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Aelita: Queen of Mars will always be a favorite of mine. In fairness I think the book is way better (but when is that ever not the case?) but considering when it was made, not too long after the end of the civil war, it is really impressive technically (at least the parts set on Mars): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1bIhS-7G8 Also, want some nightmare fuel? Check out the necrorealist movement, what might be termed a surrealistic-horror indie genre that critiqued the social and economic stagnation of the Brezhnev era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWyw0qqziFs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wA7XgL03q8 Also, I'm hoping this thread can help me. Maybe 10 years or so ago, I saw a movie from what was either the late 1920s or early 1930s, about a single woman in Moscow who ends up in a relationship with two men, has an abortion, and ends up leaving her husband to work on her own. It was basically an early Stalinist era feminist film endorsing a woman's right to choose, to live on her own, to have casual relationships, etc. It fascinated me and I really wish I could remember the title of it.
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Chairman Capone posted:In fairness I think the book is way better (but when is that ever not the case?) Solaris. 
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For me, the book and each movie version of Solaris are different enough (not just in plot but themes and characterizations and even general topics) that it's hard for me to directly say that one is better than the other. Although I'd definitely put the Soderburgh version lowest, it was actually far better than I was expecting. On the topic of Lem, wasn't The Futurological Congress supposed to be being made into a movie?
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Chairman Capone posted:Also, I'm hoping this thread can help me. Maybe 10 years or so ago, I saw a movie from what was either the late 1920s or early 1930s, about a single woman in Moscow who ends up in a relationship with two men, has an abortion, and ends up leaving her husband to work on her own. It was basically an early Stalinist era feminist film endorsing a woman's right to choose, to live on her own, to have casual relationships, etc. It fascinated me and I really wish I could remember the title of it. Bed and Sofa? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrG3FA2lmiI
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That's it! Thanks!
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vivisectvnv posted:Oh wow, Idi e Smotri is also on the Mosfilm channel. That's an absolute must see USSR classic. Wait, is it? I thought it was taken down. Am I stupid, or can I just not find it?
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ClydeUmney posted:Wait, is it? I thought it was taken down. Am I stupid, or can I just not find it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDq9fL--Avw
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On a brighter note, here's a hilarious cartoon about Sherlock Holmes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXchjGTSxXQ
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Awesome - thank you so much!
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time for gentle thread necromancy. today i'll tell you about very heavy and morbid movie about andrey rublev - the great 15th-century russian icon painter. the movie consists of seven chapters that tells their own story of medieval russia and their people. you not gonna be entertained by this movie, so if you decided to chill behind the screen, this is a wrong pick. anyone who seen "red beard" by akira kurosawa will understand me. this movie to you would be more like a journey into the world that american culture never experienced. it was made in 1966 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PAhbcy8mP4 (subs included)
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Good stuff OP. I cannot recommend Jan Svankmejer enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7lJTfG65Fk - Food https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrHDK6GZQHQ - Jabberwocky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amkByZyFl9I - Alice He's a prolific surrealist Czech stop-motion animator that likes to dabble with Freud a bit (see his version of Alice in Wonderland, Alice)
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Aydjile posted:time for gentle thread necromancy. The casting of the bell, it's amazing. This is early Tarkovsky as well, right?
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It was his second feature film, and it had the respect of everyone but Goskino, meaning the state completely screwed anyone out of ever getting to see it for a long time because it was the furthest thing from socialist realism.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:It was his second feature film, and it had the respect of everyone but Goskino, meaning the state completely screwed anyone out of ever getting to see it for a long time because it was the furthest thing from socialist realism. Sure, and honestly it seems a bit open about showing how arbitrary figures of authority are in cracking down. The village joker that just gets randomly chosen then knocked out and taken away.
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For some non-Russian but Soviet-era examples, Georgian film has some really striking imagery, and I really love Tree of Desire/The Wishing Tree which tells a simple but tragic story really well.
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another movie worth mentioning is "generation P". it was made several years ago and don't really fit in thread's boundaries. but since i don't see a reason to constrict myself with boundaries; i'll tell you about it anyway. and because i believe its the best movie russia made in the last decade and its worth to mention it, at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3KGQg9klc
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Interesting thread! I can't wait to watch the films here. Do DEFA films count? (Films made by the East German state film corporation.) Admittedly, I've only watched one DEFA film so far, but I'm interested to see more. DEFA westerns, which feature Native Americans as the protagonists and cowboys as the villains, and DEFA musicals in particular sound very interesting. Megazver posted:On a brighter note, here's a hilarious cartoon about Sherlock Holmes: Along similar lines, Russia apparently loved Sherlock Holmes. I watched a good deal of Sherlock Holmes adaptations a few years ago, and I absolutely loved Russian Sherlock Holmes. Beautiful scenery and settings (shot in Latvia mostly, I believe), and the stories, although changed a bit, remained really quite true to the originals in spirit. Here's The Master Blackmailer, their version of Charles Augustus Milverton, which is probably one of my favourite Holmes stories.
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The Cranes are Flying is an excellent film and is easily accessible as it is on Criterion. I have no idea how the director came up with his camera work, was pot a big thing in the USSR?
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Here are films of my childhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charodei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Aspera_Ad_Astra_(film)
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