Soviet movies about the war

List of movies about the Second World War, the Great Patriotic War and other wars selected by visitors to our site: Бенефис. Людмила Гурченко, Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures, KGB Agents Also Fall in Love, The Music of Life, Good Luck!, Night Witches, Берега, Byelorussian Station, Winter Cherries 2, The Rooks.

In the top there are new films of 1991, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Genremusic
CountrySoviet Union

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Markimdb: 8.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, crime
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:35

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures" was a hit movie and became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySoviet Union, Chile

A Russian agent is sent to a mission in Chile as a punishment. While there, he continues his adventures in a massage parlor where he meets Paola - a young prostitute he falls in love with.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryHungary, Soviet Union

The Soviet-Hungarian film version of the biography of one of the most talented composers of our time, the classic of the Vienna operetta - Imre Kálmán, known for all his music for operettas "The Csárdás Princess", "Countess Maritza", "The Circus Princess", "The Violet of Montmartre", "Die Bajadere" and many others. The music of Imre Kálmán has no equal in operetta for its festivity, “elegance”, and the refinement of melodics and orchestration.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySoviet Union

A story of a young man Alexey who comes to Moscow from Siberia trying to get into one of the Moscow universities.

Markimdb: 7
Genremilitary
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:20

Film will be based on the female flying unit that fought in the Battle of Moscow. They were dubbed "Night Witches" by the frightened German soldiers because of the deadly stealth of their light planes.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy
CountrySoviet Union

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Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama
CountrySoviet Union

The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.

Markimdb: 5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:36

Olga, married to a reach American businessman, returns to Russia after six years.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, crime
CountrySoviet Union

Victor Grach and Leonid Osadchy are dangerous criminals. Considering himself a strong and independent person, who is allowed everything, Victor wants to see his younger brother Shurka as well. And he, obeying the authority of Victor, becomes an involuntary participant in serious crimes and, in the end, is in the dock. A sentence is not passed for a long time, because it is important for a judge to understand the degree of guilt of each of the brothers, to get to the bottom of the truth, to find out what turned ordinary guys into robbers and killers.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredocumentary
CountrySoviet Union
Duration00:54

An ethnographic treasure that documents with visual bravado the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountrySoviet Union

A tale based on a classic novel by Alexander Pushkin.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:24

A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless...

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime, music, history
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:01

Old scientist Bashkirtsev is very surprised to discover the possible contacts with other world...

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:15

The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The Fiddler", a student from Georgia) are stranded due to an accidental encounter with an alien teleportation device. The movie describes their long quest to find a way back home.

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: 7.6
Genrefantastic, drama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:19

Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native mining town and found themselves in 1949. It's a common knowledge that real miracles happen without technical devices: time comes miracle happens. They spend in 1949 only one day the next morning they found that it is the same day that was yesterday. All several months, they spent in the past, they spent in one and the same day: the 8th of May, Sunday, the day of heightened coal production. In the morning to the coal mine, in an hour an accident in a coalface, at 10 o'clock wire from the Ministry, after work reunion concerning the Stalins anniversary; robbing of pay desk, death of policeman Ryabenko, in the evening - volunteer Sunday work… and in the morning the same, and so for ever and ever Philosophic fiction, accompanied by music of group Nautilus Pompillius. After a novel of S.Rybasa of the same name.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:22

Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySoviet Union

The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:23

Inspired by Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, 8th grader Petya Kopeykin tries to prove everyone that bravery and honor still exist in today's world.

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Genreadventure
CountrySoviet Union

The film takes place during the pre-revolutionary years and the initial period of the Soviet regime. At a monastery shelter in one of Russia's western towns, orphan Yulka gives birth to a son from the shepherd Jerome. Matron of the shelter Pavlikha as directed by the father kills the newborn baby and disposes of the corpse in the Jewish Quarter. The Black Hundreds are spreading the rumor that the murder was committed by the Jews for ritual purposes. Mayhem arises which is supported by the authorities of the city. The church refuses to shelter Jews fleeing from the violent thugs.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy
CountrySoviet Union

Фильм создан в жанре музыкальной комедии по мотивам знаменитого юмористического романа О"Генри "Короли и капуста". Действие фильма разворачивается в условной стране "Анчурия", где каждый год выбирают нового президента. Так бы все и шло своим чередом в островной Анчурии, если бы не чемоданчик с сотнями тысяч долларов, вдруг обнаружившийся у местного брадобрея, и таинственный незнакомец, однажды выброшенный волной на анчурский берег.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, cartoon, short
CountrySoviet Union
Duration00:10

Animated short based on the story of the same name by Andrei Platonov.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, military, biography
CountrySoviet Union, Czechoslovakia

About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigade, goes the military way from Samara to Irkutsk.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, military
CountrySoviet Union
Duration03:21

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.

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: 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: 8.3
Genrecomedy, drama, military
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:27

Bogdan Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Bogdan always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, military
CountryItaly, France, Soviet Union
Duration01:47

At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, military, history
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:40

Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal Vaskov is stationed with a group of many young women in training.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
CountryItaly, Soviet Union
Duration02:08

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
Duration01:47

The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before their last flight, the crew discover that the target for the day is Dresden, a heavily-defended city that invariably causes many Allied casualties

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, military
CountryFrance
Duration01:46

Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, military
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:36

Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy's war-ravaged youth.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, military
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:27

The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, adventure, history
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:20

In the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:51

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:31

Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, military
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:37

The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory...

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, military
CountryHungary, Soviet Union

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other.

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