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Top 10 Movies from Russia and the Soviet Union


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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
films from Russia and the Soviet Union
effectivity Deepika desu you say daddy
you pee on it is ruled by Soviet
socialists for most of the 20th century
this Eurasian country has had its fair
share of censorship yes it became a
school good but it’s also experienced
incredible eras of artistic freedom
without the good ox whether Russian
movie makers were creating insightful
art films or pumping out pure propaganda
they were always changing the game with
their rewarding challenging work no DNA
specially for this list we’re looking at
the very best movies to come out of
Mother Russia either during the Soviet
era or in post-soviet Russia number 10
russian ark quickiy pretty good asana TV
who would have thought a crash course in
history could be so jaw-droppingly
gorgeous filmed inside the Hermitage
Museum in st. Petersburg
yeah buddy Wilson Road enabled rose
alexander Sakharov spectacular pageant
follows a ghostly narrator as he travels
through 300 years of Russian history the
league in total stated the food 70 with
a run time of 96 minutes
this monumental movie stars 2,000 actors
moving between 33 rooms and the whole
thing was shot in one long take at the
procedure opera needs a rose Shinya
sketches oof
finished in less than a day and
featuring truly unbelievable
choreography Russian Arc is a brilliant
testament to post-soviet filmmaking Lu
Babu number nine
Andrei Rublev luka burger sugar shot for
the most part in haunting
black-and-white this period piece is one
of several Andrei Tarkovsky films to
make our list burger Davey but Regina to
do video set in the brutal world of
medieval Russia this epic follows Andrei
Rublev history’s greatest icon painter
on his journey from idealistic monk to
skeptical cynic back to a believer I owe
to the 3t vodka music the yuccas IV you
had to boil it a shot
yesterday both lyrically beautiful and
shockingly violent Tarkovsky’s film
Ponder’s the artists role in a world
plagued by cruelty and bloodshed
hullabaloo career superconductor what a
village
the film was so complex spiritually and
politically that the Soviets banned this
masterpiece for years before releasing a
censored version in 1971 short hmm
number 8 the mirror it’s a thick pine
yet you’re pretty chipper the epitome of
art house Andrei Tarkovsky is the mirror
doesn’t need a plot to convey its
powerful emotions to be pressed into is
this cuz it’s loosely based on the
directors life yeah
this avant-garde drama shows the world
through the eyes of a dying man who
remembers the various stages of his
short life who’s we did time don’t go
into the boat that you took the goodbye
yet sir
flashing backwards and forwards in time
the mirror also changes from black and
white to color and includes passages of
poetry read by Tarkovsky’s dad you got a
big old pot alone in video me slow-mo
not me blood comb TD despite sensors
best efforts to shelve the film the
mirror lives on as Tarkovsky’s most
personal work hatsue Tabo
Tommy produced ona’s new video number 7
the cranes are flying that most XD who
is a granular yeah but we might need
break even millions of Russians died in
World War two but until the 1950s film
makers were forbidden from discussing
these horrors what is it
so when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
gave artists freedom to explore taboo
subjects you Kyle coladas off created
the cranes are flying
this heartbreaking drama tells the story
of two lovers separated by war not only
does it feature realistic battle scenes
it focuses on the struggles of women
left behind you and you yes but you
bitch
this is gate mad okay you’re viewing me
this anti-war film changed how many
Westerners viewed Soviets and even won
the Palme d’Or
number six come and see our dish
check out uske by one of the most
horrifying movies ever made this grisly
film follows a 13 year old boy who’s
plunged into hell when Nazis invade his
homeland hoping for glory and excitement
the boy joins up with Russian partisans
but after Germans murder his family he
slowly descends into madness taking its
title from a chapter in the book of
Revelation come and see features some of
the most disturbing images of any war
film ever
bloody shocking and emotionally
devastating this Soviet film is a
scathing attack on war itself
number five man with a movie camera
who needs a story when you got a camera
working over three years in three
different cities radical director
Seagoville Tov created man with a movie
camera
a silent documentary that purportedly
shows what an ordinary day in an average
Soviet town would look like
in addition to amazing images of city
life and meta shots of the cameraman and
editor vetrov’s
experimental classic pioneered film
techniques such as split screens jump
cuts slow-motion and Dutch angles
basically man with a movie camera wrote
the book on editing and cinematography
number four Solaris least I’m livid I’ll
give you each a shallot creature when
psychologist Chris Kelvin arrives on a
mysterious Space Station
he finds himself lost in a world where
past and present collide philetus note
ya polomoche the british lineage to
choose which end he motivate floating
above the ocean planet of Solaris Chris
discovers the cosmonaut crew suffering
from severe psychological problems
and that’s when his dead wife shows up
which may or may not give Chris a chance
to make amends for past mistakes a
patient film full of dreamlike shots
Solaris isn’t your standard space opera
instead andrei tarkovsky sci-fi
masterpiece is a slow-moving meditation
on love loss and grief these animals
ripple viciousness 10c this is Naish
number 3
war and peace movie Mabon dude was NATO
Momofuku day ismenia Vietnam it at over
seven hours long this cinematic take on
Leo Tolstoy is classic novel gives new
meaning to the word epic mr. Suder
fatigue a bit short on the Yavin vitami
Magoo is big a story the most expensive
Soviet film of its day director sergei
bondarchuk successfully turned a
supposedly unfilmable book into a
full-blown spectacle I mean usually
definition some locals by lady city oh I
just talked with a book with buzzer
released in four parts Warren piece
follows lovers caught in the Napoleonic
war and features a cast in the tens of
thousands
he loves dealing I say she goes yeah but
I hope you will agree MC napkin a
skipper go Vanya yeah just Najma with
historical props beautiful costumes and
elaborate battle scenes starring actual
soldiers worn piece impressed audiences
everywhere and won an Oscar for Best
Foreign Language Film mr. Daniel
mr. donnegal Luchini later I said number
two stalker
it did miss Lola del there should tip it
by day what would you do to make your
wishes come true in andrei tarkovsky
surreal art drama people must travel
into the zone a mysterious site fenced
off from the world
acoustic Avenue is Cooper’s evolution
about the mature stage led by a
professional guide called a stalker
two men head into the zone to find the
fabled room a mystical chamber that
fulfills dreams your nickel does
something good or you’re sick w’s when
you bits the religious pick up the stars
or should it’s full of long takes and
otherworldly imagery this cult favorite
is an eerie experience that demands your
full attention and strangely shadows the
Chernobyl disaster seven years before it
occurred mmm total solution work a shit
chip cheerio loses before we unveil our
top pick here are a few honorable
mentions never think it was me so wasn’t
me solution every breath
number one battleship potemkin
directed by Sergei Eisenstein this is
often hailed as one of the greatest
movies ever made ordered by the Soviets
to commemorate the 20th anniversary of
the Potemkin mutiny this masterwork of
silent propaganda tells the story of
sailors who rise up against their cruel
commanders
but when their rebellion spreads onshore
the Czarist government strikes back
leading to a bloody massacre and one of
cinema’s greatest scenes
a powerful and politically charged flip
battleship potemkin also introduced the
world to the film technique known as
montage
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favorite Soviet or Russian film
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