Current Events > wut the soviet actually produce some good movies

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So i discovered a major soviet ( now russian ) film studio mosfilm uploaded tons of their old soviet era movies for free on youtube ,( yay communism )

I have watched 2 so far and they are pretty good. White sun of the desert a war movie take place in the desert around caspian sea.

Solaris a sci fi movie about a sentient planet and humanity's contact and trying to understand it. Really well written, very good.
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Solaris is one of the greatest films of all time
Tarkovksy is one of the greats

and yes the soviet union had numerous great films

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Link to Solaris?
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Paper_Okami posted...

and yes the soviet union had numerous great films

Which is honestly surprising since every film was supposed to be a propaganda piece.
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Crazyman93 posted...

Paper_Okami posted...

and yes the soviet union had numerous great films

Which is honestly surprising since every film was supposed to be a propaganda piece.

i don't find them too "propaganda-ish" too much. especially solaris because i don't think even the soviet is mentioned. the characters have more western names too.
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any more good one i should watch? i am thinking of Stalker, aka roadside picnic adaptation
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Stalker is great too

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part 1 from mosfilm channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-4KydP92ss" data-time="

part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXa6XpaxBS0" data-time="

@Vol2tex
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apolloooo posted...

part 1 from mosfilm channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-4KydP92ss" data-time="

part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXa6XpaxBS0" data-time="

@Vol2tex

Thanks but they still show as not available.
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Vol2tex posted...

apolloooo posted...

part 1 from mosfilm channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-4KydP92ss" data-time="

part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXa6XpaxBS0" data-time="

@Vol2tex

Thanks but they still show as not available.

aw
it's region locked maybe?

try to change the region in your youtube?

@Vol2tex
try opening it on a new youtube tab instead of the gamefaqs embed one. i tried clicking the embed video, it dont work. opening in the youtube page works
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The USSR did some amazing movies, yeah. Granted, a lot of the major artists butted heads with the party line, and...inevitably lost, but that those movies are so good speaks volumes about their maker's' resilience.

I recommend looking into some of the silent movies. Russia was pretty much making the best movies in the world in the late 20s, and everyone else knew it, even though industries and governments prevented their commercial distribution. I dunno if Mosfilm has uploaded any of those, though. Early Soviet talkies also have several gems among them, and pre-Soviet cinema was also a contender in the early days of movies.

Beyond Russian movies, there are lots of fine Polish, Czech, Slovak (especially Czechoslovak) and Hungarian films. And I've heard good things about films from Georgia, too.
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Battleship Potemkin and The Man with the Movie Camera are classics

have yet to see any of the others

Strike and October, Mother etc are on my list though

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Paper_Okami posted...

Battleship Potemkin and The Man with the Movie Camera are classics

have yet to see any of the others

Strike and October, Mother etc are on my list though

thanks :>
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That time the Soviets paid Akira Kurosawa to make a film turned out pretty good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dersu_Uzala_(1975_film%29

Dersu Uzala is a great film yeah

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i hear war and peace was kino
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Questionmarktarius posted...

That time the Soviets paid Akira Kurosawa to make a film turned out pretty good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dersu_Uzala_(1975_film%29

looks great. add it to my backlog
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Paper_Okami posted...

Mother

was that one from ~2017 with jennifer lawrence a remake or something?
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Paper_Okami posted...

Battleship Potemkin and The Man with the Movie Camera are classics

have yet to see any of the others

Strike and October, Mother etc are on my list though

I would recommend the works of Vsevelod Pudovkin, Alexandr Dovzhenko (basically the Tarkovsky of silent Russian cinema), and more films by Dziga Vertov if you can find them. They and Eisenstein tend to be regarded as the four most significant Soviet silent filmmakers, though there are, naturally, several other notable filmmakers as well, probably just as good.
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yeah i've heard of all those dudes
just my watchlist has been absurdly large to for years

too many damn films


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