Russian Cinema

Is anyone interested in talking about Russian Cinema in general?
If you are, which Russian movies have you seen, liked?
My favorites:
Sci-Fi: Solaris, Stalker, Kin-Dza-Dza, Night Watch,
Professor Dowell's Testament, Amphibian Man, Wizards

War: At Dawns it's Quiet Here, Ballad of a Soldier,
Alexander Nevsky, Prisoner of the Mountains,
Father of The Soldier, 100 Days Before The Command

Action: White Sun of the Desert, Elusive Avengers

Mystery: Ten Little Indians, Meeting place can’t be changed

Horror: Viy or Spirit of Evil

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

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

Romance: Ordinary miracle, Irony of fate or with light steam!,
A Railway Station for Two, Moscow does not Belive in Tears,
Business romance, I am Walking Along Moscow, Truffaldino from Bergamo

History: Andrei Rublev, The Battleship Potemkin,
War and Peace, Ivan the Terrible, October, Russian Ark,
Strike, Cold Summer of 1953, Tchaikovsky

[Oggy]

Just got Nigh****ch on DVD, because had heard so much about it, was a little disappointed I must say with it, not as kool as I thought it was going to be.

[scott barden]

Re: Russian Cinema

Hi I to Love Russian Cinema

You appear to have seen alot of films?

Ive seen about 4 of the Tarkovsky films, 2 paradjanov, all of eisensteins, 3 dovshenko, 2 pudovkin, and 2 klimov and several others...including vertov, ballad of a soldier and the cranes are flying

My favourites are Dovshenko's Earth, Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky and Elim Klimov's agonia and Klimov's Come and See, a very harrowing account of world war 11, based partly on Tarkovsky,s Ivan's Childhood and the khatyn story by Ales Adamovitch..

Im at presnt looking for an puppet animation that maybe Russian or Japanese and is based on the lieutenant Kije story wit kije music by Prokofiev

[rossobantam]

Re: Russian Cinema

a few years ago I watched (I think a Russian/Eastern bloc-related film)...lots of harrowing scenes ...German death squad , who themselves are massacred under a bridge after being captured by the Russkis. I seem to remember lots of shotsof a little boy soldier wadndering throught the forests etc

anyone?

[scott barden]

Re: Russian Cinema

I think it will be the film come and see by Elim Klimov, I mention it in my russian blurb a couple of weeks ago..

it came out in 1985 and was shown on channel 4 I think around 1994 or 5 at a time when foriegn films were more common on tv..

it is called idi smotri or something like it .. you will find alot of it on u-tube and it also available on dvd

ta scott

[rossobantam]

Re: Russian Cinema

thanks for that Scott...I've never seen it again since!