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The Uprooted Survive
Author | : V. L. Borin |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1959 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UOM:39015016451984 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
The Uprooted
Author | : Dorit Bader Whiteman |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2007-10-10 |
ISBN 10 | : 0738212075 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780738212074 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Whiteman, who escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria with her family, is now a clinical psychologist in New York. Her impassioned, riveting study of the Jews who managed to leave Germany and Austria before Hitler implemented mass executions and death camps is based partly on interviews with 190 escapees. She tells the incredible story of the Kindertransport operation, which took 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied countries to England by train and ferry. Adolf Eichmann, then an emigration official, disdainfully approved this mass exodus. We learn of the formidable barriers escapees faced in getting out, of horrid or supportive foster homes, of the trauma and pain of being forcibly uprooted. Many escapees endured years of poverty before re-establihsing themselves. Whiteman rejects Hannah Arendt's thesis that German Jews' cultural assimilation led to their political blindness in a 'fool's paradise.' This is a distinctive contribution to Holocaust literature.
The Uprooted
Author | : Oscar Handlin |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2002-02-20 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780812217889 |
ISBN 13 | : 0812217888 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Tyranny - deluxe edition upgrade pack crack. 'Oscar Handlin was the scholar most responsible for establishing the legitimacy of immigration history.'--Gary Gerstle, author ofAmerican Crucible
Words of the Uprooted
Author | : Robert A. Rockaway |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
ISBN 10 | : 1501724630 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781501724633 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
American Jewish leaders, many of German extraction, created the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 in order to disperse unemployed Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller Jewish communities throughout the United States. The IRO was designed to help refugees from persecution in the Pale of Russia find jobs and community support and, secondarily, to reduce the Manhattan ghettoes and minimize antisemitism. In twenty-one years, the IRO distributed seventy-nine thousand East European Jews to over fifteen hundred cities and towns, including Chino, California; Des Moines, Iowa; and Pensacola, Florida. Wherever they went, these twice-displaced immigrants wrote letters to the IRO's main office. Robert A. Rockaway has selected, and translated from Yiddish, letters that describe the immigrants' new surroundings, work conditions, and living situations, as well as letters that give voice to typical tensions between the immigrants and their benefactors. Rockaway introduces the letters with an essay on conditions in the Pale and on early American Jewish attempts to assist emigrants.
The Time of the Uprooted
Author | : Elie Wiesel |
Publsiher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2007 |
ISBN 10 | : 0805211772 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780805211771 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Tormented by feelings of loss and dispossession after spending his life fleeing first the Nazis and then the 1956 Russian invasion of Hungary, Gamaliel Friedman finally settles in New York, where he works as a ghostwriter and meets a fellow group of exiles, which includes a rabbi whose mystical beliefs finally offer him a chance to reconcile with the past. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
Ways to Survive Battles to Win
Author | : Halleh Ghorashi |
Publsiher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN 10 | : 9781590335529 |
ISBN 13 | : 159033552X |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Contemporary debates in social sciences are replete with metaphors of displacement such as diaspora, exile, hybridity, and nomadism. Halleh Ghorashi explores the cultural and political implications of such terms and demonstrates how the social and political contexts of the host countries play a crucial role in influencing the experiences of diasporic communities. Focusing on the life stories of Iranian women whose leftist political activism has led them to exile in the West, she offers at once powerful narratives of cultural dislocation and a compelling critique of social theories that privilege ethnicity over social location. Addressing a wide range of theoretical positions and social discourses, Ghorashi shows how a community of women in exile with the same cultural and political background differ markedly in the way they come to define themselves in the Netherlands and the United States. Through interviews with Iranian women exiles in Amsterdam and Southern California, Ghorashi shows the dynamic and complex process of cultural identification. In presenting the stories of politically leftist women who became homeless in their own country, this book touches upon the question of how people in exile position themselves in space and time. The Iranian women's narratives of both internal and external exile contribute to a new understanding of home that is far more complex and multi-layered than is often assumed. The extensive presence of the author throughout the book as she conveys her own emotional reactions to the research and the women's narratives also contributes to an exceptional work about what women refugees go through before and after they find their place in the new world. In Ways to Survive, Battles to Win, Ghorashi travels with the women of her book as they tell of their lives past and present. A cultural anthropologist, the author carefully balances her personal perspective with a scientific framework that brings past memories and present challenges in a way that will not be forgotten.
Uprooting and Development
Author | : George V. Coelho |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
ISBN 10 | : 1468437941 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781468437942 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Uprooting has to do with one of the fundamental properties of human life-the need to change-and with the personal and societal mecha nisms for dealing with that need. As with the more general problems of change, uprooting can be a time of human disaster and desolation, or a time of adaptation and growth into new capacities. The special quality of uprooting is that the need to change is faced at a time of separation from accustomed social, cultural, and environ mental support systems. It is this separation from familiar supports that either renders the uprooted vulnerable to the destructive conse quences of change, or creates freedoms for their evolution into new and constructive patterns of life. Whether the outcomes will be destruc tive or constructive will be determined by the forces at work: the nature and power of the uprooting forces versus the personal and societal capacities for coping with them. Uprooting events are so widespread as to be compared with the major rites of life, but with the difference that dislocation is involved. Uprooting reaches from self-imposed movements such as rural-to urban migration, running away, and traveling abroad for schooling, to natural and man-made disasters such as earthquakes, political oppres sion, and war. The impacts vary from the need to adapt to. a new culture for an interim period of study to the desolating consequences of the total loss of family, friends, home, and country.
Uprooted Minds
Author | : Nancy Caro Hollander |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
ISBN 10 | : 1135468745 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781135468743 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In our post-9/11 environment, our sense of relative security and stability as privileged subjects living in the heart of Empire has been profoundly shaken. Hollander explores the forces that have brought us to this critical juncture, analyzing the role played by the neoliberal economic paradigm and conservative political agenda that emerged in the West over the past four decades with devastating consequences for the hemisphere's citizens. Narrative testimonies of progressive U.S. and Latin American psychoanalysts illuminate the psychological meanings of living under authoritarian political conditions and show how a psychoanalysis 'beyond the couch' contributes to social struggles on behalf of human rights and redistributive justice. By interrogating themes related to the mutual effects of social power and ideology, large group dynamics and unconscious fantasies, affects and defenses, Hollander encourages reflections about our experience as social/psychological subjects.
Dare to Survive
Author | : Rick and Amy Rinehart |
Publsiher | : Kensington Publishing Corp. |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008-08-01 |
ISBN 10 | : 0806535997 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780806535999 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
With its towering mountains, sun-scorched deserts, fierce wildlife, and hard-to-predict weather, the American West ranks among the most forbidding places on Earth. Yet many are drawn to the beauty of this wild and rugged region. Some are daredevils. . .some are athletes. . .and some are outdoors enthusiasts who find themselves in a chilling battle for survival. In their extraordinary, heart-stopping true stories, you will discover how much can go wrong when people find themselves caught in the cross-hairs of nature's power. . . Dare To Survive Flash floods, plane crashes, animal attacks, avalanches, landslides--these devastating phenomena all too often claim the lives of men, women, and children in the American West. But some beat the odds, living to tell about their terrifying ordeals. There are inspirational stories of extreme survival and tremendous bravery. Of the hiker who--though armed with only a knife--survived a 30-minute nightmare with a cougar. . .of the backcountry snowboarder buried alive by an avalanche, saved with only minutes to spare. . .of the outdoorsman pinned by an 800-pound boulder who freed himself by amputating his own arm. And there are the unexplainable, senseless tragedies--the little girl whose mysterious disappearance at a national park was never solved. . . the inexperienced charter pilot who crashed trying to beat curfew in a snowstorm. . .and the veteran backwoods camper who, despite every precaution, fell victim to a fatal bear attack. What does it take to endure the impossible? Dare to Survive tackles that question as it vividly reminds us that when danger strikes, survival becomes the ultimate human challenge. 'This frightening but enjoyable book reveals that Mother Nature has more ways to kill than even the toughest Mafia godfather.' --Ted Schwarz, author of Hollywood Confidential: How the Studios Beat the Mob at Their Own Game Rick Rinehart is a publisher, writer, and former Colorado Humanities Scholar whose honors include recognition by the National Park Service for contributions to wolf recovery in Yellowstone National Park. His wife, Amy Rinehart, is a former publisher of endurance sports books who consults with outdoor retail and environmental organizations in the development of publishing programs. Rick and Amy live in Lafayette, Colorado.
Uprooted
Author | : Gregor Thum |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2011-08-08 |
ISBN 10 | : 1400839963 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781400839964 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
How a German city became Polish after World War II With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants—almost all of them ethnic Germans—were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants. In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction. The immediate consequences were an unstable society, an extremely high crime rate, rapid dilapidation of the building stock, and economic stagnation. This changed only after the city's authorities and a new intellectual elite provided Wroclaw with a Polish founding myth and reshaped the city's appearance to fit the postwar legend that it was an age-old Polish city. Thum also shows how the end of the Cold War and Poland's democratization triggered a public debate about Wroclaw's 'amputated memory.' Rediscovering the German past, Wroclaw's Poles reinvented their city for the second time since World War II. Uprooted traces the complex historical process by which Wroclaw's new inhabitants revitalized their city and made it their own.
Uprooted
Author | : Naomi Novik |
Publsiher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
ISBN 10 | : 0804179042 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780804179041 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
NEBULA AWARD WINNER • HUGO AWARD FINALIST • “If you want a fantasy with strong characters and brilliantly original variations on ancient stories, try Uprooted!”—Rick Riordan “Breathtaking . . . a tale that is both elegantly grand and earthily humble, familiar as a Grimm fairy tale yet fresh, original, and totally irresistible.”—Publishers Weekly(starred review) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • BuzzFeed • Tordotcom • BookPage • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her. But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose. Praise for Uprooted “Uprooted has leapt forward to claim the title of Best Book I’ve Read Yet This Year. . . . Moving, heartbreaking, and thoroughly satisfying, Uprooted is the fantasy novel I feel I’ve been waiting a lifetime for. Clear your schedule before picking it up, because you won’t want to put it down.”—NPR
The Embrace of Unreason
Author | : Frederick Brown |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
ISBN 10 | : 0385351631 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780385351638 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of For the Soul of France (“Masterful history” —Henry Kissinger), Zola (“Magnificent” —The New Yorker), and Flaubert (“Impeccable” —James Wood, cover, The New York Times Book Review)—a brilliant reconsideration of the events and the political, social, and religious movements that led to France’s embrace of Fascism and anti-Semitism. Frederick Brown explores the tumultuous forces unleashed in the country by the Dreyfus Affair and its aftermath and examines how the clashing ideologies—the swarm of ’isms—and their blood-soaked political scandals and artistic movements following the horrors of World War I resulted in the country’s era of militant authoritarianism, rioting, violent racism, and nationalistic fervor. We see how these forces overtook the country’s sense of reason, sealing the fate of an entire nation, and led to the fall of France and the rise of the Vichy government. The Embrace of Unreason picks up where Brown’s previous book, For the Soul of France, left off to tell the story of France in the decades leading up to World War II. We see through the lives of three writers (Maurice Barrès, Charles Maurras, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle) how the French intelligentsia turned away from the humanistic traditions and rationalistic ideals born out of the Enlightenment in favor of submission to authority that stressed patriotism, militarism, and xenophobia; how French extremists, traumatized by the horrors of the battlefront and exalted by the glories of wartime martyrdom, tried to redeem France’s collective identity, as Hitler’s shadow lengthened over Europe. The author writes of the Stavisky Affair, named for the notorious swindler whose grandiose Ponzi scheme tarred numerous political figures and fueled the bloody riots of February 1934, with right-wing paramilitary leagues, already suffering from the worldwide effects of the 1929 stock market crash, decrying Stavisky the Jew as the direct descendant of Alfred Dreyfus and an exemplar of the decaying social order . . . We see the Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture that, in June 1935, assembled Europe’s most illustrious literati under the sponsorship of the Soviet Union, whose internal feuds anticipated those recounted by George Orwell in his Spanish Civil War memoir Homage to Catalonia . . . Here too, pictured as the perfect representation of Europe’s cultural doomsday, is the Paris World’s Fair of 1937, featuring two enormous pavilions, the first built by Nazi Germany, the second by Soviet Russia, each facing the other like duelists on the avenue leading to the Eiffel Tower, symbol of the French Republic. And near them both, a pavilion devoted to “the art of the festival,” in which speakers and displays insisted that Nazi torchlight parades at Nuremberg should serve as a model for France. Written with historical insight and grasp and made immediate through the use of newspaper articles, journals, and literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Embrace of Unreason brings to life Europe’s darkest modern years.
Uprooted
Author | : Roy Parker |
Publsiher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2010-01 |
ISBN 10 | : 1847426689 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781847426680 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
the relatives and descendants, both in Britain and Canada, of the children around whom this study revolves.' --Book Jacket.
The Church Made Strange for the Nations
Author | : Paul G. Doerksen,Karl Koop |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2011-09-22 |
ISBN 10 | : 1630877220 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781630877224 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
The Church Made Strange for the Nations Book Review:
Christians have sometimes professed that the church ought to be in the world but not of it, yet the meaning and significance of this conviction has continued to challenge and confound. In the context of persecution, Christians in the ancient world tended to distance themselves from the social and civic mainstream, while in the medieval and early modern periods, the church and secular authorities often worked in close relationship, sharing the role of shaping society. In a post-Christendom era, this latter arrangement has been heavily critiqued and largely dismantled, but there is no consensus in Christian thought as to what the alternative should be. The present collection of essays offers new perspectives on this subject matter, drawing on sometimes widely disparate interlocutors, ancient and modern, biblical and secular. Readers will find these essays challenging and thought-provoking.
Andes
Author | : Michael Jacobs |
Publsiher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2011-05-05 |
ISBN 10 | : 1847083862 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781847083869 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Stretching for over 5500 miles, and containing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the largest salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size only by the Himalayas, the Andes impress by statistics alone. But beyond the range's sheer immensity is its concentration of radically contrasting scenery and climates. In this remarkable book, Michael Jacobs journeys from the balmy Caribbean to the inhospitable islands of the Tierra del Fuego, through the relics of ancient civilizations, to retrace the footsteps of previous travellers. His route begins in Venezuela, following the path of the great 19th-century revolutionary Simn Bolvar. On his way Jacobs attempts to uncover the stories of those who have shared his fascination, and to reveal the secrets of a region steeped in history, science and myth.
Uprooted
Author | : Sidney Oltman Ferrell |
Publsiher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2003-11-01 |
ISBN 10 | : 0595302122 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780595302123 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Feeling at home is something we rarely think of until forced to leave a location for a new place. It came as a shock to face moving from the place where I thought I would live for the rest of my life. With the shock came the realization that I was part of that late twentieth century American social phenomenon, a mobile society following their jobs from one place to another. Being uprooted has become a common occurrence in these times.
Putnam s Monthly
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1854 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : PRNC:32101076404985 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Community of the New Age
Author | : Howard Clark Kee |
Publsiher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1983 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780865541009 |
ISBN 13 | : 0865541000 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
American Philanthropy Abroad
Author | : Merle Curti |
Publsiher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 651 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
ISBN 10 | : 9781412817011 |
ISBN 13 | : 1412817013 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Transitory Gardens Uprooted Lives
Author | : Diana Balmori,Margaret Morton |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1995 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780300063011 |
ISBN 13 | : 0300063016 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Jimmy's garden on the Lower East Side of Manhattan--an assortment of stones and garbage bags, five tires, a chair, a skid, a refrigerator shelf, some ailanthus trees and goldfish, a wooden fence, and a pond with water carried by hand from a nearby fire hydrant--was recently bulldozed by the city. Jimmy then disappeared. Anna's garden is surrounded by a tall chainlink fence and filled with a menagerie of dolls and stuffed animals. The animals are whole, the dolls are maimed. Anna is a recluse who speaks to no one. The neighbors say she was in a concentration camp as a child. Gardens have always been associated with wealth and leisure, viewed as an addition to home. In this remarkable book a landscape architect and a photographer show us, in word and pictures, gardens built by homeless or impoverished New York City inhabitants. Like traditional gardens, these spaces are designed for pleasure, social activity, or private retreat. Unlike traditional gardens, they are connected to a more active and ephemeral use of the land. Transitory gardens speak the language of our times: here we find the reuse of nearly everything discarded, a sparing use of water and plant materials, an economical treatment of space, and a penchant for icons, toys, flags, and symbols of freedom and nationality. The gardens expand our definition of what makes a garden and what its design means for its creator. Diana Balmori's commentary and Margaret Morton's photographs combine with the garden-makers' own descriptions to encourage us to take note of gardens grown in unlikely places, on abandoned, littered lots, bounded by debris. By focusing on what homeless people make not for material comfort but from social and spiritual need, the book offers insight into both the meaning of landscape and the place of a garden in the life of an individual under duress.
You can’t consider yourself a film buff unless you’ve seen at least half of these movies. We’ve arranged them from plain good to absolute masterpieces and timeless classics that have become part of the Russian psyche.
100. A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov - Nikita Mikhalkov, 1980
If you’re too lazy to read this classic of Russian literature about laziness, this film is for you. Oblomov is played by the talented Oleg Tabakov: Most of the movie he spends loafing around on the couch, until a woman transforms his life.
99. Intergirl - Pyotr Todorovsky, 1989
It’s difficult to imagine that this film was shot in the Soviet Union: hard-currency prostitutes, sex scenes, police brutality.. For its time, the flick was a genuine movie revolution and earned itself a 16+ rating.
The plot revolves around a prostitute who dreams of finding a foreigner and going abroad. Having fulfilled her dream, the heroine feels alien and unwanted, but going back to the USSR is not an option..
98. Little Vera - Vasily Pichul, 1988
Another film that shocked Soviet audiences in the perestroika years. And not without reason: it depicted the first sex scene in Russian cinema history. But the focus of the picture is a Turgenev-style intergenerational conflict.
Young Vera lives according to the laws of the new age, which her father cannot accept.
97. The Woman Who Sings - Alexander Orlov, 1979
A little-known singer, already experiencing difficulties, becomes a single mother. But then her fortune changes, she wins fame and public adoration, yet this does not bring personal happiness. The film can be said to be a fictionalized biopic of the Soviet cult singer Alla Pugacheva, who essentially plays herself.
96. Kin-dza -dza - Georgy Daneliya, 1986
Lovers of Mad Max and the first Star Wars trilogy will be intrigued by this Soviet steampunk movie from director Georgy Daneliya: two random acquaintances find themselves in another galaxy, where they meet aliens who happen to have a spaceship.
On their quest to return to Earth, the pair experience all kinds of adventures. The only thing in their favor is that they have matches, which in this galaxy are worth their weight in gold..
95. Mother - Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926
One of the first Soviet propaganda films. The film’s hero is a revolutionary worker, while its anti-hero is his alcoholic father who supports the tsar. This family drama was based on the eponymous novel by Maxim Gorky.
94. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Sergey Paradzhanov, 1965
According to Serbian film-maker Emir Kusturica, this is one of the best movies in the world. It is the story of Romeo and Juliet set among the Hutsul tribes of Ukraine. According to contemporaries, the director used the film to depict a personal tragedy of his own not unlike the Shakespearian original.
93. Cine-Eye - Dziga Vertov, 1924
Vertov was to film what Malevich was to art—a tireless experimenter determined to break free of theatricality. Together with cameraman Mikhail Kaufman, he brought the avant-garde to the silver screen, shifting the camera angles and employing “disruptive-associative montage” techniques. In this silent film, he captures real life: here there are no actors, no staged shots.
92. Ma-ma - Elizabeth Bostan, 1976
A slightly psychedelic film musical based on the fairytale The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids: a mother goat goes in search of food, leaving her kids (quite literally) at home. They are kidnapped (again quite literally) by a gray wolf who demands a ransom.. This is one of the first Soviet film musicals, and its songs are loved by children and adults alike.
91. The Blonde Around the Corner - Vladimir Bortko, 1984
By Soviet standards, the blonde Nadezhda is a real go-getter. She knows where to get things that are in short supply, and is well connected and something of a VIP, since she works in a grocery store, which in the USSR is almost like being a factory boss.
Having fallen in love with a dreamy astrophysicist, she tries to remodel him, but he can think only of extraterrestrial civilizations. This is one of the last Soviet comedies, and a box office smash in its day.
90. The Promised Heaven - Eldar Ryazanov, 1991
This is Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths in a tragicomic interpretation by the legendary Eldar Ryazanov. Homeless people live in a city dump, and, despite the threats from the authorities, do not want to leave the place they call home. So tanks are sent in to change their minds, but it no longer matters to them—they dream of ascending to a higher spiritual plain.
89. Formula of Love - Mark Zakharov, 1984
A Soviet film very much in the spirit of Woody Allen. Swindler and magician Count Cagliostro goes into hiding in the provinces after his latest scam is uncovered by an influential St. Petersburg prince. There, Cagliostro continues his jiggery-pokery, promising a young man in love with a statue to bring it to life; but the charlatan’s main goal is to unravel the formula of love, in order to further manipulate people.
88. Desyat Negrityat - Stanislav Govorukhin, 1988
A popular screen version of a novel by queen of crime Agatha Christie. Ten strangers with no connection to one another arrive on a remote island at the invitation of the owner, who seems to be absent. One by one they come to a macabre end.
This spine-chilling tale was brilliantly played by a stellar cast of Russian actors. Incidentally, for reasons of political correctness, the title in English underwent various changes, and is today known as And Then There Were None.
87. The Wedding - Isidor Annensky, 1944
The virtuoso actress Faina Ranevskaya is remembered to this day for her razor-sharp, side-splitting phrases that have since become aphorisms. In this film based on stories by Chekhov, she plays the most frequent target of all Russian jokes—the mother-in-law. A very funny film about the pre-revolutionary petty bourgeois.
86. Alexander Nevsky - Sergei Eisenstein, 1938
This historical film by the cult director and innovator Eisenstein, commissioned by the Soviet state, was intended to raise public morale and patriotic spirit.
The tight schedule meant that the large-scale Battle of the Ice scene, in which the knights were supposed to fall through a frozen lake, had to be shot in summer. The “ice” was asphalt sprinkled with salt and wooden boards painted white.
85. The Return - Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003
The sullen father of two boys returns home after several years’ absence. The boys do not know where he’s been and are very wary of him. As if nothing had happened, he takes his sons away from home on a trip..
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s first picture won him a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and recognition as one of the most outstanding directors of modern times. The film also defined his directorial style—taciturn and savoring every frame.
84. Down House - Roman Kachanov, 2001
Programmer Myshkin returns from abroad. His big-shot companion Rogozhin talks about his new flame, a certain Nastasya Filippovna. Myshkin blindly falls in love with her image. This absurdist film is based on Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot, set in “wild 90s” Russia.
83. Hipsters - Valery Todorovsky, 2008
A tale about Soviet rock-and-rollers, who illegally buy foreign fashion items, listen to banned Western music, dance boogie-woogie, and, of course, fall in love.
Their underground get-togethers are dispersed by voluntary units of diehard communists, and they are condemned at party meetings. Todorovsky’s nostalgic film musical performed well at the box office on release.
82. Legend № 17 - Nikolai Lebedev, 2013
This biopic of famous Soviet hockey player Valery Kharlamov traces his rise to glory from a provincial Urals club to CSKA Moscow and the USSR’s demolition of Canada in the first game of the 1972 Summit Series. It stars sex symbol and Russia’s most in-demand young actor Danila Kozlovsky.
81. The Very Same Munchhausen - Mark Zakharov, 1980
This film was born from a play staged at the Moscow Lenkom Theater, with the screenplay by dramatist Grigory Gorin. Like the original character, Baron Munchhausen is full of incredible stories, but his fiancée wants him to stop spinning ludicrous yarns. He gradually become more serious, but nevertheless decides to “repeat” his journey to the moon. A crowd gathers to watch the firing of the human cannonball..
80. White Bim Black Ear, Stanislav Rostotsky, 1977
If the film Hachiko made you shed a tear, you’ll need a bucket for White Bim, as two generations of Russians have already found out. Bim, a Gordon Setter puppy with one black ear, lives with hunter Ivan Ivanovich. When his owner ends up in the hospital, Bim goes in search of him..
79. Ivan the Terrible - Sergei Eisenstein, 1945
This film about Russia’s most notorious medieval tsar was another one tasked with raising the public’s patriotic spirit, while simultaneously justifying the iron rule of the “father of nations” Joseph Stalin (who was reportedly an admirer of Ivan the Terrible).
The film was commissioned by the state during the Great Patriotic War, and many of the actors were suffering from hunger. Three parts were initially planned, but Eisenstein died, leaving only two.
78. Kuban Cossacks - Ivan Pyryev, 1950
A musical comedy about a competition between two collective farms as they prepare for a fair. The post-war hunger is glossed over, with the film showing an abundance of food and merrymaking.
Pyryev was a director at the Mosfilm studio, before serving for more than a decade as chairman of the USSR State Committee for Cinematographers. In that capacity, he was essentially the country’s chief censor, and from the viewpoint of Soviet ideology his film was nothing if not exemplary.
77. Peculiarities of the National Hunt - Alexander Rogozhkin, 1995
A foreigner visits Russia to study the national customs and traditions, and gets more than he bargained for. What starts off as a hunt descends into mayhem with more than a few crates of vodka along the way.
The comedy regularly reduces Russians to tears of laughter (or otherwise), because they recognize themselves only too well in these outlandish escapades.
76. Solaris - Andrey Tarkovsky, 1972
A psychologist arrives at the Solaris space station and discovers strange goings-on: all the scientists on board are suffering from some kind of mental illness. The psychologist too starts seeing hallucinations in the form of his dead wife. Tarkovsky’s sci-fi drama was adapted for screen from the novel by Polish writer Stanislav Lem, and it still inspires many filmmakers and artists to this day.
75. Big School-Break - Alexey Korenev, 1972
An implausibly kind-hearted four-part film about a night school for young workers. History teacher Nestor, fresh out of college and with a name like a medieval chronicler, has to cope with a very difficult, but highly talented class in which many students are much older and more experienced lifewise than he is.
74. Hello, I’m Your Aunt - Victor Titov, 1975
Soviet directors loved bringing English classics to the screen, but this film version of Brandon Thomas’s Charley’s Aunt is still the one to beat. This comedy farce, in which the hero hides from the police by pretending to be the rich “Donna Lucia” from Brazil, employs a now standard plot device—the “donna” is wildy popular with would-be husbands…
73. Spring - Grigory Alexandrov, 1947
An operetta actress is asked to play the role of a scientist in a new film. But the theater and cinema rehearsal times clash, and she can’t be in two places at once. Luckily, she manages to find a real-life scientist who looks just like her. The actress persuades the highbrow scientist to replace her on the set..
Both roles are played by the people’s darling Lyubov Orlova, who gave frontline performances for soldiers during the Great Patriotic War.
72. The Adventures of Buratino - Leonid Nechaev, 1976
This Russian version of Pinocchio is one of the most beloved tales of Soviet children. The movie’s original soundtrack was voted into the Golden Fund of Russian Film Music.
71. The 9th Company - Fedor Bondarchuk, 2005
The Soviet-Afghan war has long been a sore spot in Russia, which is why there are so few films about it. But that didn’t deter director Fedor Bondarchuk, who made a gut-wrenching blockbuster in the spirit of U.S. films about Vietnam.
70. Dersu Uzala - Akira Kurosawa, 1975
This Soviet-Japanese coproduction, directed by Japan’s Akira Kurosawa and shot in Russian, won an Oscar for best foreign film. The film is based on the autobiography of Far East explorer Vladimir Arsenyev. On his expeditions, he was assisted by hunter Dersu Uzala, a native of the Ussuri region, who knew the terrain like the back of his hand and what to do if a tiger got too close.
69. Sportloto-82 - Leonid Gaidai, 1982
A comedy about a pair of speculators who go in search of a winning lottery ticket. The film topped the Soviet box office in 1982 with 55 million viewers. One of the best comedy duos in the USSR, actors Kokshenov and Pugovkin have been making audiences chuckle for more than 30 years.
68. Courier - Karen Shakhnazarov, 1986
A young boy, on failing to enter college, gets a job as a courier and starts an affair with a professor’s daughter. The girl’s father is less than thrilled by her choice, made worse by the guy’s decision to tease the old man by alleging that his daughter is pregnant. Another perestroika film that vividly depicts the new era and even the first Soviet break-dance.
67. The Barber of Siberia - Nikita Mikhalkov, 1998
A sumptuous saga about a young cadet in Tsarist Russia. He falls in love with a daring American lady, and is ready to do anything to defend her and his own honor. It features Russian actor Oleg Menshikov with Hollywood star Julia Ormond.
The film is also famous for then-President Boris Yeltsin allowing the illuminated Kremlin stars to be turned off for the first time since the Great Patriotic War.
66. Piter FM - Oksana Bychkova, 2006
This romantic story set in summertime St. Petersburg was a true cinematic event in 2006, despite the no-frills plot. Masha, a young woman, loses her mobile phone. It is found by Maxim, who wants to return it. But try as they might, the couple are fated not to meet, always missing each other by a split second. Long chats over the phone inevitably lead to deeper feelings.
65. How Viktor 'the Garlic' Took Alexey 'the Stud' to the Nursing Home - Alexander Hunt, 2017
Don’t be put off by the title. The debut film of director Alexander Khant has a meaty plot and some real folk heroes. In this adventure road movie, lowlife Vitka discovers that he has a criminal father who is now disabled. He can get his father’s apartment if only he can put him in a nursing home..
64. Man with a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov, 1929
A documentary film by avant-garde filmmaker Vertov about a day in the life of the young Soviet Union: cars and buses trundle along, workers toil away in factories, pedestrians hurry by. It also features a wedding, childbirth, and a funeral, all filmed using the ground-breaking techniques of the legendary director.
63. Spring on Zarechnaya Street - Marlen Hutsiev, Felix Mironer, 1956
Marlen Khutsiev, Feliks Mironer/Odessa Film Studio, 1956
A cinematic symbol of the time of the “Khrushchev thaw.” A shock-worker at a metallurgical plant attends evening classes and falls in love with his young teacher, who has just graduated from college. Both are proud, principled Soviet people, and their relationship is a rocky ride.
62. Amphibian Man, Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennady Kazansky, 1962
Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadi Kazansky/Lenfilm, 1962
The Oscar-winning The Shape of Water fades in comparison with this Soviet adaptation of the sci-fi novel by Alexander Belyaev, also called Amphibian Man.
Instead of a green monster, Vladimir Korenev plays the role of Ichthyander, a handsome youth surgically altered to survive under the sea. There, he lives with his dolphin friends, until one day by chance he rescues a beautiful girl from drowning. Now he wants to become a normal human being, but, alas, he cannot live long without water.
61. Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966
Eight cinematic novellas tell about the life of the ancient Russian monk and icon painter Andrei Rublev. He observes the cruel, bloody, soulless Russian Middle Ages full of wandering minstrels, pagans, holy fools, and devastating Mongol raids. Tarkovsky’s masterpiece is highly rated abroad, too, and regularly appears in Top 100 lists of the best films ever made in any language.
60. The Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein, 1925
Although few modern viewers would voluntarily sit through this epic, it is rightly included in all textbooks on the history of cinema. Legendary director Sergei Eisenstein shows events from the first Russian revolution of 1905: sailors aboard the Potemkin refuse to eat maggot-infested meat and mutiny against their commanding officers. One of the most memorable scenes of the film—the much-imitated (and parodied) Odessa steps sequence—is perhaps the most recognizable moment in world cinema.
59. War and Peace - Sergey Bondarchuk, 1966
This story of several families in Russia set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars from 1805 to 1812 won an Oscar for best foreign film. Critics consider it to be the best adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's epic. The roles of Andrei Bolkonsky and Anatol Kuragin were played by Soviet sex symbols Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Vasily Lanovoy.
Spend a whole weekend relishing this glorious moving canvas (four films in total), and then compare it with the recent BBC series.
58. Afonya - Georgy Daneliya, 1975
Poor, lonely plumber Afonya is a shoddy worker and full-time alcoholic. He is reprimanded by his superiors and threatened with dismissal, but that has little effect. Only Katya, a woman he meets, believes that he can change..
This comedy about a simple Russian guy won viewers’ hearts and minds with its recognizable characters and sharp dialogue.
57. An Ordinary Miracle - Mark Zakharov, 1979
The film, based on the play by Evgeny Schwartz, tells the story of a bear transformed into a youth through witchcraft. If he kisses the princess, he will turn back into a beast, but he wants to remain human..
This beloved Soviet fairytale for adults was first shown on January 1, the day when many hope for a new life and an ordinary miracle. That’s probably why it’s still popular today.
56. The Student - Kirill Serebrennikov, 2016
A high school student becomes a religious fanatic, and takes everything he hears and reads horribly literally. He forces others to live by his dogmas, with disastrous consequences.
Made by renowned theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov, the film developed out of his successful stage production at the Moscow Gogol Center. It received several awards at international film festivals, including Cannes.
55. Leviathan - Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2014
One of Zvyagintsev’s best-known films, shot in the tiny village of Teriberka in the Murmansk region in northern Russia, has become a mecca for novice art-house directors. This drama about the helplessness of the individual in the face of the state machine was awarded a Golden Globe and nominated for an Oscar.
54. Night Watch - Timur Bekmambetov, 2004
This gripping tale about a simple guy by the name of Anton who accidentally violates the centuries-old truce between the forces of dark and light, was one of the first Russian blockbusters.
The film, shot by renowned director Timur Bekmambetov, who is also quite active in Hollywood, is a screen version of Sergei Lukyanenko’s sci-fi novel of the same name (and don’t forget the sequel Day Watch).
53. Everyone Dies But Me - Valeriya Gai Germanika, 2008
This coming-of-age drama went down a storm when it debuted at Cannes. The film made 24-year-old Valeriya a star, although it remains her only notable cinematic work to date.
52. They Fought for Their Country - Sergey Bondarchuk, 1975
This screen adaptation of the eponymous novel by Mikhail Sholokhov was made by Oscar-winner Bondarchuk. Timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Victory Day, it tells about the exploits of Soviet troops during the Second World War and is acknowledged as a classic of the genre.
51. We’ll Live Till Monday - Stanislav Rostotsky, 1968
The film depicts three days in the life of an ordinary Soviet school against the backdrop of a love story between a new, young female teacher and an older colleague. The picture was recognized as the best film of the year, and won the main prize at the Moscow Film Festival and even a USSR State Award.
50. Beware of the Car - Eldar Ryazanov, 1966
Yuri Detochkin is a Soviet Robin Hood. He steals cars from the rich, sells them, and gives the money to orphanages. An investigator uncovers the crime, but on learning about Detochkin’s noble aims finds himself unable to arrest the thief.
One of the most popular Soviet films, it was intended to depict the ideal Soviet citizen, for whom conscience and social equality are paramount.
49. At Home Among Strangers - Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974
An “ostern ” (Soviet western) about the end of the Russian Civil War. A group of former Red Army soldiers, now Chekists (state security officers), are entrusted with conveying gold confiscated from the bourgeoisie to Moscow, but are robbed first by White Guards and then by bandits..
Nikita Mikhalkov’s directorial debut is considered a movie classic. It was shown at several international festivals.
48. Summer - Kirill Serebrennikov, 2018
A biopic of cult rocker Viktor Tsoi and Soviet underground culture. The film won a Cannes prize for best soundtrack. The drama on screen was matched by the drama off it—director Kirill Serebrennikov finished work on the film while under house arrest on charges of embezzlement.
47. Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia - Eldar Ryazanov, Franco Prosperi, 1974
It turns out that St. Petersburg is home to a huge number of lion statues. To find the one with treasure buried underneath, Italian crooks dig under all of them in turn. The blame for everything lies with an elderly Russian émigré who hid treasure under a lion during the revolution.
The film features many special effects, not inferior to Hollywood for the time, including a gas station explosion and a car chase. Without stunt doubles, the actors themselves jumped over a moveable bridge in St. Petersburg and clambered out the window of a multistory building down knotted bed sheets.
46. Two Comrades Were Serving - Evgeny Karelov, 1968
One of the finest films about the Russian Civil War, which even history teachers advise watching. A detachment of White Guards is surrounded in Crimea by the Red Army. The commander instructs two Red Army soldiers to film the location of the Whites on a movie camera from the air (a difficult technological feat at the time of the Civil War), but their plane falls from the sky and they are captured..
45. Viy - Konstantin Ershov, Georgy Kropachyov, 1967
Konstantin Ershov, Georgy Kropachyov/Mosfilm, 1967
Soviet horror films can be counted on the fingers of one hand. But watching Viy, you risk turning gray, just like the character at the end of the movie. It is based on the story by Nikolai Gogol, in which a seminary student is sent to read night prayers over the body of a beautiful deceased girl. Spoiler alert: The girl turns out to be a witch, and rises from the grave on the very first night.
44. The Cranes Are Flying - Mikhail Kalatozov (director), Sergey Urusevsky (cinematographer), 1957
Two lovebirds stroll around Moscow until late at night, and in the morning discover that the Soviet Union is at war. The young man is called up for frontline service, while his girlfriend remains in Moscow and ends up marrying another man.
The film is not recommended to those of an overly sensitive disposition. The jury at Cannes in 1958 sobbed so much that they awarded it the festival’s highest award, the Palme d’Or.
43. And Quiet Flows the Don - Sergey Gerasimov, 1958
If you haven’t read Mikhail Sholokhov’s four-volume epic about the Russian Civil War, described as the War and Peace of the 20th century, then you definitely need to watch this screen adaptation of the Nobel prize-winning novel.
The October Revolution turned the lives of millions upside down. Brothers take up arms against each other, while the central character is torn between White and Red, between wife and lover. It’s all here: love, betrayal, death. Gripping stuff.
42. Mimino - Georgy Daneliya, 1978
A Georgian nicknamed Mimino works as a pilot for a local airline, but dreams of flying around the world, and at the same time winning the heart of a beautiful flight attendant from the world of “big aviation.” Having fulfilled his dream, he begins to yearn for his homeland..
The charm and spice of Soviet Georgia won over the entire USSR with the stunning panoramas, local heroes, and the song “Chito Gvrito Cheto Margalito,” which is still sung to this day.
41. Loveless - Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2017
Zvyagintsev’s most recent offering bagged, inter alia, the Jury Prize at Cannes and Best Film, Best Soundtrack, and Best Cinematographer at the European Film Awards, and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The story concerns two separated parents in a loveless relationship, which leads to their son running away. Read more: 4 reasons to watch Loveless.
40. October - Sergei Eisenstein, 1927
The storming of the Winter Palace by sailors in this film is often mistaken for real historical footage. Slightly embellishing reality, Eisenstein shows the overthrow of tsarist power and establishment of Bolshevik rule. It is a cinematic ode to the October Revolution, which was top of mind last year on the occasion of the 100th anniversary.
39. The Adventures of Electronics (miniseries) - Konstantin Bromberg, 1980
All children dream of having a twin who could sit exams for them. That is what happens to the boy Serezha Syroezhkin, only his double is a highly intelligent robot called Electronic. But finding himself in the world of people, Electronic is upset that he himself is not human.
One of the most popular children’s films, it also produced some wonderful songs—one of them, “Winged Swings,” became iconic.
38. Country of the Deaf - Valery Todorovsky, 1998
Rita’s boyfriend owes money to bandits and disappears, leaving her as collateral. She is saved and sheltered by a deaf stripper, who wants to go far, far away to the “country of the deaf,” her own private promised land..
It was one of the first (and still few) films in Russia to address the topic of disability, and won audiences’ hearts thanks to the superb acting duet of Dina Korzun and Chulpan Khamatova.
37. The Most Charming and Attractive - Gerald Bezhanov, 1985
Engineer Nadia is past 30 and worried that she is not married yet. Schoolfriend Susanna decides to help her by getting hold of some fashionable outfits on the black market, and teaching her the methods of 'scientific seduction.' But the main thing is self-training, which involves repeating the mantra: 'I am the most charming and attractive.'
See for yourself how it all turns out in what is one of the most popular comedy films of the perestroika era.
36. The Dawns Here Are Quiet - Stanislav Rostotsky, 1972
Another poignant movie about the Second World War, based on the story by Boris Vasiliev. It is the story of five young women with very different fates—all of them united by war. Under the leadership of their commander, they risk life and limb to hunt down the fascist invaders in the forests and swamps.
35. White Sun of the Desert - Vladimir Motyl, 1970
On the shores of the Caspian Sea, the Russian Civil War has just ended and Red Army soldier Sukhov is heading home to his beloved wife through the desert on foot. But one day he stumbles upon a man who has been buried up to the neck in sand by bandits. He decides to save him, together with women from the harem of another gangster.
This first “ostern ” is famous for some great acting and dialogue—many quotes from the film have become sayings in the Russian language.
34. Gentlemen of Fortune - Alexander Sery , 1971
A kindergarten teacher is a dead-ringer for a dangerous gangster, so the police ask him for help in investigating the theft of Alexander the Great’s golden helmet. But to do so, the mild-mannered tutor must embed himself in a criminal gang and even arrange a jailbreak. The brilliant acting and hair-raising plot made it a box office smash.
33. Walking the Streets of Moscow - Georgy Daneliya, 1964
The eponymous song from the film has become almost more popular than the film itself, and is one of the most frequently performed in Russia today. The picture was born from one scene created by the screenwriter: a girl walks through the beautiful Moscow rain, while a guy rides a bicycle alongside.
The main themes are the “Khrushchev thaw” and the construction of high buildings and even higher hopes. It was also the acting debut of future Oscar-winning director Nikita Mikhalkov.
32. The Garage - Eldar Ryazanov, 1979
A society of garage owners meets to discuss a hot topic: some members will have to lose their garages to make way for a new road. In the midst of the fractious debate, it turns out that someone has locked the door to the room and hidden the key—everyone will have to spend the entire night under the same roof.
Filmed in just 24 days, Eldar Ryazanov’s touching comedy, based on a real-life meeting that he once attended, has become a classic.
31. Cargo 200 - Alexey Balabanov, 2007
Police Captain Zhurov rapes a girl and handcuffs her to a bed. He leaves the captive’s deranged alcoholic mother to watch over her. Meanwhile, zinc coffins bearing the bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan are shipped back home, but there is not even any one to bury them..
The film, shown at the Venice Festival, is full of violence and corpses, made even more shocking by being based on real events. Many actors declined to take part, and some movie theaters refused to show it.
30. The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (miniseries) - Stanislav Govorukhin, 1979
Crime in the USSR is said to have dropped during the hours that this was aired on TV. The entire country, including criminals, was glued to the screen as investigators Gleb Zheglov (played by Vladimir Vysotsky) and Vladimir Sharapov tracked down a criminal gang in the post-war Soviet Union. They were the Holmes and Watson of their day—even Sharapov’s moustache was Watson-esque.
29. Station for Two - Eldar Ryazanov, 1982
Famous actress Lyudmila Gurchenko plays an ill-mannered waitress in a cafe at a railway station. Her only love interest is a racketeer whom she meets fleetingly in a train compartment whenever he passes through. But one day a new, interesting man appears in her life when he gets stuck at the station (largely because of her). The film featured at numerous European festivals, and was warmly received at Cannes.
28. Only Old Men Go into Battle - Leonid Bykov, 1974
Journeys in middle-earth - hunt for the ember crown for mac osx. What do fighter pilots do between combat missions? Live a normal life, fall in love, wait for letters from home, and even set up an amateur orchestra. The popular, now frontline song “Smyglyanka” (“Swarthy Woman”) was performed for the first time in this film.
27. Ivan Vasilyevich: Back to the Future - Leonid Gaidai, 1973
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An engineer creates a time machine and accidentally brings Ivan the Terrible to the USSR. At the same time, a tsar-lookalike and a burglar robbing the apartment next door are accidentally transferred to the cut-throat Middle Ages.
The comedy is based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s little-known play Ivan Vasilyevich and, like many comic films by the legendary Gaidai, topped the box office.
26. Officers - Vladimir Rogovoy, 1971
This film about ambition, duty, and love tells the story of one family in which the men of each generation all have to fight in different wars. The phrase, “Defending the Motherland is a profession,” has become a Russian proverb. In almost every Soviet family there was at least one member who served in the army, so these were not empty words for the vast majority of people.
25. Welcome, or No Trespassing - Elem Klimov, 1964
Have you ever been to a pioneer camp? Watch this movie and you will have. Playing cards behind the leaders’ backs, real friendships, and highly inventive pranks—what’s not to like? And above all, preparing for the all-important parents’ day show. A family comedy from the 1960s that has modern viewers laughing out loud.
24. Ballad of a Soldier - Grigory Chukhray, 1959
After performing a heroic deed in battle, a young soldier is granted leave to visit his mother. The journey home is long, and on the way he encounters many different people, including his first love. It takes a heart of stone not to cry when the soldier hugs his mother before his departure back to the front, neither of them knowing whether he will ever return again.. Another intensely powerful WWII movie.
23. The Girls - Yuri Chulyukin, 1961
A comedy about the cook Toska, who falls in love with a ladies’ man who works at a Soviet construction site. Both are proud, so neither wants to be the first to show their feelings.
The film’s glorification of the working class and the now defunct dream of a “bright future” has not stopped it becoming an all-time classic. An added bonus is the chance to find out about lots of potato-based recipes. The polynomial - space of the music download pdf.
22. Operation Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures - Leonid Gaidai, 1965
Student Shurik is forever getting into scrapes. In the first adventure, he has to confront a bully at a construction site. In the second, revising for his exams on the move, he is so engrossed in his textbook that he doesn’t notice all kinds of dangers around. And in the third, he inadvertently thwarts a gang of crooks..
Shurik was a folk hero in the USSR, the image of the exemplary student and Komsomol member. Today, Gaidai’s humor is still as sharp as ever, and even young Russians can quote from this film.
21. Kidnapping, Caucasian Style - Leonid Gaidai, 1967
In this sequel to Operation Y, Shurik goes on an expedition to the Caucasus to learn about local customs and drinking toasts. The locals refuse to give toasts unless Shurik drinks with them, and on one occasion he is even offered to observe a highly unusual custom—bride-stealing, which turns out not to be staged.
Another beloved Soviet comedy, which gave birth to a meme about the model Soviet woman, who should be “a student, a Komsomol member, and simply beautiful.”
20. Love and Dove - Vladimir Menshov, 1984
Dreaming of visiting a Russian village? Then this delightful Russian comedy for you. The wistful father of a family leaves his native village for a sanatorium, where he meets an intelligent lady charmed by his provincial straightforwardness. But outside the resort, she understands that you can take the man out of the village, but not the village out of the man.
19. The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974
A key work in the filmography of cult director Tarkovsky, The Mirror is a stream-of-consciousness meditation on memory. In the picture, he shows fragmentary scenes from his own childhood: village home, mother, coming-of-age, war. The film incorporates poems composed and read by Soviet poet Arseny Tarkovsky, the director’s father.
18. Carnival Night - Eldar Ryazanov, 1956
Young workers at a Soviet House of Culture rehearse for a New Year’s Eve performance, but the director wants to turn the fun and dancing into a boring official event. He has to be stopped.
The highest-grossing film of 1956 was also the movie debut of both director Eldar Ryazanov and actress Lyudmila Gurchenko. It also gave the country one of its most popular New Year songs “5 minutes.” The film was a New Year’s Eve TV regular, until replaced by the no. 1 in our list (no peeking).
17. Seventeen Moments of Spring (miniseries) - Tatiana Lioznova, 1973
A Soviet intelligence officer penetrates the highest echelons of the SS in Nazi Germany under the name Stirlitz. The entire Soviet Union held its breath at the derring-do of the central character, and shed tears over the scene when Stirlitz encounters his wife after many years of separation, but cannot even look at her so as not to give himself away.
Stirlitz (a.k.a. the Russian James Bond) became a national hero, and his name is associated with many memes and jokes.
16. The Pokrovsky Gate - Mikhail Kozakov, 1983
The cheerful lad Kostya arrives in Moscow to study, and stays in his aunt’s communal apartment, detonating the lives of its resident intellectuals with his nonchalance and joie de vivre.. Phrases from the film have become bywords, and the comedy is something of a hymn to Moscow.
15. Office Romance - Eldar Ryazanov, 1977
Lyudmila Prokofyevna is so accustomed to running a large enterprise with an iron fist and an unimaginative dress sense that she seems to have forgotten that she is a young, attractive, and still single woman. The intrigue starts when one of her employees asks her out for a bet, hoping to climb the career ladder, but ends up actually falling in love with his boss.
This romantic comedy about office drones topped the Soviet box office in its year of release, and is one of the most frequently shown films on TV today.
14. D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers - Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich, 1978
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It is not clear what Soviet children loved more: the Dumas novel or this film adaptation, which turned actor Mikhail Boyarsky into the eternal image of D’Artagnan.
The three-part film features a wonderful cast and tunes that have practically become folk songs. Incidentally, to make the film look more “French,” it was shot on location in Ukraine, mainly Lviv and Odessa.
13. Burnt by the Sun - Nikita Mikhalkov, 1994
Having gone missing after the Civil War in Russia, Mitya suddenly turns up at the house of his former beloved Marusya during the terrible years of the Stalinist purges. She is now married to a Soviet officer, and does not know that her old flame has come to destroy her new one..
This multi-layered psychological drama is another Russian Oscar winner. Events unfold to the sound of the soul-wrenching tango “Tired Sun.”
12. The Twelve Chairs - Leonid Gaidai, 1971
Ostap Bender, a charming conman, is searching for diamonds hidden inside an antique set of chairs by the mother-in-law of a random acquaintance just before she died. The problem is that the chairs have been sold off individually and are now spread across the country..
This screen adaptation of the comic novel by satirical co-authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov became an instant movie classic thanks in large part to actor Archil Gomiashvili’s brilliant portrayal of Bender, and the many memorable lines that are still quoted today.
11. The Diamond Arm - Leonid Gaidai, 1969
Smugglers mistakenly place jewels in the cast of the wrong person, and then chase after the unsuspecting, respectable family man. The young Andrei Mironov woke up to nationwide fame after the premiere of this comedy. The film was seen by a then-record 76.7 million people.
10. Heart of a Dog - Vladimir Bortko, 1988
What happens if human organs are transplanted into a dog? Soviet professor Preobrazhensky decides to try. The result of this experiment, Comrade Sharikov, looks human, but behaves like a canine. Based on the popular story by Mikhail Bulgakov, the film version is just as well-loved.
9. Belorussky Station - Andrei Smirnov, 1971
WWII comrades return from the frontline to Belorussky Station in Moscow, and each goes his own separate way. They meet again only a quarter of a century later—at the funeral of their friend. This is one of the most tear-jerking war films, in which Bulat Okudzhava’s song “We Need One Victory for All,” still popular today, sounded for the first time.
8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (miniseries) - Igor Maslennikov, 1979–86
The Soviet screen version of Conan Doyle is one of the best in the world, even according to British critics. Actor Vasily Livanov was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his role as the legendary detective. A Holmes-and-Watson statue modeled on the Soviet actors was installed at the British Embassy in Moscow.
7. Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979
The central character, known as the Stalker, earns his living by leading people into the Zone, an area formed after the fall of a meteorite where the normal rules of reality do not apply. One day, the Professor and the Writer ask him to take them there. The Stalker agrees, but has no idea what plans these seemingly ordinary people are hatching..
This film parable is based on the sci-fi story Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky Brothers, who also worked on the screenplay. It is one of the most popular films of this legendary director.
6. Hedgehog in the Fog - Yuri Norstein, 1975
This philosophical cartoon for children and adults about a hedgehog who loses his way in the fog and falls into a river, but is taken to his destination by the current, is still spellbinding today. In 2003, in Tokyo, Norstein’s masterpiece was recognized as the best animated film of all time.
5. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears - Vladimir Menshov, 1980
A provincial woman arrives in Moscow, pretends to be the daughter of a professor, and gets pregnant by a Muscovite from an intellectual family. The marriage having failed, she has to raise her child alone, while working and studying at the same time. Twenty years later, she becomes the director of a large enterprise..
This movie about dreams coming true picked up an Oscar for best foreign film.
4. Brigade (miniseries) - Alexey Sidorov, 2002
Four childhood friends looking for easy money get involved in criminal dealings. It took many more roles after this series for the leading actor, Sergey Bezrukov, to stop being associated with the gangster Sasha Bely.
Brigade is Russia’s answer to The Godfather and probably the most accurate and atmospheric series about the criminal 1990s.
3. Assa - Sergei Solovyov, 1987
This film, about the relationship between the girlfriend of a crime boss and a musician she meets by chance, became a symbol of Gorbachev’s perestroika.
This was largely due to the soundtrack, which was recorded by various underground Soviet rock bands, including the legendary Kino and their iconic song “We Want Changes!”
2. Brother - Alexei Balabanov, 1997
Danila Bagrov, an everyday guy with strong principles, helps his brother after the latter gets embroiled with gangsters in the lawless free-for-all that was 1990s Russia. Like Assa, released ten years earlier, the film was also the soundtrack of its time, with many songs by Russia’s best rock groups.
1. The Irony of Fate, or May the Steam Be with You - Eldar Ryazanov, 1975
“Every year on December 31, me and my friends go to the bathhouse,” Zhenya, the likeable hero of the tale, repeats throughout the film. In Russian minds, this phrase is forever associated, besides New Year, with a situation that might (or did) go horribly, but amusingly wrong.
The film has been shown on December 31 every year without fail since its release, keeping countless people entertained while cooking and preparing for New Year. If anyone is bored of seeing it, they haven’t said so.
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