Soviet films about the beginning of the 20th century

List of the best Soviet films about the beginning of the 20th century according to the audience: Dersu Uzala, Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession, The Cranes Are Flying, Carnival Night, Flights in Dreams and in Reality, The Forty-First, The Garage, There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach, Man with a Movie Camera, It Can't Be!.

In the top there are new films of 1992, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 8.2
Genredrama, adventure, biography
CountrySoviet Union, Japan
Duration02:16

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:28

Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:37

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, family
CountryRussia, Soviet Union
Duration01:18

It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:26

On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:33

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:36

An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, crime
CountrySoviet Union, Russia, USA
Duration01:31

When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genredocumentary
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:08

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:40

The movie includes three diffirent skits, including different actors. The first skit is about a store owner who steals goods from himself. He is arrested and brought to court, to testify about a murder, while he thinks he is about to get busted for stealing. The second skit includes a cheating husband trying to survive in a love triangle. And the third skit includes a man trying to get married after seeing the bride only once in his life on a bus.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama
CountrySoviet Union

Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:15

During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime, a teenager’s errand to the village market for bread ends in a nightmarish confrontation with local police authorities. Sadistic shower room confrontations, unsanitary detention facilities and a tomb-like prison cell become classrooms on the horrors of the human soul. As his fellow captives are tortured, die or quietly lose their minds, the naive 13-year-old becomes an unwilling witness to starting lessons in honor, hatred, conscience and survival.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, military
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:30

The film tells about the fighting everyday life of the crew of self-propelled guns during the liberation of Right-Bank Ukraine. Junior Lieutenant Maleshkin, an unshooted graduate of the school, commands the crew of the self-propelled gun SU-100. All the subordinates of Maleshkin are older than him and much more experienced. The authority of the young commander is tested at every step, he quarrels, then reconciles with his crew. In addition, Maleshkin is very dissatisfied with the battery commander, he now and then threatens to remove the sluggish young officer from the command. In the crew of Maleshkin, various troubles constantly occur: either the driver will catch the commandant’s eyes in an untidy, grimy look, then a combat grenade with a dropped check will be discovered in the car, or a breakdown will occur just at the moment the regiment enters the march.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantasy, drama, family, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan, Soviet Union

A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she does not like, to look for the flowers in a cold forest, knowing the task will be impossible for her. The girl almost freezes to death in the forest, but she is rescued by the spirits of the Twelve Months, who create spring around her. The girl is able to deliver the bouquet to the queen, but others want a share of the reward.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:10

Various dwellers of the Russian forest: Leshiy (forest goblin), Vodyanoy (water spirit), Ovinni (barn spirit) Domovoy (house spirit), Anchutka (gremlin) and Rusalka (mermaid) meet at Baba Yaga's chicken-legged hut and receive an esteemed guest who appears from nowhere. They gather around one table to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new, that is until the guest grows bored with their antics and seeks fun elsewhere.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, family
CountrySoviet Union

Six years old boy decides to start school and going by himself to first grade instead of kindergarten.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, drama, western
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:24

Three stories based on O. Henry novels.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredrama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:15

Engineer Zilov, having woken up, finds the funeral wreath at his place – his friends' present. This rather symbolic joke makes him recollect the previous night as well as 2 last months...




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