10 outstanding Soviet films
Educational Program Cinema / / December 19, 2019
Thanks to Soviet film school there was a lot of movies that have become classics. This is a real work of art, they are still loved and revising. Layfhaker gathered high otsenonnye critics and audiences paintings, most vividly characterizing his era.
1. Battleship "Potemkin"
- USSR, 1925.
- Dramatic motion picture epic.
- Duration: 75 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,0.
The plot is a true historical event - the uprising on the battleship "Prince Potemkin" in 1905. The film begins with the fact that the sailors one of the battleships of the Black Sea Fleet, the indignant outrage officers refuse borsch, cooked from rotten meat. The vessel begins mutiny, during which manages sailors capture command. Odessa residents support the uprising, and this leads to a massacre in the city: the royal police shoot unarmed peaceful people.
Sergei Eisenstein's work was repeatedly named the best film of all time. And even now easy to understand why: the director used the unseen at the time special effects. In one of the episodes come alive even stone lions that horror of all events descend from their pedestals.
Another innovative technique - the emotional use of color. When the command captures armadillo ship lying over scarlet flag. This is the only color film frame Eisenstein painted by hand.
The scene being shot on the Potemkin stairs and especially the frame with a rolling stroller inspired many filmmakers and quoted many times in movies from "The Untouchables" by Brian De Palma to "The Simpsons."
2. Man with a Movie Camera
- USSR, 1929.
- Documentary.
- Duration: 66 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,4.
Abstract film shows one day in the life of the city of the 1920s. The viewer shows chaotic urban symphony composed of short documentary fragments.
Garde Dziga Vertov - one of the pioneers of documentaries - was opposed to feature films, and believed that cinema should transmit the truth of life. Principles reflected in the director's monumental work "The Man with a Movie Camera". It is a real encyclopedia of cinematic tricks: double exposure (overlay images on each other), Dutch angle ( "blockage horizon"), the still picture shooting in reflection and others.
For the sake of good shots Dziga Vertov and his brother Mikhail Kaufman seemed to be ready for anything. For example, they fearlessly went back on track to photograph passing train from below or climb to very high buildings without any insurance.
His contemporaries did not appreciate the screen manifest Vertov deserved. But in the 2014 Sight & Sound magazine named BritishCritics' 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time "Man with a Movie Camera" best documentary of all time.
3. Cranes are Flying
- USSR, 1957.
- War drama.
- Duration: 97 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,3.
In the center of the story poignant story of two lovers - Veronica and Boris, which separated forever war. When Boris goes to the front, the orphaned Veronica leads to marriage, Mark - a cousin of the hero.
Now the band director Mikhail Kalatozov and Sergey Urusevsky recognized as a masterpiece of the operator. Along with pictures of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky's "The Cranes Are Flying" is considered one of the symbols of Russian cinema.
But the fate of the film might have turned out quite differently if not for Claude Lelouch. More student next most important director of the French "new wave" just happened to be on the set of the tape as a cameraman assistant. Due Lelouch Relations picture came on Cannes Film festival and he received the main prize - the "Palme d'Or".
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4. The destiny of man
- USSR, 1959.
- War drama.
- Duration: 103 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,0.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, a native of Voronezh Andrey Sokolov goes to fight at the front. There's a man gets a concussion and is captured by the Nazis. Andrew is sent to a concentration camp, where the hero is constantly trying to escape. Finally he manages it, but when he returned home, he learns terrible news.
"The Fate of Man" on the eponymous story by Mikhail Sholokhov - one of the most important national military films. And it took the director-debutant - Sergei Bondarchuk, who had a long time to convince the management of "Mosfilm" of Sholokhov and the fact that he can be trusted with the job.
As a result, the film was received with enthusiasm and in the Soviet Union and the West. Outstanding Italian director Roberto Rossellini even called "the destiny of man," the most powerful of the fact that it was filmed about the war.
Innovation picture was that the prisoner camp was first shown as a positive character. As we know, the soldiers were captured, under any circumstances, be automatically declared a traitor. And the film privately rehabilitated huge category of people, which unfairly received.
5. I Am Twenty
- USSR, 1964.
- Drama.
- Duration: 175 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,9.
The film tells about the life of Sergei Zhuravlev and his friends Nicholas Fokine and Glory Kostikova. They are young, full of optimism and want to live, not to be ashamed.
Lyrical work Marlena Hutsieva "I Am Twenty" - one of the most important Soviet films 60s, ahead of his time. The picture came out at the beginning of the thaw and foreseen the topics that the next decade will excite Soviet filmmakers: the spiritual life of man and his inner world.
The famous scene of the golden youth parties get the most plausible at the Polytechnical Museum. After all, the director took it not professional actors, but the real intellectual elite of that time: the poet Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Robert Rozhdestvensky and Bella Akhmadulina, directors Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky, the singer Bulat Okudzhava.
But as so often happened in the Soviet Union, the film was held development hell and suffered greatly because of the censorship. Complexity was also in the fact that the perfectionist Hutsiev refused to cut the picture under the pressure of criticism. Instead, he retake the whole scene again. Tape still was released, but in a distorted form, and under the title "I am twenty years old." And the author's version of the audience saw only in 1988.
6. Once again about love
- USSR, 1968.
- Romantic drama.
- Duration: 92 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,3.
The film tells about a short novel two very lonely people - the physics of electron Evdokimov and Natasha's flight attendants. She openly and honestly fell in love with the hero, but he did not immediately imbued with a sense of return.
Film "Once again about love" was published in the Thaw years and shocked the audience with their courage and sincerity. Many thought the film was a novelty: for example, earlier in the Soviet cinema was heroines who could meet a young man in a restaurant and then spend the night with him.
Sounded in the film Song of sunbeams - metaphor elusive happiness - has gone to the people. It is often sung around campfires, in the children's and youth camps.
7. We'll Live Till Monday
- USSR, 1968.
- Drama.
- Duration: 106 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,0.
Ilya Melnikov Semenovich teaches history in a normal high school. Being intelligent and caring man, he strongly experiences on how to perfect the Soviet system of education. In addition, the hero is tired of working in an environment of unscrupulousness and hypocrisy prevailing among the teaching staff. Complicating the situation, and in love with a young teacher Melnikova Natalia S..
"We'll Live Till Monday" directed by Stanislav Rostotsky is considered one of the best films of the Thaw and the Soviet cinema as a whole. The image is going through an internal conflict of the teacher, played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov, admired educators, critics and ordinary viewers. After the first screening hall gave a standing ovation, and the director and the actors.
Tikhonov people's favorite, behind which at that time was the role of Prince Andrei in an epic Bondarchuk's "War and Peace", at first did not want to appear in Film about school. But then the actor is still lost to the explicit request the director, his great friend. This choice was unhappy with the script writer Georgi Polonsky: it is seen as Melnikov older and not so attractive artist. And then we come to the aid of make-up artists, which helped to wear out the young artist.
8. Mirror
- USSR, 1974.
- Autobiographical drama.
- Duration: 102 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,1.
The effect of this is very intimate and autobiographical film takes place in different layers of time: before, during and after the war. Memories and Dreams lyrical interspersed with recitation of Arseny Tarkovsky, the director's father.
Andrei Tarkovsky has repeatedly said that all of his work somehow built on personal experiences. The basis of "Mirrors" master laid own drama childhood - his father's withdrawal from the family. The film includes still many original details from the biography of the great director. For example, the episode of the fire, when the director was only five years old, he saw a neighbor's house caught fire.
True connoisseurs of cinema will remember picturesque buckwheat field, which has become the hallmark of the picture. Tarkovsky was crucial that the golf is growing buckwheat, like when he was a child. But for many years it only inoculated clover and oats. Directed rented this field, and the crew is at your own risk and it sowed buckwheat.
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9. Go and see
- USSR, 1985.
- War drama.
- Duration: 145 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,3.
In the center - two days in the life of an ordinary Belarusian teenager Flory, who, despite his mother's protests, leaving the partisans. Command is sent on a dangerous mission, leaving the camp and Floru Woman Glasha. After some time, the place shell. Having survived the bombing, miraculously survived teenagers returned to his native village Flory, but find that all the houses in it were empty.
Recent work by Elem Klimov critics almost unanimously called one of the most devastating, poignant and honest films about the war. "Come and See" significantly influenced the genre of military drama. It can be found even in such famous films as "Schindler's list"And" Saving Private Ryan. "
The director wanted to achieve the utmost sincerity, so insisted that the main character played by amateur actors, but simply a boy. Because of this, the film was shot in chronological order, despite the fact that such an approach makes the film production process is extremely lengthy and expensive. But thanks to this reception debutant Alex Kravchenko and other inexperienced performers were easier to play.
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10. Courier
- USSR, 1986.
- Comedy drama.
- Duration: 88 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,0.
Young Ivan comes to work a courier to the log. Before that, the hero failed exams to college, where, in general, and not sought. One day, performing another task, Ivan Kuznetsov met with the professor and his daughter Katey. Between young people tied sympathy, but Kuznetsova - a representative of the outgoing generation - careless and impudent Vanya terribly annoying.
The central idea of the film - conflict older and younger generations: first lived your life in vain, and the second in terms of restructuring are people without a future.
The opportunity to film their own story appeared in Karen Shakhnazarov immediately. In times of strict censorship director forbade even think about setting a mixed picture. Therefore, work on the film began only with the coming to power of Gorbachev.
The male lead were looking for a very long time. From hundreds of applicants Shakhnazarov eventually chose non-professional actor Fyodor Dunaevsky. And a young man had a lot to do with his screen image: Dunaevskii often quarreled with the director and argued with everyone on the set.
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Of course, it is impossible to fit into a single list of all the talented paintings created in the USSR. You can add it in the comments and advise readers to their favorite films.
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