The best Russian/Soviet films from Russian Bear with English subtitles.

[Russian Bear]

I would like to recommend to everyone some funny Soviet films that every Russian knows (with English subtitles):
1)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=F68bbzOOOdY

Famous soviet movie "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures with english subtitles"
A series of eccentric comedies, where the protagonist, a student named Shurik, either reforms an idler on a construction site, or frantically prepares for an exam with his friend without noticing the friend is a girl. He also catches three burglars without help when they decide to rob a warehouse.

2)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=m3xVdxDWFWU

An eccentric comedy based on M. Bulgakov’s play “Ivan Vassilevich” about a time machine, which helps czar Ivan the Terrible get into the XXth century, and a house-manager Bunsh burglar Gorge into Old Russia.

3)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PmaZ0SlyZ9E

Russian comedy film with English subtitles.
Famous soviet movie "The Caucasian Prisoner and New Adventures of Shurik".
An eccentric comedy about a student named Shurik, who goes to the Caucasus for work and meets local chief Saakhov, a man full of guile. He, with an assistance of the famous crooks Trus, Balbes and Byvaly, abducts the beautiful Nina.

4)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IvVpbNaSk6k

An eccentric comedy about a modest clerk, Semyon Semyonovich, who during his tour abroad gets into the middle of a smuggling operation. He is taken for a messenger and a piece of plaster of Paris jewelry is applied on his hand to get them over the border. Eventually the main character helps a militia stop the crime.

5) Soviet Western!!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Auj_u7wEyw8

A Soviet ‘Red Western’ classic. The Russian civil war is over, but Basmachi gangs still roam Central Asia. Fyodor Ivanovich Sukhov, a Red Army soldier, intends to return home to his beloved wife Katerina Matveyevna, but unexpected events force him to stay in the desert. The brutal bandit Abdullah and his gang kill everyone in their path and threaten to destroy the women of their leader’s former harem.

6)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GgFLr2bjUNM

"Mimino" - in Georgian "falcon" - that is the name of small aircraft pilot Valiko Mizandari. He works in his native mountain village, carries both passengers and mail by helicopter - whatever they ask for. But he has long dreamed of real, big aviation, and one day he leaves in Moscow.

7)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XukcyHljlCE

Famous soviet comedy about a kind-hearted head of a kindergarten who looks just like a criminal who escaped from prison. Employees of the criminal investigation department decided to use this similarity to search for stolen archaeological treasures.

8)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nA9wr3P4ZN4

Spy drama set in 1924. An officer of the Soviet secret police is sent to Konevets Island, between Russia and Finland, to assassinate an unnamed target. The film tells the story of a man's fate and the changes that occur during his life.

9)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=saVNmNaRIcY

The best Sherlock Holmes is the Soviet one. This was the verdict given by the British back in 1982, when the film starring Vasily Borisovich Livanov was first broadcast on the BBC. Everyone, from British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to a simple London baker, accepted the image of good old England created in the film by director Igor Maslennikov and actors Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin.
In playlists series of films Sherlock Holmes

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[Russian Bear]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vxc0GPr7wqA

1943. A young platoon commander refuses to follow an order of frontal attack; he doesn’t want to send his soldiers against the enemy machine-guns and get them killed. A battalion commander rips off his shoulder straps and sends him to the military tribunal. But the war is everywhere and the demoted officer and his escorts have to start an unequal fight with the enemy.


"The Dawns Here Are Quiet" (1972) is a war drama, a screen adaptation of the story of the same name by Boris Vasiliev.

Plot: during the Great Patriotic War, in the deep rear, a small group of female anti-aircraft gunners led by Sergeant Major Vaskov encounters a detachment of German saboteurs. In order to stop the enemy, they have to perform a heroic feat, sacrificing their lives to save the Motherland.

Themes of the film: the price of war, human lives, youth, destinies, willpower and heroism, the complexity of choice and sacrifices for the sake of a great goal.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dfftHKf164E

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-5mf6tTBNq8

The first film, The Fire Bulge, tells about the heroic battle at the Kursk Bulge in summer 1943.
This is a serial film, find the continuation in the description

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ZraM-TvRXA

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ceRHLKJCWTM

Part One: In the aftermath of the victory in France, Hitler decides to attack the Soviet Union and places his hopes on field marshal Fedor von Bock, commander of Army Group Center, for the capture of Moscow. Ilse Stöbe, Rudolf von Scheliha and Richard Sorge inform of the danger, but the Soviet intelligence dismisses their warnings. Zhukov is concerned that the army is ill-prepared; Pavlov decries him as a fear-monger. The Red Army officers are convinced that in the event of an invasion, they would immediately counter-attack. On 22 June 1941 Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, overwhelming the Soviets.

Belshazzar's Feasts, or Night with Stalin. Film. Drama

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OZf2qBZNUAY

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jtazv8uPvvA

"Seventeen Moments of Spring" - a 1973 Soviet 12-part television series directed by Tatyana Lioznova based on the novel of the same name by Yulian Semyonov.

Plot: the action takes place during World War II shortly before Germany's capitulation - from February 12 to March 24, 1945. The main character is Soviet intelligence officer Maxim Maksimovich Isaev, who infiltrates the highest echelons of Nazi Germany under the name Max Otto von Stirlitz to find out which of the German leaders is negotiating a "separate peace" with the United States and Great Britain.

The plot is based on real events of World War II - Operation Sunrise, during which the German authorities tried to make peace with the Western allies of the USSR.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0ydz0d3Ba0o

1942 All of central Europe is under the heel of the Germans. A member of the underground anti-fascist organization, Harro Schulze-Boysen, learns about the secret military operation "Blau", which gives the Germans the opportunity to capture the Caucasus. Schulze-Boysen reported everything to Moscow, but Stalin considered this disinformation. The German plan - to create an imitation offensive near Moscow in order to keep the Russians there - worked. Now, they decided in Berlin, they were guaranteed quick success in the southwestern direction.

Moreover, the Russian counteroffensive near Kharkov floundered - some of our troops were surrounded, some retreated to Stalingrad. Stalingrad acquired special strategic importance for the warring parties. For the Germans, it was an open road to the south, to the Caucasus and India, as Hitler dreamed. Thus began the 200 days and nights of Stalingrad, terrible and bloody.

[Russian Bear]

American Hollywood will never show something like this
Cinema from those who went through the war returns to the big screen. Fierce battles on the streets of the city, the battle for every house, rescuing people from the flooded metro and the apotheosis - the Victory Banner over the Reichstag. A film of the era, recreated in 4K, showing all the details of the decisive battle of the Great Patriotic War.
Trailer:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HgFXOfpT_UU

Movie:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eb7q6Q_l3Ic

War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, USSR)
Trailer:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2F4xklWw5-k

War and Peace, Part One | BASED ON LEO TOLSTOY NOVEL | FULL MOVIE:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bIij-KQ0jYU

War and Peace, Part Two | BASED ON LEO TOLSTOY NOVEL | FULL MOVIE:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uJjqSfdFuUI

"All thoughts that have huge consequences are always simple. My whole idea is that if vicious people are interconnected and make up strength, then honest people need to do the same," - with these words of Leo Tolstoy epic picture "War and Peace" begins. Film tells about the life of Russian society at the beginning of the 19th century. Against the backdrop of the tragic and dramatic events associated with the war with Napoleon, the psychological searches of Andrei Bolkonsky, Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov and other heroes of the famous novel are vividly presented.

IMDb rating: 8,3

Director: Bondarchuk Sergey
Screenwriters: Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasily Solovyov
Composer: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Operator: Petritsky Anatoly
Production designers: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennady Myasnikov, Said Menyashchikov, Semyon Valyushok, Alexander Dikhtyar
Cast: Oleg Efremov, Oleg Tabakov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Mikhail Vorobyov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Kira Golovko, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Vasily Lanovoy, Irina Skobtseva, Lyudmila Savelieva

Big golden prize to Bondarchuk S.F. at the IV International Film Festival, Moscow (1965);
The main prize "Golden Head of Palenque" and Diploma at the VIII review of festival films in Acapulco (Mexico) (1965); - Honorary Diploma to Bondarchuk S.F. at the XXVI IFF, Venice (1965);
An honorary prize for the complex movements of a movie camera during shooting and a diploma for it at the V International Technical Film Competition of the VII UNIATEK Congress in Prague (Czechoslovakia) (1966);
The highest prize "Pearl" for the best film at the Competition of the Japanese Association of Cinema Fans "Roei" (1966);
"Oscar" by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts in Los Angeles (USA) for the best foreign film in 1968 (1969);
First prize for the best foreign film for 1968. from the New York Film Critics Association (USA) (1969);
Award for 1968. Best Non-English Film from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (USA) (1969);
Diploma of participation at the IX IFF in Delhi (India) (1983)

VIY

Trailer:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3V85lh8JaEs

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4YmQn6q36HQ

Based on the story by Nikolai Gogol. Philosophy student Khoma Brut has to spend several nights at the coffin of a deceased lady in an old church in a distant village. But this little lady is a witch...

[madrotter]

Thanks for the tips, will watch a bunch of those I loved those two Brat (Brother) movies with Sergei Bodrov Jr., such a tragedy how he died so young, such a great actor.....

[Bill Ryan]

Do also see this important thread:

• Иди и смотри - "Come and See"

[madrotter]

Come and See stayed with me for weeks, incredible movie!! Another movie that was made in 2016 and which made a big impression on me was Wolyn (Hatred), about the mass killings of Polish citizens in Ukraine during WW II In the period of 1943-45. Stayed with me for a while too, insanely violent, and when I started reading about it.... They didn't even showed the worst of it, insane what happened there really....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=B-nwg693WCE

When I was 14 I saw a movie in the theater, it was for 18 years and older but a class mate's mum worked behind the ticket counter so I managed to get in.... When the movie started the theater was full. When it ended it was just me and only one other person there... That movie was Pasolini's Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom.... That movie stayed with me for the rest of my life... 14 Was way, way too young to see that movie, or to even understand it, even a little, but later in life I started to understand the incredible beauty of that terrible movie....

[Russian Bear]

Thanks for the comments, I have posted a couple more popular films in Russia. War and Peace shows incredible historical scenes of the war between the Russians and the French Napoleonic army. The Red Army was also involved in the film.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KXtpZieA1D0

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5e5kB5w1MFc

Follow the link: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1667535

[Russian Bear]

Belshazzar's Feasts, or Night with Stalin. Film. Drama

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OZf2qBZNUAY

A screen adaptation of the short story from Fazil Iskander's novel "Sandro from Chegem" about one of Stalin's and his cronies' nighttime revelries, where Sandro from Chegem performed as a soloist of the Abkhazian ensemble. After work (usual for an artist), the hero returns home, and soon the repressions begin - the artists who attended the last feast disappear... The action takes place in 1935.

[Russian Bear]

World War II. The barge on which Anatoly and his older friend Tikhon are transporting coal is captured by a German patrol ship. Begging for mercy from the Germans, Anatoly commits treason - he shoots Tikhon. The Germans leave the coward on a mined barge, but thanks to the help of the monks living in the monastery on the island, he manages to survive. Years pass. Elder Anatoly is revered for his righteous life and the truly miraculous help he provides to people who have come here. However, the terrible sin of murder, committed by him during the war, does not give him peace. Feeling the approach of his end, Anatoly prepares for death and does not yet know that he will soon be forgiven ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wz-vegualMg

[9ideon]

Posted by madrotter (here)
Thanks for the tips, will watch a bunch of those I loved those two Brat (Brother) movies with Sergei Bodrov Jr., such a tragedy how he died so young, such a great actor.....

Those were brilliant, glad you mentioned them.

[Russian Bear]

Posted by 9ideon (here)

Posted by madrotter (here)
Thanks for the tips, will watch a bunch of those I loved those two Brat (Brother) movies with Sergei Bodrov Jr., such a tragedy how he died so young, such a great actor.....

Those were brilliant, glad you mentioned them.

Thanks for the comment, but I made a mistake and accidentally posted the songs here. I edited the articles and fixed everything. Because of this, I had to add 1 movie, by the way, I really like it. So the songs are at this link: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1678401

[Jaak]

2 comedies by Aleksandr Rogozhkin.

¨ Peculiarities of national Hunting¨(1995) ,has english sub.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114055...job_1_cdt_t_15

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I8rMyYbsktk

¨Peculiarities of the National Fishing¨(1998) ,has subs .

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185584...job_1_cdt_t_12

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mLD-zLlD764

[Russian Bear]

How one Soviet cartoon influenced Japanese anime

"My destiny and my favorite film": this cartoon from the USSR changed Miyazaki - without him, the most popular studio in Japan, Ghibli, might not have existed.

This Soviet cartoon conquered the whole world and was translated and shown in many countries, from the USA to Japan.



The Soviet project saved the career of the Japanese animator.

Soviet cartoons are still considered benchmarks - they are loved for their atmosphere, style, and careful attitude towards children and adults. And many still look more powerful than modern animated blockbusters.

So it is not surprising that Hayao Miyazaki himself, a legend of Japanese animation and the creator of the Ghibli studio, was among their fans.

Moreover, there is one Soviet cartoon that Miyazaki not only liked - it literally saved his career. This is "The Snow Queen" from 1957. This fairy tale was written by Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish writer of fairy tales for children and adults. He was born on April 2, 1805 in Odense on the island of Funen in Denmark.

Snow Queen with English dubbing:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BaF6oqHZ-GM

Snow Queen with Russian dubbing:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AfzPShrQwng

At the beginning of his career, Miyazaki worked at Toei Doga Studios and quickly became disillusioned with the profession – he was on the verge of quitting. But in 1964, he accidentally went to a screening of The Snow Queen, organized by the union. And everything changed.

“If I hadn’t seen The Snow Queen that day, I doubt I would have continued working as an animator,” Miyazaki admitted.

He was literally glued to the cartoon. His friend recorded the soundtrack on tape, and Miyazaki began listening to it at work over and over again.



And in 2007, a poster with the Snow Queen and a signature from Miyazaki appeared in Ghibli Park:

"My destiny and my favorite movie."


"The Snow Queen" in Japan
The poster quotes Miyazaki as saying:
"This film decided my fate, and that's why I love it."
In the year of its fiftieth anniversary, "The Snow Queen" was shown in Japanese cinemas.

Gerda's features impressed Miyazaki - especially in the scene where she gives her shoes to the lake. She travels the world, losing more and more things, while her spirit transforms the people she meets along the way.

What struck him most was the scene with the Bandit. It is far from the culmination of the cartoon, but for Miyazaki it became one of the main endings:



"When the Robber Girl listens to Gerda, she suddenly understands: she herself has no one she could love. All her life she tried to dominate others - and suddenly she realized that she does not want power, but closeness.

That is why she frees all the captured animals and tells them to get out of here. This is her only way to show love," Miyazaki shared his thoughts.



Similar heroines could later be seen in Miyazaki’s own works, for example, in Kiki’s Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, or Ponyo.



The funniest thing is that Miyazaki always criticized Disney cartoons, while the artist of "The Snow Queen" Leonid Shvartsman, on the contrary, was inspired by "Bambi". It turns out that Miyazaki, without knowing it, was indirectly inspired by the American classic.

That's how one cartoon from the USSR not only got into the heart of the Japanese animator, but became his starting point. And who knows - maybe without this meeting, there would be no Ghibli studio.

[madrotter]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nP4KSXq5V7E

i loved this one, by Aleksei German, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. you do have to read at least what the story is about otherwise it won't make any sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_t...God_(2013_film)