying to pretend that relationship they have is special and outstanding. But the most valuable words said already at the beginning by the woman from the first couple: 'Let's go home. Will be living'. And these words mean the end of love. And the beginning the same time.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
- DirectorSergey LobanStarsPyotr MamonovVera StrokovaAleksey PodolskiyA Cyberwanderer, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea is the first part of Sergei Loban's absurdist dilogy.
- DirectorIlmar RaagDmitry ShelegStarsPolina PushkarukVika LobachovaAndrey AstrakhantsevA young woman who grew up in orphanage is longing to be loved, but does not have it in her to love others. Her teenage looks help her while falsely accused of committing a crime to hide in a orphanage without arousing any suspicion. There, she meets a 13 years old homeless person like herself, Kristina, and together they set out on a long journey to a small town in Kazakhstan, where Kristina's grandmother lives...
- DirectorVyacheslav RossStarsAleksey MaklakovSofya OleynikVladimir DolinskiyAn actor who performs for a children's theater lands a leading role in a new production.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsPyotr SkvortsovViktoriya IsakovaYuliya AugContemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
- DirectorNikolay DostalStarsTimofey TribuntsevGeorgiy FetisovBoris KamorzinA new brother settles in the friary. But dark forces follow him into the monastery and from time to time they materialize as Legion. Legion has chosen Ivan as the object of his devilish work, tempting him in every possible way in an attempt to make him abandon the chosen path of God.
- DirectorMikhail SegalStarsAleksandr ZbruevAleksey KapitonovTatyana MaystAlekseev, a retired singer-songwriter, is invited to a radio program many decades after his career saw a dramatic turn.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSergey MakovetskiyArriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
- DirectorAnna MelikyanStarsTinatin DalakishviliSeverija JanusauskaitePavel TabakovYoung Masha desperately wants to become a star, she saves money for plastic surgery and in parallel, persistently goes to castings and looks after a lonely old man to earn money. Mature Rita is the lover of the deputy minister, who wants to become pregnant and marry him. Kostya is the son of a deputy minister, who is constantly in conflict with his father and Rita, but falls in love with Masha when he meets her. After quarreling, Rita is forced to leave her lover's house, and meets Masha by chance.
- DirectorLyubov LvovaSergey TaramaevStarsAleksandr AlekseevskiyMariya BiorkSergei DorofeyevThe film portraits a complicated journey thru life, love and hate of a homosexual in Russia.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsKonstantin LavronenkoMaria BonnevieAleksandr BaluevA trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
- DirectorAndrey KravchukStarsNikolay SpiridonovMariya KuznetsovaNikolay ReutovSet in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
- DirectorDmitriy MeskhievStarsKonstantin KhabenskiySergey GarmashBen PerinoWith the battle line far away in the east, three soldiers who have managed to escape from captivity find it difficult to hide. An old man offers to help them because one of them, the sniper, is his son.
- DirectorAleksandr KottStarsAleksey KopashovAndrey MerzlikinPavel DerevyankoA war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
- DirectorMikhail PtashukStarsEvgeniy MironovVladislav GalkinYuri KolokolnikovThe movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsVladislav ToldykovDenis ShvedovSergey BelyaevAn ordinary hunter accidentally helps a criminal to escape from his accomplices. Two completely different men tries to reach a distant city, but the price of life will be truly terrifying.
- DirectorAnton BormatovStarsNatalya RomanychevaEvgeniy TkachukKirill PolukhinA Ukrainian mob boss sends a group of henchmen to capture a woman hiding out in the Czech Republic. The plan backfires when she turns out to be a ruthless killer and pits her captors against each other.
- DirectorOleg FominStarsLeonid BaratsRostislav KhaitAleksandr DemidovRadio station gets the task to achieve an election victory for a mysterious client.
- DirectorZhora KryzhovnikovStarsEvgeniya AgenorovaYuliya AleksandrovaDmitriy BurenkovIn a Russian coastal town, Natasha is forced by her stepfather to celebrate her wedding with Roma in the restaurant. They plan to celebrate by the sea and decide to spend their dream wedding in secret from conservative families.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsAleksandr PalamishevAleksandra ZhivovaEvgeniya KryukovaIn nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
- DirectorKonstantin BronzitStarsOleg KulikovichLiya MedvedevaDmitriy VysotskiyAlesha Popovich has to catch Tugarin Zmey and bring back the stolen money money with the help of a talking Horse (which talks all the time and has an opinion on everything), a wise granny, a donkey and a beauty Lyubava.
- DirectorDenis NeymandStarsAlyona BabenkoMikhail EfremovVyacheslav RazbegaevJournalist Marina after an unpleasant professional incident decides to leave journalism. But her editor agrees to this only if Marina makes her last report on a maniac teacher who is in a psychiatric hospital. But almost immediately after the arrival of Marina and her acquaintance with the head doctor, the maniac manages to escape. The search entrusts the investigator Pavel, Marina manages to join him. After a series of operational-search measures, the heroes find themselves in a huge, abandoned country-house village in the vicinity of the city of Azotstal. A mobile phone does not work in this territory, a criminal code does not work, and local residents live according to their own laws.
- DirectorAleksandr StrizhenovStarsMarat BasharovDarya BalabanovaAleksandra DykhneA university professor, who wants to slow down a little, moves with his wife and daughter, from the big city to a small town and starts a new job as a teacher in a girls' gymnasium.