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This page covers three kinds of movies relating to Russia and-or the Soviet Union (and-or former S.S.R. states):
the first is the cinema created in Russia by Russian artists; the second is of Russian artists working elsewhere (as Eisenstein and
Andrei Tarkovsky did); and the third are the many movies made in Hollywood and Europe about Russian subject matter,
such as "Dr. Zhivago", "Reds", "Anna Karenina", and "Dersu Uzala".
Cinema of Russia entry at Wikipedia
Cinema of The Soviet Union entry at Wikipedia
search cinema books on keywords 'cinema russia soviet' {returns 140+ titles} at Amazon
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"Anthem of The Communist Party of The Soviet Union" sung by the Red Army Choir
Written as the "Hymn of The Bolshevik Party" in 1938; unofficial Communist Party Anthem for years until officially adopted in 2016.
watch music & slide show [4/2015 upload; 2:19] online at YouTube
"State Anthem of The Soviet Union"
Replaced "The Internationale" of the worldwide Communist Party in March 1944; the lyrics were revised in 1977 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution;
in 1991, the New Russian Dederation adopted the a cappela "Patriotic Song" as national anthem, then reverted to the 1977 version in late 2001.
watch 1944 Pathe News parade footage [11/2016 upload; 3:09] online at YouTube
Books on Russian & Soviet Cinema
search cinema books on keywords 'cinema russia soviet' {returns 140+ titles} at Amazon
 | "Kino: A History of The Russian and Soviet Film" [orig 1960, rev 1983] by Jay Leyda [1910-88] Princeton Univ Press 3rd edition 9x5¾ pb [8/83] for $42.34 Princeton Univ Press 3rd edition hardcover [8/83] out of print/used |
 | "The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema In Documents, 1896-1939" [1988] by Ian Christie Routledge 10x6¾ pb [12/94] for $51.95 Harvard Univ Press 10¼x8 hardcover [5/88] out of print/used |
 | "Inside The Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian & Soviet Cinema" [1991] Edited by Richard Taylor & Ian Christie Routledge 9x6½ pb [12/94] for $37.79 Routledge 9x6½ hardcover [6/91] for $130.00 |
 | "Movies For The Masses: Popular Cinema & Soviet Society In The 1920s" [1992] by Denise J. Youngblood Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [11/93] for $50.00 Cambridge Univ Press hardcover [10/92] out of print/used |
 | "Early Cinema In Russia and Its Cultural Reception" [1994] by Yuri Tsivian, translated by Alan Bodger, edited by Richard Taylor Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [8/98] for $30.00 Routledge 9¼x6½ hardcover [12/94] orig $150.00, out of print/used |
 | "Film Posters of The Russian Avant-Garde" [1995] by Susan Pack Taschen 12½x10 jumbo hardcover [10/95] out of print/used |
 | "Magic Mirror: Moviemaking In Russia, 1908-1918" [1999] by Denise J. Youngblood Univ WI Press 9x6 pb [4/99] for $19.95 Univ WI Press 9x6 hardcover [4/99] out of print/used |
 | "Cinema and Soviet Society: From The Revolution To The Death of Stalin" [2001] by Peter Kenez I.B. Tauris 9x6 pb [3/2001] for $32.00 I.B. Tauris 9¾x9¼ hardcover [3/2001] for $89.95 |
 | "The Silent Film Poster: Russia, 1900-1930" [2002] by Nina Barburina
Art-Rodnik 12½x9¼ hardcover [11/2002] out of print/used "The Silent Film Poster, 1908-1934" [2011] by Nina Barburina
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 | "Russian Cinema" (Inside Film Series) [2002] by David Gillespie (University of Bath, U.K.) Prof. Gillespie presents a topical analysis covering 300 Russian films Longman 9x6 pb [12/2002] for $28.21 |
 | "Russian War Films: On The Cinema Front, 1914-2005" [2006] by Denise J. Youngblood Univ Press of Kansas9¼x6¼ pb [11/2006] for $27.96 |
 | "The Cinema of Russia & The Former Soviet Union (24 Frames Series)" [2006] Edited by Birgit Beumers, Preface by Alexei Balabanov Wallflower Press 9x7½ pb [12/2006] for $29.50 Wallflower Press 9½x7½ hardcover [12/2006] for $80.00 |
 | "Soviet Posters: The Sergo Grigorian Collection" [2007] by Maria Lafont Prestel Publng 9½x8 pb [5/2007] for $18.25 |
 | "Russians In Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of An Image" [2007] by Harlow Robinson Northeastern Univ Press 9x6½ hardcover [11/2007] for $29.95 |
 | "Picturing Russia: Explorations In Visual Culture" [2008] Edited by Valerie A. Kivelson & Joan Neuberger Fifty chronologically-organized essay-vignettes, illustrated with more than one hundred images; covers a thousand years of Russian/Soviet culture, including consumer goods, architecture, religious icons, portraits, photography, folk art, and cinema. Yale Univ Press 10x7 hardcover [4/2008] for $26.00 |
 | "Insiders and Outsiders In Russian Cinema" [2008] Edited by Stephen M. Norris & Zara M. Torlone essays by Anthony Anemone, Julian Graffy, Peter Kenez, Joan Neuberger, Stephen Norris, Oleg Sulkin, Yuri Tsivian, Emma Widdis & Josephine Woll Indiana Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [4/2008] for $21.95 Indiana Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2008] for $55.00 |
 | "A History of Russian Cinema" [2009] by Birgit Beumers Berg Publrs 9x6 pb [2/2009] for $29.95 Berg Publrs 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2009] for $87.75 |
 | "Something About Russian Films: History, Themes, Genres, Directors" [2011] by Alexander Fedorov Lambert Academic Publng 8¾x6 pb [2/2011] for $81.00 |
 | "Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader" [2018] Edited & Introduced by Anindita Banerjee Academic Studies Press 9¼x6 pb [2/2018] for $34.36 Academic Studies Press 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2018] for $103.98 {sic} |
"Russia On Reels: The Russian Idea In Post-Soviet Cinema" [10/1999] by Birgit Beumers
http://www.amazon.com/Russia-Reels-Russian-Post-Soviet-Cinema/dp/1860643906/
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Filmmakers of Russia
NOTE: Oscar Awards for Best Foreign Language Film are not attributed
by A.M.P.A.S. or IMDb to the director or producer, but to the country of origin.
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Yevgeni Bauer [1865-1917]
Bauer made more than seventy films between 1913 and 1917, of which 26 survive
"The greatest director you've never heard of." — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times film critic
IMDb listing {27 credits 1913-17} •
Wikipedia
 | "Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer" [2003] contains three silent feature films: "Twilight of A Woman's Soul" [1913] starring Nina Chernova; "After Death" [1915] based on Turgenev's story 'Clara Milich' starring Vera Karalli; and "The Dying Swan" [1916] starring ballerina Vera Karalli; bonus features: commentary, 37-minute documentary on Bauer by film scholar Yuri Tsivian, stills gallery {Russian intertitles probably have English subtitles.} Milestone Cinematheque silent b&w DVD [2013] for $24.95 Image Ent. silent b&w DVD [12/2003] for $24.95 |
 | "Early Russian Cinema, Volume Seven: Evgeni Bauer, 1914-1915" [2012]
includes three films directed by Yevgeni Bauer: "Ditya Bolshogo Goroda (Child of The Big City)" featurette [March 1914]; "Tysyacha Vtoraya Khitrost (The 1002nd Ruse)" short [May 1915]; and "Gryozy (Daydreams)" featurette [Oct 1915] regarded by many as Bauer's surviving masterpiece Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R [2012] for $24.95 |
"Twilight of A Woman's Soul" [Nov 1913] starring Nina Chernova
"Ditya Bolshogo Goroda (Child of The Big City)" featurette [March 1914] directed by Yevgeni Bauer
"Nemye Svideteli (Silent Witnesses)" feature film [April 1914] directed by Yevgeni Bauer
"Tysyacha Vtoraya Khitrost (The 1002nd Ruse)" short [May 1915] directed by Yevgeni Bauer
"Gryozy (Daydreams)" featurette [Oct 1915] directed by Yevgeni Bauer - regarded by many as his surviving masterpiece
"Posle Smerti (After Death)" [1915] based on Turgenev's story 'Clara Milich'
directed by Yevgeni Bauer, starring Vera Karalli
"The Dying Swan" [1916] directed by Yevgeni Bauer, starring ballerina Vera Karalli
"Zhizn za zhizn (A Life for A Life)" aka "Her Sister's Rival" feature film [May 1916] adapted & directed by Yevgeni Bauer
"The Revolutionary" short [April 1917] directed by Yevgeni Bauer, written by & starring Ivan Perestiani;
"Za schastem (For Luck)" featurette [Sept 1917] directed by Yevgeni Bauer
37-minute documentary on Bauer by film scholar Yuri Tsivian
Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk [Russia; 1920-94]
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
 | "Red Bells (Krasnye Kolokola) I: Mexico On Fire" [Russia/Mosfilm 1982] American journalist John Reed's description of the beginnings of the revolution in Mexico, circa 1913. 135-minute film co-written & directed by Sergei Bondarchuk; based on the 1919 book "Ten Days That Shook The World" by John Reed [1887-1920]; starring Franco Nero {as John Reed}, Ursula Andress {as Mabel Dodge, Jorge Luke {as Emiliano Zapata}, Blanca Guerra, Heraclio Zepeda & Jorge Reynoso {as Pancho Villa}; won Crystal Globe Award at Karlovy Vary Film Festival DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia "Red Bells (Krasnye Kolokola) II" [Russia/Mosfilm 1983] American journalist John Reed's description of the beginnings of the revolution in Russia, 1917-18. 139-minute film co-written & directed by Sergei Bondarchuk; based on the 1919 book "Ten Days That Shook The World" by John Reed [1887-1920]; starring Franco Nero {as John Reed}, Sydne Rome, Olegar Fedoro DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
A new restoration of Sergei Bondarchuk’s sprawling 1960s film adaptation of Tolstoy’s "War and Peace" screened at Film Society of Lincoln Center in February 2019.
Magic Lantern's
Sergei Eisenstein [1898-1948] Page
Russian-born Eisenstein also worked in France & Mexico
Marina Goldovskaya [Russia & U.S.A.]
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Wikipedia
production company Gold Films in Los Angeles, CA
Rustum Khamdamov
no videos/DVDs at Amazon • IMDb listing
Nikita Mikhalkov
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Wikipedia
 | "Nikita Mikhalkov: Between Nostalgia & Nationalism" [2005] by Birgit Beumers I.B. Tauris 8½x5½ pb [1/2005] for $28.95 |
filmmaker Yakov Protazanov [1881-1945]
"Aelita: The Queen of Mars" silent film [Soviet Russia 1924]
directed by Protazanov; Yuliya Solntseva as the title character; details coded below
Stanislav Rostotsky [1922-2001]
Larisa Shepitko [1938-79]
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Wikipedia
short career: 5 feature films, plus bio-documentary "Larisa" [1980]
Aleksandr Sokurov
DVDs of Sokurov at Amazon • IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
'Island of Sokurov' official website + English-language subsite
 | "Moskovskaya Elegiya (Moscow Elegy)" [1987] documentary about Andrei Tarkovsky's last years of life, including the making of the film "The Sacrifice" • Directed & narrated by Aleksandr Sokurov; cinematography by Aleksandr Burov; with archive footage of Andrei Tarkovsky & Tonino Guerra Facets Video/Ideale Audience color/b&w DVD [12/2006] out of prodn/SOLD OUT! full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Dialogues With Solzhenitsyn" [1998]
"Moloch" [1999] about Hitler
"Taurus" [2001] about Lenin
epic "Russian Ark" [2002]
"Father and Son" [2003]
"The Sun" [2005] about Hirohito
"Alexandra" [2007]
"Faust" [2010] starring Johannes Zeiler & Hanna Schygulla
Yuliya Ippolitovna Solnetseva [Russia 1901-88]
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Wikipedia
"Aelita: The Queen of Mars" silent film [Soviet Russia 1924]
Solnetseva acted the role of the title character; details coded below
Solntseva directed a trilogy of dazzlingly virtuosic and profound films, rarely seen in the U.S.
"Poem of An Inland Sea (Poema o Moru)" [Soviet Russia Nov 1958] /tt0053177/
"The Story of The Flaming Years (Povest Plamennykh Let)" [Soviet Russia Feb 1961] /tt0054199/
"The Enchanted Desna (Zacharovannaya Desna)" [Soviet Russia 1964] /tt0175345/
Andrei Tarkovsky [Russia 1932-86]
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Tarkovsky filmography at Wikipedia
Andrei Tarkovsky International Foundation
Nostalghia.com - tribute to Andrei Tarkovsky [est. 2000]
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/index.html
"Ivan's Childhood" [1962] Tarkovsky's first feature film
"Andrei Rublev" [1966]
"Solaris" [1972]
"Mirror" [1975]
"Stalker" [1979]
"Voyage in Time" documentary [Italy 1982] by Andrei Tarkovsky
"Nostalghia" [Italy 1983]
"Un Poeta nel Cinema: Andreij Tarkovskij" documentary [Italy 1984]
Directed by Donatella Baglivo • video/DVD not available •
credits at IMDb
"The Sacrifice" [Sweden 1986] = see below
| | "Moskovskaya Elegiya (Moscow Elegy)" [1987] documentary about Andrei Tarkovsky's last years of life, including the making of the film "The Sacrifice" • Directed & narrated by Aleksandr Sokurov; cinematography by Aleksandr Burov; with archive footage of Andrei Tarkovsky & Tonino Guerra Facets Video/Ideale Audience color/b&w DVD [12/2006] out of prodn/SOLD OUT! full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky" feature-length documentary [1988] /tt0095967
"Tarkovski Elegia" interview clip [2011?] in Russian {echo} & Italian voiceover with Portuguese subtitles
watch 2/2011 video [4:06] online at YouTube
Tarkovsky wrote a book on film theory
diaries are sometimes also known as Martyrolog and were published posthumously in 1989 and in English in 1991.
"Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids" [2006] a book of 60 photos, taken by Tarkovsky in Russia & Italy between 1979 and 1984
Dziga Vertov [1896-1954]
Authors of Russia
The information coded here was merged into the Spirit of America Bookstore Authors of Russia Page (created 2/2019).
Actors of Russia
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Other Foreign Actors
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actress Chulpan Khamatova
official website {in Cyrillic} •
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Silent-Era actress Vera Kholodnaya [1893-1919]
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"Slave To Love" biopic [Russia 1975] by Nikita Mikhalkov
"Island of The Dead" documentary [1992] by Oleg Kovalov
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actress Olga Kurylenko
Bond Girl in "Quantum of Solace"
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actress Agniya Kuznetsova
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Silent Era actor Ivan Mozzhukhin
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veteran Soviet actor Viktor Sergachev
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Selected Films
from Russia & about Russia
{ in alphabetical order }
The Soviet Union's films received 2 Best Foreign Language Oscar® wins {thru 1991},
and Russia has since received 1 Best Foreign Language Oscar® win,
among 14 Best Foreign Film nominations (one for Russian Georgia).
Wikipedia's lists of Russia's and Soviet Russia's submissions for Oscar consideration
Selected movies of: Asia
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browse European Cinema / Russia on DVD {returns 200+ titles} at Amazon
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"Masters of Russian Animation" [1998 & 2000]
  | 'as seen on Bravo and the Independent Film Channel'; in Russian with English subtitles
Volume 1, 1962-68: includes 10 animated short films from Russia — "Story of One Crime" [1962] by Fyodor Khitruk; "Man In A Frame" [1966] by Fyodor Khitruk; "My Green Crocodile" [1966] by Vadim Kurchevsky; "There Lived Kozyavin" [1966] by Andrei Khrjanovsky; "Mountain of Dinosaurs" [1967] by Rasa Strautmane; "Passions of Spies" [1967] by Yefem Gamburg; "Glass Harmonica" [1968] by Andrei Khrjanovsky; "Ball of Yarn" [1968] by Nikolai Serebryakov; "Singing Teacher" [1968] by Anatoly Petrov; and "Film Film Film" [1968] by Fyodor Khitruk Films By Jove/Image Ent. color DVD [4/2000] out of prodn/used Volume 2, 1969-78: includes 12 animated short films from Russia — "Seasons" [1969] by I. Ivanov-Vano; "Ballerina On A Boat" [1969] by L. Atama-nov; "Armoire" [1970] by A. Khrjanovsky; "Battle of Kerjenets" [1971] by I. Ivanov-Vano & Yuri Norstein; "Butterfly" [1972] by A. Khrjanovsky; "Island " [1973] by Fyodor Khitruk; "Fox and Rabbit" [1973] by Y. Norstein; "Heron and Crane" [1974] by Y. Norstein; "Hedgehog In The Fog" [1975] by Y. Norstein; "Crane's Feathers" [1977] by I. Garanina; "Firing Range" [1975] by A. Petrov; and "Contact" [1978] by Vladimir Tarasov Films By Jove/Image Ent. color DVD [5/2000] out of prodn/used Volume 3, 1979-85: includes 11 animated short films from Russia — "Tale of Tales", "Hunt", "Cabaret", "Last Hunt", "There Was A Dog", "Travels of An Ant", "Lion and Bull", "Wolf and Calf", "Old Stair", "King's Sandwich", and "About Sidorov Vova" Films By Jove/Image Ent. color DVD [8/2000] out of prodn/used Volume 4, 1986-90: includes 12 animated short films from Russia — "Door" [1986] by Nina Shorina; "Boy is A Boy" [1986] by Natasha Golovanova; "Liberated Don Quixote" [1987] by Vadim Kurchevsky; "Martynko" [1987] by Eduard Nazarov; "Big Under-ground Ball" [1987] by Stanislav Soko-lov; "Dream" [1988] by Nina Shorina; "Cat and Clown" [1988] by Natasha Golovanova; "Kele" [1988] by Mikhail Aldashin & Peep Pedmanson; "Alter Ego" [1989] by Nina Shorina; "Girlfriend" [1989] by Yelena Gavrilko; "Croak x Croak" [1990] by Yelena Fedorova; and "Cat and Company" [1990] by Alexander Guriev [YouTube 9:44] Films By Jove/Image Ent. color DVD [12/2000] for $39.99 Volume 5, Children's Collection: animated short films from Russia, released on VHS in 1998 Films By Jove/First Look Home Ent color VHS [1998] for $14.97 |
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"Early Russian Cinema" in Ten Volumes [Milestone Film & Video 2010]
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Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R box set [2010] for $225.00 from producer {or maybe $100}
Volumes 1 & 2: Beginnings, 1908-1911 and Folklore & Legend, 1908-1912 [2012] includes six short films: Goncharov's "Sten’ka Razin" short [Oct 1908], the first Russian narrative film; "Russian Wedding" short [April 1909] adapted & directed by Vasili Goncharov; Pushkin’s "Rusalka" [March 1910] adapted & directed by Vasili Goncharov; "Princess Tarakanova" short [Nov 1910]; Chekhov's "Romance With A Double Bass" short [Nov 1911]; and Pushkin’s "The Brigand Brothers" short [1912] adapted & directed by Vasili Goncharov Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R [2012] for $24.95 Volume Three: Ladislaw Starewicz’s Fantasies, 1913-1915 [2012] includes three short films: Krylov's "The Dragonfly and The Ant" animated short [Feb 1913]; Gogol's "Christmas Eve" [Dec 1913]; and "Liliya Belgii (Lily of Belgium)" animated short [1915] Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R [2012] for $24.95 Volume Four: Provincial Variations, 1912-1913 [2010] includes two films: "Den Venchaniya (The Wedding Day)" short [1912] and "Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter" {aka "Drama On The Volga"} featurette [Nov 1913] by Nikolai Larin Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R [2010] for $21.96 Volume Five: Pyotr Chardynin’s Pushkin, 1910-1913 [2012] includes two films: "Pikovaya Dama (The Queen of Spades)" short [Nov 1910] and "Domik v Kolomne (The House In Kolomna)" short [Oct 1913] Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R [2012] for $24.95 Volume Six: Class Distinctions, 1912-1914 [2012] includes two films: "Krestyanskaya Dolya (The Peasant's Lot)" short [Nov 1912] directed by Vasili Goncharov and "Nemye Svideteli (Silent Witnesses)" feature film [April 1914] directed by 'the incredible Evgeni Bauer' Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R [2012] for $24.95 Volume Seven: Evgeni Bauer, 1914-1915 [2012] includes three films directed by Yevgeni Bauer [1865-1917]: "Ditya bolshogo goroda (Child of The Big City)" featurette [March 1914]; "Tysyacha Vtoraya Khitrost (The 1002nd Ruse)" short [May 1915]; and "Gryozy (Daydreams)" featurette [Oct 1915] regarded by many as Bauer's surviving masterpiece Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R [2012] for $24.95 Volume Eight: Iakov Protazanov, 1912-1916 [2012] includes two films directed by Yakov Protazanov [1881-1945]: "Ukhod Velikago Startso (The Departure of A Grand Old Man)" aka "Zhizn’ L.N. Tolstogo (The Life of L.N. Tolstoy)" [1912]; and "Pikovaia Dama (Pushkin's The Queen of Spades)" feature film [April 1916] Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R [2012] for $86.64 {sic} Volume Nine: High Society, 1916-1919 [2012] "Antosia Zgubil Gorset (Antosha Ruined By A Corset)" short [Jan 1916], one of 24 Antosha shorts made by the Czech-born comic actor Antoni Fertner [1874-1959]; and "Zhizn za zhizn (A Life for A Life)" aka "Her Sister's Rival" feature film [May 1916] adapted & directed by Yevgeni Bauer [1865-1917] Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R [2012] for $24.95 Volume Ten: The End of an Era [1917] includes three films "The Revolutionary" short [April 1917] directed by Yevgeni Bauer [1865-1917], written by & starring Ivan Perestiani; "Za Schastem (For Luck)" featurette [Sept 1917] directed by Yevgeni Bauer [1865-1917]; and "Kulisy Ekrana (Behind The Screen)", a fragment of the major two-part film "A Life Destroyed By Pitiless Fate" [Nov 1917 ] co-written & co-directed by Georg Asagaroff & Alexandre Volkoff Milestone Cinematheque b&w DVD-R [2012] for $24.95 |
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"Landmarks of Early Soviet Film" DVD Box Set [2011]
 | contains 8 b&w silent films on 4 disks totaling 10 hours run time:
Lev Kuleshov's "The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks" [1924]; Dziga Vertov's highly experimental "Shagay, Sovet! (Stride, Soviet)" [1926]; Lev Kuleshov's "Po Zakonu (By The Law)" [Dec 1926], a tense drama set in Alaska based upon a short story by Jack London; Esther Shub's "Fall of The Romanov Dynasty" [1927], culled from pre-Soviet Russian newsreels gathered from Europe and America (with full-screen English intertitles); Boris Barnet's "Dom na Trubnoy (The House On Trubnaya)" [1928], often described as the best Soviet silent comedy ever; Sergei M. Eisenstein's seldom seen last silent "Old and New (Staroye i Novoye)" [May 1929]; Viktor Turin's "Turksib" [Oct 1929] about the building of the Turkestan-Siberian Railway (with full-screen English intertitles); Mikhail Kalatozov's "Marili Svanets (Salt For Svanetia)" (1930), which explores the Ushkul tribe, still living in a stone-age culture; six films are presented with original Russian intertitles and English subtitles; all have new musical scores by Robert Israel, Eric Beheim, Alexander Rannie, or Zoran Borisavljevic
Flicker Alley b&w DVD [9/2011] for $52.69 |
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Selected Russian Music Videos
"Tachanka" revolutionary song [1937]
a tachanka was a horse-drawn machine gun; animated short film by Inessa Alexeyevna Kovalevskaya
watch Russian-language music video [10/2008 upload; 3:37] online at YouTube
Renat Ibragimov sings "Tachanka" with the Red Army Orchestra & Chorus and cossack dancers
watch Russian-language music video [9/2008 upload; 3:21] online at YouTube
Lyube / Lyub / Love Russian rock band [est. 1989]
from Lyubertsy, a city in Moscow Oblast; their music is a mixture of several genres, with influences from Russian folk music and patriotic songs
official website •
entry at Wikipedia
list of 128 Lyube band Top Tracks videos online at YouTube
Lyube band index page at the Lyrics Translate website [est. 2008]
"The Red Army Is The Strongest" marching song [1920] with the Red Army Chorus
song is popularly known as White Army, Black Baron
watch Russian-language 3/2014 concert video [12/2014 upload; 3:07] online at YouTube
"Ne Valyay Duraka, Amerika (Don't Make A Fool of Yourself, America!)"
watch Russian-language 3/2014 concert video [12/2014 upload; 3:25] online at YouTube
5/2014 translation to English at the Lyrics Translate website [est. 2008]
"Kombat (Battalion Commander)"
watch Russian-language 3/2014 concert video [4:57] online at YouTube
8/2017 translation to English at the Lyrics Translate website [est. 2008]
"Taganskaya Station"
watch Russian-language 3/2014 concert video [3:27] online at YouTube
watch Russian-language 1996 concert video with the Red Army Chorus [3:26] online at YouTube
10/2015 translation to English at the Lyrics Translate website [est. 2008]
"The (Rail) Road / Doroga (Guys of Our Regiment)"
watch Russian-language 2/2004 concert video [] online at YouTube
3/2016 translation to English at the Lyrics Translate website [est. 2008]
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"A Chef In Love" [Russian Georgia 1996]
Nana Dzhordzhadze BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"
[Soviet Russia 1979-1986]
 | Soviet television produced a series of five TV films between 1979 and 1986 about 'Tserloka Xolmsa i Doktora Vatsona' at the Lenfilm movie studio; the series was split into eleven episodes and starred Vasily Livanov as Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Watson
color all-region DVDs with English subtitles [undated] 6 disks - out of prodn/import/used Russian TV series page at Sherlock Holmes Society see also the Sherlock Holmes Film Festival at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore |
"Aelita, The Queen of Mars" silent film [Soviet Russia 1924]
 
| Hailed as the first Soviet science-fiction feature film, famous for its extraordinary sets and costumes; based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy, music written by Dmitri Shostakovich. Benjamin De Casseres replaced the intertitles in English and edited the film for re-release North America in 1929 as "Aelita: Revolt of The Robots". The film fell into disfavor in the Soviet Union and was seldom seen after the 1930s • A Russian engineer slips into fantasies of a trip by rocket to Mars, where the daughter of the ruler falls for him, her father expels them, and the Russians explain revolution to the peasants, who then topple the existing government in favor of rule by Aelita • Produced at Mezh-rabpom-Rus; directed by Yakov Protazanov; adapted by Aleksei Fajko & Fyodor Otsep; starring Yuliya Solnetseva {as Aelita), Nikolai Tsereteli, Valentina Kuindzhi, Nikolay Batalov, Konstantin Eggert, Yuri Zavadsky, Pavel Pol, Aleksandra Peregonets, Igor Ilyinsky, Vera Orlova, Sofya Levitina, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Zharov, Iosif Tolchanov, Tamara Adelgeym, Vladimir Uralskiy, N. Tretyakova & Galina Kravchenko (cameo)
Blackhawk/Flicker Alley b&w DVD [4/2015] for $19.95 Image Ent. b&w DVD [3/2012] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch full movie, no music [2/2014 upload; 1:51:31] FREE online at Internet Archive "Aelita: or, The Decline of Mars" [1923 novel] by Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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"Alexander Nevsky" [Mosfilm/Russia Nov 1938]
 | True epic tale of a XIIIth Century Russian prince who rallied the people to form a ragtag army and repel Teutonic invaders at Novgorod • Co-written & co-directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein [1898-1948]; co-directed by Dmitri Vasilyev; co-written by Pyotr Pavlenko; music by Sergei Prokofiev; starring Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov & Andrei Abrikosov
Image Ent. subtitled b&w DVD [10/98] for $21.99 Kultur Video subtitled b&w VHS [6/95] out of prodn/used Soundtrack Factory soundtrack CD by Sergei Prokofiev [10/2000] for $11.99 full credits from IMDb • film entry at Wikipedia |
"Andrei Rublev" [Russia]
http://www.amazon.com/Andrei-Rublev-Criterion-Collection-Spine/dp/6305257450/
"Animated Soviet Propaganda" DVD Box Set [1997]
 | full title: "Animated Soviet Propaganda: From The October Revolution To Perestroika"
Kino Video DVD set [6/97] six hours on 4 disks for $80.99 contains 41 b&w & color Russian-language short films – DISK 1 American Imperialists: "Ave Maria" [1972], "Black and White" [1933] with Paul Robeson, "The Millionaire" [1963], "Mister Twister" [1963], "Mr. Volk" [1949], "Shooting Range" [1979] by Vladimir Tarasov, and "Someone Else's Voice" [1949] by Ivan Ivanov-Vano; DISK 2 Fascist Barbarians: "A Lesson Not Learned" [1971], "The Adventures of The Young Pioneers" [1971], "Attention! Wolves!" [1970], "Fascist Boots (Shall Not Trample Our Motherland)" [1941], "Kino Circus" [1942], "The Pioneer's Violin" [1971], Political Satire (four Anti-Hitler newsreels) [1941], "Tale of A Toy" [1984], "To You, Moscow" [1947], "Vasilyok" [1973], "The Vultures" [1941], and "We Can Do It" [1970]; DISK 3 CapitalistSharks: “China In Flames" [1925], “Interplanetary Revolution" [1924], “Prophets and Lessons" [1967], |
| “Proud Little Ship" [1966], “The Shareholder" [1963], and “We’ll Keep Our Eyes Peeled" [1927]; DISK 4 Onward To The Shining Future: “A Hot Stone" [1925], “Forward March, Time!" [1977], “Join The Cooperative" [1925], “Lenin's Kino Pravda" [1924], “The Music Box" [1933], “Plus Electrification" [1972], “Samoyed Boy" [1928], “Songs of The Years of Fire" [1971], “Soviet Toys” [1924] directed by Dziga Vertov, “Victorious Destination" [1939], and “War Chronicles" [1939] |
"Anna Karenina" [1935] /tt0026071/
starring Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew
"Anna Karenina" [1948] /tt0040098/
Produced by Alexander Korda; starring Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson
"Anna Karenina" [Focus Features Nov 2012]
 | Lavish 130-minute look at Russian aristocracy circa 1870s, a stirringly epic story of love;
directed by Joe Wright from Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard's bold adaptation of Tolstoy's 1878 novel; starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Jude Law DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"The Battleship Potemkin"
aka "Bronenosets Potyomkin 1905"
[Russia/Goskino Dec 1925; reissued 1950]
 | Based on the historical Odessa revolt of 1905; sailors aboard the battleship Potemkin refuse to eat rancid meat and the admiral orders them shot; the sailors mutiny and kill the officers; the citizens of Odessa rally behind the sailors; cossacks arrive and slaughter the unarmed citizens on the harbor steps (famous sequence) and then the Russian navy destroys the Potemkin.
Co-written, directed & edited by Sergei M. Eisenstein [1898-1948]; starring Aleksandr Antonov Kino Video b&w Blu-ray [4/2010] for $25.99 Image Ent. b&w DVD [10/98] for $23.49 Delta b&w DVD [3/2004] out of prodn/used Hollywood Select Video b&w VHS [8/97] out of prodn/used Soundtrack Factory Edmund Meisel soundtrack CD [9/2000] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia movie poster art print {4 sizes} available at AllPosters.com |
 | "Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin: A Shot-By-Shot Presentation" [1972] by David Mayer Da Capo Press 8x5½ pb [1/2001] for $16.95 Viking hardcover [2/72] out of print/used |
 | "The Battleship Potemkin: The Film Companion" [1988] by Richard Taylor I.B. Tauris 8½x5½ pb [3/2001] for $21.95 "Battleship Potemkin" script [1984] critical text by Andrew Sinclair
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"The Brothers Karamazov" [Soviet Union 1969]
BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Burnt By The Sun"
aka "Utomlyonnye Solntsem" [Russia 1994]
by Nikita Mikhalkov; won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
http://www.amazon.com/Burnt-Sun-Film-Companion-KINOfile/dp/1860643965/
"By The Law (Po Zakonu)" [Dec 1926]
Lev Kuleshov's tense drama set in Alaska based upon a short story by Jack London
award-winning "Chernobyl: Based On The Untold True Story" 5-part cable mini-series
[Home Box Office May-June 2019]
    | Detailed report on the incident, the attempted recovery, the cover-up, and the dangerous exposé; “a gruesome, riveting fable”; partial remake of the 1991 TV movie; the five episodes are: 1) "1:23:45"; 2) "Please Remain Calm"; 3) "Open Wide, O Earth"; 4) "The Happiness of All Mankind"; and 5) "Vichnaya Pamyat (Eternal Memory)" • Co-produced & directed by Johan Renck; co-produced & written by Craig Mazin; starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jessie Buckley, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Adam Nagaitis, Sam Troughton, Robert Emms, Con O'Neill, Adrian Rawlins, Alan Williams, Karl Davies, Michael Socha, Laura Elphinstone, Jan Ricica, David Dencik {as Michail Gorbatchev}, Ralph Ineson, Mark Lewis Jones, Rosie Sheehy; highest cable show viewer ratings of all time on IMDb (9.7 out of 10); series won 10 Primetime Emmy Awards & 9 other noms, won 3 BAFTA Awards, won AFI TV Program of the Year Award, DGA Award, 14 OFTA TV Awards, Peabody Award in 2020, 2 Satellite Awards, WGA Award; music won Grammy Award, SCL Award
H.B.O. color Blu-ray [10/2019] 2 disks for $18.67 Warner Bros. color DVD+digital HD [10/2019] 2 disks for $19.96 H.B.O. color 4k HD format DVD [10/2020] 4 disks for $26.80 full credits at IMDb • official movie site • series entry at Wikipedia watch 3/2019 official trailer [2:38] at YouTube |
Lots more details on this hit cable series - podcasts, soundtrack album - on
Spirit of America Bookstore's Atomic U.S.A. Page 3 - Chernobyl 1991 Disaster Section
"Close To Eden" [Russia 1992] Nikita Mikhalkov
BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"The Cold Summer of 1953" [Mosfilm 1987]
Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin /tt0095441/
"The Commissar (Komissar)" [Goskino 1967 & 1988]
  | Film was deemed non-Soviet and suppressed by the K.G.B. for twenty years, and the director was exiled from Moscow and forbidden to make films; story has a female Red Army officer sidetracked due to pregnancy; she stays with a Jewish family in Berdichev, Ukraine and is softened somewhat by family life. (The original short story was highly-praised by Maxim Gorky.) • Adapted & directed by Aleksandr Askoldov, based on a short story by Vasiliy Grossman; starring Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov, Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Lyudmila Volynskaya, Vasiliy Shukshin, Lyubov Kats, Pavel Levin, Dmitri Kleyman, Marta Bratkova, Igor Fishman, Sergey Nikonenko, Otar Koberidze, Viktor Shakhov
Kino Lorber Films widescreen b&w DVD [3/2007] 2 disks for $21.87 Kino Video widescreen b&w VHS [6/2000] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch full movie - ads, no subtitles [12/2016 upload; 1:43:56] online at YouTube |
"The Cranes Are Flying" aka "Letyat zhuravli"
[Russia Oct 1957, USA March 1960]
 | The first post-Stalin film to address the reality of World War II in Russia; young Boris volunteers for the army, then dies heroically, but is listed as missing in action; his family takes in his fiancé Veronika, who is raped by and forced to marry his brother, Mark; the father finds out that Mark got out of the draft by bribing an official, and bans the boy, allowing Veronika to stay; the man Boris saved visits the family to thank them, but Veronika refuses to believe that Boris is dead; when the victorious troops return home, Boris's best friend confirms that Boris died a hero, followed by several uplifting speeches • Produced & directed by Mikhail Kalatozov; written by Viktor Rozov, based on his stageplay; starring Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Nikitin & Valentin Zubkov; won Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival
Criterion b&w DVD [4/2002] for $26.99 Connoisseur Video b&w VHS [10/92] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Cranes Are Flying: The Film Companion" [2003] by Josephine Woll I.B. Tauris 8¾x5½ pb [9/2003] for $24.50 |
"The Dawns Here Are Quiet" [Soviet Union 1972]
Stanislav Rostotsky BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"The Death of Stalin" comedy film [eOne/Gaumont/I.F.C. Oct 2017]
 | 'A Comedy of Terrors!' • In the days following Stalin's sudden collapse, his core team of ministers tussle for control; some want positive change in the Soviet Union, others have more sinister motives. Their one common trait? They're all just desperately trying to remain alive. • Co-written & directed by Armando Iannucci; co-written by David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows & Fabien Nury, based on the comic book by Fabien Nury & Thierry Robin; starring Jason Isaacs {as Georgy Zhukov}, Steve Buscemi {as Nikita Khrushchev}, Jeffrey Tambor {as Georgy Malenkov}, Michael Palin {as Vyacheslav Molotov}, Simon Russell Beale {as Lavrentiy Beria}, Adrian McLoughlin {as Joseph Stalin}, Gerald Lepkowski {as Leonid Brezhnev}, Paul Chahidi {as Nicolai Bulganin}, Paul Whitehouse {as Anastas Mikoyan}, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko, Rupert Friend, Richard Brake, Paddy Considine, Paul Ready, Diana Quick, Jonathan Aris, Nicholas Woodeson, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Justin Edwards, Tom Brooke, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Dermot Crowley, Karl Johnson, Jonny Phillips, Cara Horgan, Gumuliauskas Vaclovas, Andy Gathergood, Eva Sayer, Adam Shaw, June Watson, Nicholas Sidi, David Crow, Elaine Claxton, Eloise Henwood, Henry Helm, Daniel Booroff, Daniel Tuite, Jag Patel, Ewan Bailey, Sheng-Chien Tsai, Emilio Iannucci, Derek Barr, James Barriscale, Tim Steed, Ellen Evans, Cedric Tylleman, Matt Townsend, Daniel Fearn, Dardan Kolicaj, Ricky Gabbriellini, Gary Kiely, Attila G. Kerekes, Adam Ewan, Michael Ballard, Miroslav Zaruba, Steve Saunders, Glenn Doherty, Ashley Hudson, Kristopher Vick, Sternkiker François, Claire Ashton, Phil Deguara, Christopher Marsh, Yordan Krushkov, Robin George, Dean Williams, Alex Delescu, Jason Grangier, Zac Whitehead, Alan Mathis, Adam Sef, Daniel Tatarsky, Esmee Rowlinson
DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 8/2017 official trailer [2:27] at YouTube |
 | "Dersu Uzala" [Soviet Union 1975] Co-written & directed by Akira Kurosawa of Japan; based on the novel by Vladimir Arseniev; won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (a film of Russia) full credits from IMDb |
"Dr. Zhivago" [1965]
Blu-ray = B001TOCCRU
"The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, The CIA, and The Battle Over A Forbidden Book" []
by Petra Couvee & Peter Finn - Pantheon 9780307908001
 | "Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago" [2017] by Anna Pasternak Kindle Edition from Ecco Press/HarperCollins [1/2017] for $14.99 Ecco Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2017] for $14.63 |
"Exile In Buyukada" [indep 2000]
 | A little Russian history: A 72-minute visually-poetic documentary treatment of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s exiled years living in and near Constantinople, Türkiye (1929-33) • Directed by Turan Yavuz; narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, starring Viktor Sergachev & Isik Yenersu Pathfinder Home Ent. color DVD [10/2002] for $26.99 Pathfinder Home Ent. color VHS [10/2002] for $29.98 credits at IMDb |
"The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West In The Land of The Bolsheviks" [1924] by Lev Kuleshov
"Fall of The Romanov Dynasty" [1927]
culled by Esther Shub from pre-Soviet Russian newsreels gathered from Europe and America
"Hard To Be A God (Trudno Byt Bogom)" []
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Be_a_God
http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Be-God-Rediscovered-Classics-ebook/dp/B00K4JX2FM/
http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Be-God-Rediscovered-Classics/dp/1613748280/
http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Be-God-Arkadi-Strugatski/dp/087997141X/
"It Is Not Easy To Be A God" feature film [Germany Jan 1990]
("Es ist Nicht Leicht ein Gott zu Sein")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Be_a_God_(1989_film)
"Hard To Be A God" feature film [Russia Feb 2014]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Be_a_God_(2013_film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2328813/
http://www.kinolorber.com/film.php?id=1918
When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left this extraordinary nearly-finished final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by the Strugatsky brothers; the project began percolating in German's consciousness in the mid-1960s, and actively consumed him for the last 15 years of his life; happily, he brought the film close enough to completion for his wife & son to apply the finishing touches.
"Hipsters (Stilyagi)" musical feature
[Russia Dec 2008, USA Oct 2011]
 | A candy-colored musical set in 1955 Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Communist youth group member Mels falls in love with Polly, a part of the Hipsters crowd, and he soon becomes immersed in the Hipster scene of swing dancing, smoky nightclubs, hot jazz, pompadours, and poodle skirts. In Russian with English subtitles. Co-produced, co-written & directed by Valeriy Todorovskiy; starring Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Igor Voynarovskiy & Ekaterina Vilkova; won 4 Russian Golden Eagle Awards, won 4 Russian Nika Awards
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"The House On Trubnaya (Dom na Trubnoy)" [Russia 1928]
by Boris Barnet; often described as the best Soviet silent comedy ever
"Inside The Russian Info War Machine" documentary [Java Films France 2018?]
French title "Guerre de L'Information au Coeur de La Machine Russe"
 | 90-minute documentary with English subtitles; French TV journalist Moreira investigates how Russia manipulates public opinion, undermines democratic governments, and attempts to alter world events. The public face of foreign policy is the state news channels: Sputnik and Russia Today; but working in the shadows is the hidden part of foreign policy: the hackers and trolls pushing the Russian agenda, 'a message tainted with illegitimacy'
Directed by Paul Moreira DVD/Blu-ray not available • Amazon Instant Video [2018] not yet available not yet listed at IMDb • official movie site watch 3/2018 official trailer [2:59] at YouTube |
"Kosmicheskii Reis" [Mosfilm Jan 1936]
also known as "Cosmic Voyage", "Space Voyage", and "Cosmic Journey"
 | Silent film with Russian/Cyrillic text & intertitles, English subtitles; a scientist becomes impatient with the bureaucrats at the Russian Space Institute, so he builds his own rocket spacecraft and takes a woman scientist and a boy with him to the Moon . . . • Directed by Vasily Zhuravlyov; written by Aleksandr Filimonov, based on a novel by scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (who is credited as 'technical advisor/consultant'); starring Sergey Komarov, K. Moskalenko, Vassili Gaponenko, Nikolay Feoktistov, Vasili Kovrigin, Andrey Karasyov, Sergei Stolyarov
Video Dimensions b&w DVD [9/2011] for $15.95 full credits at IMDb • watch full movie [1/2016 upload; 1:05:14] online at YouTube |
"Kravchenko’s Trial" [2008] /tt1536458/
52-minute documentary on the Paris, France libel trial of January 1949 by Soviet defector
Victor Kravchenko versus the French communist weekly Les Lettres Françaises
"The Last Command" silent feature [Paramount Pictures Jan 1928] /tt0019071/
co-written & directed by Josef von Sternberg; starring Emil Jannings (won first Oscar for Best Actor), Evelyn Brent, William Powell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Command_(1928_film)
"Man With The Movie Camera" silent feature
[Soviet Union Jan 1929, USA May 1929]
 | "a dazzling and sophisticated ... experiment in the language of pure cinema" Written & directed by Dziga Vertov; 2002 DVD has modern musical score by the Alloy Orchestra; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005) Region 1 Blu-ray not available Kino Lorber Films b&w silent DVD [5/2003] for $19.05 Image Ent. b&w silent DVD [2/2002] out of prodn/used Kino Video b&w silent VHS [11/2001] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
 | "The Man With The Movie Camera: The Film Companion" [2001] by Graham Roberts I.B. Tauris 8½x5¼ pb [3/2001] for $24.50 |
"Maugli / Adventures of Mowgli" animated feature [Soviet Union 1967]
 | First release in five parts, roughly 20 minutes each; 1973 re-edited feature release runs 96 minutes; the English-language version was released direct-to-video in 1996, shortened to 80 minutes • Directed by Roman Davydov; written by Leonid Belokurov, based on Kipling's "The Jungle Books" stories; English narration by Charlton Heston; English version featuring voices of Ian James Corlett {as Mowgli}, Don Brown, Dana Delany, Campbell Lane, Scott McNeil, Pauline Newstone, Cathy Weseluck, Alec Willows, Sam Elliott; Russian version featuring voices of Lyudmila Kasatkina, Yuriy Khrzhanovskiy, Lev Lyubetskiy, Stepan Bubnov, Sergey Martinson, Aleksandr Nazarov, Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, Anatoliy Papanov, Yuriy Puzyryov, Valerie Milenka Repnau, Vladimir Ushakov, Oleg Vidov •
full credits at IMDb •
movie entry at Wikipedia
80-minute V.E.I. English-language color DVD [6/2007] for $12.00 Mosfilm Russian-language all-region color Blu-ray [undated] for $14.99 watch full Cyrillic/Russian movie [4/2011 upload; 1:35:37] online at YouTube |
"Meri Poppins, Do Svidaniya (Mary Poppins, Goodbye)" 2-part TV musical
[Mosfilm Russia Jan 1984]
 | 2-part color musical TV movie from Mosfilm in Russia; a London banker trying to raise two children hires a new nanny . . . • Directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze; written by Vladimir Valutskiy, loosely based on 'Mary Poppins' stories by P.L. Travers; starring Natalya Andreychenko, Albert Filozov, Lembit Ulfsak, Oleg Tabakov, Larisa Udovichenko, Filipp Rukavishnikov, Anna Plisetskaya, Irina Skobtseva, Zinoviy Gerdt, Marina Nudga, Gali Abaydulov, Semyon Sokolovsky, Igor Yasulovich, Ilya Rutberg
Russian-language DVD-R with English subtitles [2014] for $11.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Mirror" [Russia]
http://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Margarita-Terekhova/dp/6305744114/
"Miss Mend" silent serial [Russia Oct 1926]
  | Described as a serial, this silent film was released in three parts, running over 4 hours. The DVD is digitally-restored, with English titles, and new music by Robert Israel; extras on DVD include a booklet, a 25-minute docufilm & a 15-minute docufilm on the music recording sessions • An attempt to merge fast-paced Hollywood-style action with Soviet political ideology & German expresionism; based on a 1923 pulp novel by Marietta Shaginian. A secretary at an American-owned factory gets involved in a workers' strike, three newspaper men arrive to cover the events, and the four team up to prevent the nasty capitalist owner from unleashing germ warfare against Russia. • Co-written & co-directed by Fyodor Otsep & Boris Barnet; co-written by Vasili Sakhnovsky; starring Natalya Glan, Boris Barnet, Igor Ilyinsky, Vladimir Fogel, Sergei Komarov, Ivan Koval-Samborsky & Natalya Rozenel
Flicker Alley b&w DVD [12/2009] 2 disks for $39.95 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
more info on movie serials on Magic Lantern's Silent & Sound Movie Serials Page
"Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears" (Moskva Slezam ne Verit)
[Soviet Union 1980]
by Vladimir Menshov; won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
http://www.amazon.com/Moscow-Does-Not-Believe-Tears/dp/B00019G4TQ/
"Mother, 1905"
[Russia Oct 1926, USA May 1934 silent]
 | "Stunning!" per David Denby, New Yorker Magazine film critic Film version of Gorky's classic novel of the failed 1905 Revolution; film restored in 1968, with new music. The title character's son joins a workers' strike, and her brutish husband joins the loyalist group arming to stop any such revolutionary activity; over time, the mother becomes more aware of the reasons for the workers' stand against the oppressors and joins the revolution herself. Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin; written by Nathan Zarkhi, based on the 1907 novel by Maxim Gorky [1868-1936]; starring Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov & Anna Zemtsova Image Ent. b&w DVD [1/99] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"My Perestroika" documentary film
[Red Square Prodns festival circuit Jan 2010]
 | The filmmaker documents five of her friends who were raised inside the Soviet Union before the changes of 1990-91, and how each adjusted to post-Soviet reality • Co-produced & directed by Robin Hessman Docurama color DVD [5/2012] for $19.15 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"Old and New (Staroye i Novoye)" [May 1929]
Sergei M. Eisenstein's seldom seen last silent feature
"One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich"
[Norsk Film/Horizon Intl. May 1971]
based on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1962 novella • full credits from IMDb
"Our New President"
 | 'A film composed almost completely of clips from the modern Russian propaganda machine – it is terrifying' • Maxim Pozdorovkin, the film’s Russian-American director, said "My idea was to make a movie based entirely on actual footage without a single true statement in it." • Co-produced by Joe Bender & Laura Poitras; co-produced, written & directed by Maxim Pozdorovkin; featuring Donald Trump & Vladimir Putin
12-minute short version [Sundance Festival Jan 2017] credits at IMDb • watch 4/2017 short version [12:04] online at YouTube 77-minute feature-length version [Third Party/Field of Vision 2018?] 
credits at IMDb • official movie website |
"Prisoner of The Mountains" [Russia 1996]
Sergei Bodrov BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Private Life" [Soviet Union 1982]
Yuli Raizman BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer" [Goldcrest Films/Home Box Office June 2013]
 | Documentary film in Russian with English subtitles; members of the feminist punk band-protest group Pussy Riot staged a 40-second 'punk prayer' inside Russia's official cathedral; they were arrested, charged with 'religious hatred', and held without bail until their show trial, clearly demonstrating the lack of basic freedoms inside Putin's Russia Co-produced & co-directed by Mike Lerner & Maxim Pozdorovkin; starring band members Mariya 'Masha' Alyokhina, Yekaterina 'Katia' Samutsevich & Nadezhda 'Nadia' Tolokonnikova; featuring Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev {as Patriarch Kirill}, Andrey Tolokonnikov, Natalia Alyokhina, Stanislav Samutsevich, Pyotr Verzilov, Mark Feygin, Nikolai Polozov, Violetta Volkova, with archive footage of Madonna, Dmitry Medvedev, Yoko Ono & Vladimir Putin Docurama widescreen color DVD [2/2014] for $19.99 Amazon Instant Video [2014] rental $3.99, purchase $9.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Quiet Flows The Don" []
starring Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kiriyenko
http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Flows-Don-Pyotr-Glebov/dp/B000LV6OHQ/(DVD - 2007)
"Reds" [Paramount Dec 1981]
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A radical combination of historical drama and actual history. The interspersed interviews with then-still-living witnesses to the story of American journalist and Bolshevik activist John Reed [1887-1920] give a resonance beyond any previous film about the Russian revolutionary era. Truly an epic film • Produced & co-written & directed by and starring Warren Beatty; also starring Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson & Maureen Stapleton; filmed witnesses include Henry Miller & Will Durant; won Oscars for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actress; nominated for 9 more; won DGA, WGA, two BAFTA Awards Paramount color DVD [10/2006] for $14.99 Paramount color VHS [1/2002] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used BMG soundtrack CD [4/99] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
 | "Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed" [1975] by Robert A. Rosenstone Replica Books 9x6 hardcover [5/2001] out of print/used Random House hardcover [6/75] out of print/many used |
"The Russian Ark" [Russia]
http://www.amazon.com/Russian-Ark-Masterworks-Anna-Aleksakhina/dp/B00009NHAT/
"The Sacrifice (Offret/Victim)" [Sweden May 1986]
 | On the brink of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds that he must give something in return; filmed in Sweden (in Eastmancolor™) and is an homage to Ingmar Bergman [1918-2007] Written & directed by Andrei Tarkovsky; cinematography by Sven Nykvist; starring Erland Josephson, Susan Fleet-wood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sven Wollter, Valérie Mairesse, Filippa Franzén, Tommy Kjellqvist, Per Källman, Tommy Nordahl; English dubbing by Tintin Anderzon, Helena Brodin, Birgit Carlstén, Jane Friedmann, Martin Lindström, Jan-Olof Strandberg; won four awards at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival: Sven Nykvist for cinema-tography, FIPRESCI Prize, Grand Prize of the Jury, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and a nomination for the Palme d'Or; won BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Guldbagge Award for Best Film, and a tied Golden Spike Award at Valladolid Intl. Film Festival KinoLorber remastered widescreen color Blu-ray [7/2011] for $24.45 KinoLorber remastered widescreen color DVD [7/2011] 2 disks for $33.68 Kino Video letterboxed color DVD [3/2000] out of prodn/used with Tarkovsky docu full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 10/2017 official re-release trailer [1:52] online at YouTube watch full movie - in Swedish, no subtitles [11/2016 upload; 2:28:54] online at YouTube |
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Andrei Tarkovsky: A Photographic Chronicle of The Making of The Sacrifice" [2011] by Layla Alexander-Garrett Cygnnet 11x7½ hardcover [10/2011] out of print/used |
"Renegade Cut: The Sacrifice - Eternal Recurrence" webcast episode [Renegade Cut Media Nov 2017]
An analysis by Leon Thomas of Tarkovsky's "The Sacrifice" and how it relates to the beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, and Jesus Christ
credits at IMDb •
watch 11/2017 episode [10:31] online at YouTube
"Salt For Svanetia (Marili Svanets)" (1930)
by Mikhail Kalatozov; explores the Ushkul tribe in the Caucasus region, still living in a stone-age culture
"Stalin By Those Who Knew Him" [1989]
http://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Those-Who-Knew-Him/dp/B000VS6Q54/
"State Funeral" documentary [Atoms & Void 2019]
 | 2-hour 15-minute color/b&w found-footage documentary that chronicles the Soviet Union’s national mourning and the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral; film serves to examine the enigma of the personality cult • Co-produced by Maria Baker-Choustova; co-produced, written & directed by Sergey Loznitsa; researcher Vladilen Vierny; with archive footage of Lavrenti Beria, Georgi Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov & Joseph Stalin
DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • official movie website watch 9/2019 official music-only trailer [2:13] online at YouTube |
"Stride, Soviet (Shagay, Sovet!)" [1926]
Dziga Vertov's highly experimental documentary
"Strike" aka "Stachka" [Soviet/Goskino April 1925 silent]
| During Tsarist rule, workers at a railroad locomotive factory go on strike; as time drags on, excitement is replaced by hunger, management brings in provocateurs & police, and the military arrives to liquidate the workers • Co-written & directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein [1898-1948]; co-written & assistant-directed by & starring Grigori Aleksandrov
Kino Intl. remastered b&w silent Blu-ray [8/2011] for $21.99 Kino Intl. remastered b&w silent DVD [8/2011] for $18.99 Triad Prodns 'enhanced' b&w silent DVD-R [12/2008] for $13.95 Image Ent. b&w silent DVD [7/2000] out of prodn/used Kino Video b&w VHS [6/2000] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Tchaikovsky" [Soviet Union 1971]
Igor Talankin BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"October (Ten Days That Shook The World)" [1928] /tt0018217/
"Ten Days That Shook The World" [1967 TV] /tt1118510/
"The Thief" [Russia 1997] Pavel Chukhraj BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Turksib" [Vostokkino Russia Oct 1929]
 | 'Turksib' is a common term for the 2,000-mile {3,200km}-long broad-gauge Turkestan-Siberia Railway, built between 1926 and 1931; filmmaker Viktor Alexandrovitsh Turin resisted the standard character-driven narrative and made a grand, elemental drama centered around the construction of the railway from the arid plains of Turkestan to the icy Siberian mountains and the struggle for survival in Asia; released in Russia and U.K. at 75 minutes length, in USA at 57 minutes • Directed by Viktor A. Turin & AD Yakov Aron; written by Yakov Aron, Aleksandr Macheret, Viktor Shklovsky & Viktor A. Turin • bare credits at IMDb
the 'dual format' DVD/Blu-ray package seems to be playable on both Region A/1 and Region B/2 machines; it contains a newly-remastered 1930 British version by John Grierson, plus several short British films showing the influence of "Turksib" British Film Institute b&w DVD/Blu-ray combo [6/2013] for $16.99 |
"12" [Russia 2007] Nikita Mikhalkov BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Vinni-Pukh" aka "Winnie Pooh" [Soyuzmultfilm 1969]
11-minute Russian-language animated film; co-written & directed by Fyodor Khitruk; co-written by Boris Zakhoder;
narrated by Vladimir Osenev; voices of Evgeniy Leonov & Iya Savvina • credits at IMDb
watch cartoon with English subtitles [9:59] online at YouTube
"Winnie Pooh Goes Visiting" [Soyuzmultfilm 1971]
Russian title "Vinni-Pukh Idyot v Gosti"; 10-minute Russian-language animated film; co-written & directed by Fyodor Khitruk; co-written by Boris Zakhoder;
narrated by Vladimir Osenev; voices of Evgeniy Leonov, Iya Savvina & Anatoliy Shchukin •
credits at IMDb
watch cartoon with English subtitles [9:56] online at YouTube
"Winnie Pooh and A Busy Day" (1972)
Russian title "Vinni-Pukh i den Zabot"; 21-minute Russian-language animated film; co-written & co-directed by Fyodor Khitruk; co-directed by Gennadiy Sokolskiy;
co-written by Boris Zakhoder; narrated by Vladimir Osenev; voices of Evgeniy Leonov, Iya Savvina, Erast Garin & Zinaida Naryshkina •
credits at IMDb
watch cartoon [20:17] online at YouTube
Both of these online videos are Russian-language only, with no subtitles.
Long version one includes honey tree, visiting [at 10:21], and busy day [at 20:19]
watch full movie one [39:42] online at YouTube
Long version two includes honey tree, visiting [at 10:36], busy day [at 21:06], non-Pooh circus [at 41:28], non-Pooh 'Toptyzhka' [at 1:02]
watch full movie two [1:11:21] online at YouTube
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"Soyuzmultfilm Cartoon Collection on Blu-ray" [Soviet Union 1965-1972] five Russian-language short films totalling 74 minutes: "Toptyzhka" [1964]; "Boniface's Vocation (Kanikuly Bonifacija" [1965]; "Winnie Pooh (Vinni-Pukh)" [1969]; "Winnie Pooh Goes Visiting (Vinni-Pukh Idyot v Gosti)" [1971]; "Winnie Pooh and A Busy Day (Vinni-Pukh i den Zabot" [1972] • Lizard Russian-language Blu-ray [undated] import / SOLD OUT |
for books and more non-Disney and Disney films, visit
Spirit of America Bookstore's "Winnie The Pooh" Books & Movies Page
"The Volga Boatman" [1926 silent feature]
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Elinor Fair Boyd, Victor Varconi & William Boyd
"War and Peace" aka "Voyna i Mir" [Soviet Union 1968]
by Sergei Bondarchuk; won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
"Wartime Romance" [Soviet Union 1984]
Pyotr Todorovsky BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"We Live Again" [Sam Goldwyn/United Artists Nov 1934]
 | A Russian nobleman realizes that a woman being sentenced to Siberia is the servant girl that he wooed and abandoned in their youth • Directed by Rouben Mamoulian; script co-written by Preston Sturges, based on Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel "Resurrection"; lovely cinematography by Gregg Toland; starring Fredric March, Anna Sten, Jane Baxter, C. Aubrey Smith, Sam Jaffe, Ethel Griffies, Gwendolyn Logan, Jessie Ralph, Leonid Kinskey, Dale Fuller, Morgan Wallace & Crauford Kent
M.G.M. b&w DVD [3/2005] for $12.99 full credits from IMDb |
"White Bim Black Ear" [Soviet Union 1978]
Stanislav Rostotsky BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
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