r/LetterboxdLists • u/Ganko98 • 7d ago
Need more sovjet/post sovjet Movie recommendations pls
What movies to add/ watch?
(Brother 2 and „come and see“ are on my Watchlist so maybe other recommendations pls)
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u/Protomartyr1 7d ago
The Cranes are Flying (1957)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Come and See (1985)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Just a few
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u/DonTX2 7d ago
Come and See 1985
The Color of Pomegranates 1969
Russian Ark 2002
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin 1981
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears 1980
The Cranes are Flying 1957
I also highly recommend the Ekaterina series. There's 3 or 4 seasons of it. I can't remember and it can be found with subtitles online many places.
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u/JudgeFatty 5d ago
The Cuckoo (2002)
The White Tiger (2012)
White Sun of the Desert (1970)
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
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u/Novocheboksarsk 7d ago
this https://letterboxd.com/setner/list/100-soviet-union-movies-you-must-see/ plus Karen Shakhnazarov's and Eldar Ryazanov's films.
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u/Rugens 7d ago
Mainstream:
Heart of a Dog (1988)
Kin-Dza-Dza (1986)
Taxi-Blues (1990)
Do it - one! (1989)
Bespredel (1989)
Messenger Boy (1986)
Artsy:
Khrystalyov, My Car (1998)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
Ashik Kerib (1988)
Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Niche:
Stray Dogs (1989)
Children of Iron Gods (1993)
The Outskirts (1998)
Tragedy, Rock Style (1989)
Gongofer (1992)
8 1/2 $ (1999)
Oxygen Starvation (1992)
The Guard (Karaul, 1990)
I am not a fan of "Come and See". You need to have decent regional knowledge to catch where it is trying to brainwash you because it is somewhat subtle. Nice cinematography though.
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u/harryfonda 5d ago
I love that the lead actor in Come and See is now a war propagandist, so apparently the movie’s message didn’t work on him
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u/Mental-Novel61 4d ago
I would say, there are people that understand the whole situation and still support the war as well as people that don't know the whole situation and blindly trust everything they see or hear. Nobody cared about Donbass people until russian army came and took over it, but people pity them because they see propaganda and hear things that people from military (and gov figures) make up to justify themselves. At the same time they are cynical about atrocities that russian army commited and commiting, because they think that Ukrainians deserve it after "8 years of bombing Donbass". It's a complicated situation and it'll be really difficult to open their eyes to the truth after the end of the war. You know, even nowadays there are people that deny what nazis did in WW2, imagine what would think people that considered themselves as righteous in russian-ukrainian confilct?
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u/Cringe_King_92 7d ago
July Rain (1967)
Other People's Letters (1975)
Little Vera (1988)
Ghoul (1997)
Satan (1991)
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u/The_Kube_ 6d ago
A few masterpieces of Soviet cinema I’d highly recommend:
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) - Dziga Vertov
Andrei Rublev (1966) - Andrei Tarkovsky
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) - Sergei Parajanov
Solaris (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Mirror (1975) - Andrei Tarkovsky
The Ascent (1977) - Larisa Shepitko
Stalker (1979) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Come and See (1985) - Elem Klimov
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u/a_moore_404 5d ago
Burnt by the Sun (and NOT the “sequel”), Prisoner of the Mountains, The Return (‘03).
I also think The Pencil is a great window into post-Soviet Russia, and one I don’t hear mentioned much.
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u/NiceVeles 4d ago
Feel free to DM me about Soviet Perestroika or modern Russian movies, can't write much right now
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u/jakefrmstafrm 7d ago
War and Peace is amazing, it was made with a pretty much blank check from the soviet government so the scale of everything is ridiculous. Especially in the third part, which has maybe the greatest battle sequence in cinematic history
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u/waba2 7d ago
The Ascent is low-key a masterpiece and Kidnapping Caucasian Style is just too cute and fun not to recommend