Is anyone interested in talking about Russian Cinema?
If you are, what are your favorite films? actors? directors?
My favorites:
about love: Ordinary miracle,
Irony of fate or with light steam!,
A Railway Station for Two, Moscow does not Belive in Tears,
A Cruel Romance, Business romance, I am Walking Along Moscow,
Wizards, Truffaldino from Bergamo

comedies: Ordinary miracle,
Prisoner of the Caucasus or Shurik's New Adventures,
The Diamond Arm, Ivan Vasilievich changes his occupation,
Pokrov Gates, The Very Same Munhgauzen, Kin-Dza-Dza,
Twelve Chairs, Hello I am your aunt!, Gentlemen of luck,
Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures

dramas: Solaris, Moscow does not Belive in Tears, The Mirror,
At Home Among Strangers - a Stranger Among his own,
The Star of Fascinating Happiness, Prisoner of the Mountains,
The Thief, The Lover

War: Alexander Nevsky, Ballad of a Soldier, Star,
And Dawns Are Quiet Here, Cranes are Flying,
War, Prisoner of the Mountains, Father of The Soldier,
100 Days Before The Command, Torpedo Bombers

Action: White Sun of the Desert,
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers

Horror: Viy or Spirit of Evil

This message has been edited. Last edited by: pgmatg,

the best russian film that i can recall is 'burnt by the sun', directed by mikhalov, who is wierdly doing a burnt by the sun 2 - literally that is how its titled, even in russian.

the film is a nice complement for any student of modern russian history, especially the period of stalin's repression. you can see this film and read babel's 'red cavalry' to see how the commies ate their own.

thx pgmtag for the lis of Russian movies, maybe you can add their original Russian naming (makes it easier to find)?

As for the best Russian movie I have ever seen, it must be STALKER by Andrei Tarkovski...this movie is also my number 1 movie of all time.

So much important life(intelectual, existential...) themes come out in this movie its overwhelming..and the way it has been shot is a masterpiece by itself.

Tarkovski is like a Reinessance artist closed in 1 form.

Well, I'll be cliched and cite Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, Ballad of a Soldier, The Cranes are Flying, My Name is Ivan and Dersu Uzala.

I'm not overly familiar with Russian cinema (some Tarkovsky, some Eisenstein)--but I just wanted to add Alexander Dovzhenko's "Earth". oh yeah--and Dziga Vertov's "Man with a Movie Camera"--now that's an amazing movie.

I was blown away Elem Klimov's COME AND SEE. I also liked Sergei Bodrov's PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS and Alexei Babanov's BROTHER.

I've been trying to watch some Russian movies recently, so far not very successful, LOL, but I'm getting there. I really want to see some of Andrey Tarkovski, I've never seen anything by him, but I really want to seeing as how his movies are considered probably the hight of Russian cinema.

From the movies that I have seen, I have to say my favorite is 2004 movie The Return (Vozvraschenie). Amazing film, simply brilliant. I also really like The Prisoner of the Mountain (Kavkazkiy Plennik), Russian Ark (Russki Kovcheg) and The Thief (Vor).

yes, i was raised on these!

my favorites are
office romance (slujebnii roman), irony of fate (s lehkim parom), all the shurik movies, the adventures of italians in russia (priklucheniya italianzov v rosiye), ivan the terrible changes his profession (ivan vasilievich menayet profesiyu), carnival night (karnavalnaya noch)
and starayi klyachi, not sure how to translate that.

i want to see moscow does not believe in tears (moskva ne veryet v slezi).