What's your favorite Soviet era movie?

It would be nice to see that Circus film, it sounds good.

REDS. I'ts a damn good movie about this journalist who runs away with her boyfriend, to see lenin in the October Revolution.

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Strike (or Stachka) by sergei eisenstein

Agreed.

Also -

Ivan Groznyy I (Eisenstein)

Circus (Grigori Aleksandrov)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov)

Aside from Eisenstein's 1920s avant-garde work, most in the West are not familiar with Russian cinema because very few Russian films have been distributed in the West. Most in the West do not know, for example, that there are no less than ten feature films about V.I. Lenin by the directors Yutkevich, Romm, Donskoi, Raizman, and others.

These are the best Russian films:
The Youth of Maksim
The Return of Maksim
The Vyborg Side
Lenin in Poland
Stories About Lenin
Life of Klim Samgin
Quiet Flows the Don
Young Guard
Shchors
Chapaev
By the Bluest of Seas
Communist
Minin and Pozharsky
Hostile Whirlwinds
Yakov Sverdlov

Comrade I., Devyataya Rota is a great lie about USSR, soviet army and Afganistan war.

My favourite soviet film is "Beloye solntse pustyni" (White sun of the desert)
It's the firts and the best soviet "Eastern" (some kind of american "western" films)

You can read more here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066565/

Other great Russian films are:

Komsomolsk
Rich Bride
Man With a Gun
Peter the First
The Great Citizen
Maxim Gorky trilogy: Childhood of Maxim Gorky, My Universities, My Apprecenticeships
Iron Stream
Pavel Korchagin

I love this movie, but it has been edited and watered down several times for the "American" & "British" markets! I also have the "English" versions on DVD.

Planeta Bur

Text Below Copied From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Prehistoric_Planet

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is a 1965 science fiction film directed by Curtis Harrington. The film is actually a American adapted and edited version of the Russian science fiction movie Planeta Bur directed by Pavel Klushantsev, with Curtis Harrington filming extra scenes featuring Basil Rathbone and American actors for the US/English speaking market.

It is 2020 and the Moon has been colonised. After travelling 200,000,000 miles, the first group of men land on Venus, a prehistoric world. The crew are attacked by various monsters, plants, etc.

While Harrington considered Queen of Blood, another such edit, enough his film to keep his name on it, he was here credited as "John Sebastian", in homage to Johann Sebastian Bach.

This edit of the film forms the basis of another edit of Planeta Bur, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.

More:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Prehistoric_Planet

Free Down-Load of Movie:http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=VoyagetothePrehistoricPlanet

Text Below Copied From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Planet_of_Prehistoric_Women

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women is a 1968 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The film is an adapted version of Curtis Harrington's Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, which in turn is adapted from the Russian 1962 feature Planeta Bur by Pavel Klushantsev. No footage from Planeta Bur appears in Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women that did not appear in Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, and the dubbing is the same.

In the United States, this film is considered public domain and can be downloaded from the Internet Archive by following this link:

http://www.archive.org/details/VoyagetothePlanetofPrehistoricWomen

More:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Planet_of_Prehistoric_Women

The Russian Language Page For Planeta Bur:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8C_(%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC)

I think I watched the original. Good movie.

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I think I watched the original. Good movie.

I have the two English language versions. They both use much of the same footage, with slightly altered story lines. The dubbing is quite obvious, like most foreign language movies. They are both easy to find in the U.S. & Canada.

I don't know if it truly qualifies as a movie since it is not a full-length feature film, but I'm rather fond of Bremenskie Muzykanty.

It just strikes me as the sort of thing I would have been raised on had I been born in another place.

This movie was not made in the U.S.S.R., but it was made in East Germany, during the Soviet Era, and it is good Science-Fiction. I also got the DVD, in a discount box set with other Cult Classics!. The Soviet Union & the Eastern Bloc Countries were on top of their game with great Science-Fiction, in the Sixties!

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First Spaceship on Venus

Synopsis

Originally released in East Germany as Der Schweigende Stern ("The Silent Star") and in Poland as Milczaca Gwiazda, First Spaceship on Venus was partially intended as an anti-nuclear tract. In 1985, a strange, extraterrestrial spool is discovered, leading to a manned expedition to Venus. The multinational crew includes American Brinkman (Gunther Simon), African Talua (Juliusz Ongewe), and Japanese Sumiko Ogimura (Tani). After several special-effects setpieces (and reams of dogmatic dialogue later), the crew lands on Venus, only to discover that the planet's population was wiped out by a nuclear error. Some of the crew members die horrifically, and the surviving members of the expedition return to earth with a warning for all mankind. [1]

InformationThe film was based on a novel by noted Eastern Bloc sci-fi novelist Stanislaw Lem. [2]

Full Article:http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/First_Spaceship_on_Venus

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I don't know if it truly qualifies as a movie since it is not a full-length feature film, but I'm rather fond of Bremenskie Muzykanty.

That is a cool little film. I just got finished watching it! Thanks for the link!

Sluzhili dva tovarishcha

One of the best films abot revolition and Civil War in Russia, IMO

[quote=IMDB]The date is 1920, when the White armies were finally defeated and driven out by Bolsheviks. The ultimate battle took place in Crimea, a small peninsula in the South Russia. We can see the battle from different points of view. Four central actors are astonishing. Yankovski, as a intellectual who fights for the Revolution but cannot blindly believe in its ideology; Bykov, playing a real Red commissary, naive as a child, cruel and enthusiastic; Vysotski, a White officer, disillusioned and sardonic; Savvina, a White nurse, patriot of Russia and of 'White cause'. Many episodes will stay in your memory forever, as, for example, the White officers who enter the sea, preferring death to giving up. The movie is enlightened by a wonderful sense of humor - sometimes simple and robust, when coming from Red soldiers, sometimes elegant and melancholic with the noble officers. [/quote]

I love westerns, but I have never had the chance to see any "Red" or "Eastern Bloc" Soviet-Era Westerns.

This one looks very interesting!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Joe

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058275/