⠀BEST RUSSIAN MOVIES U NEVER HEARED ABOUT👇🤯
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⠀☝️1. Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
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The Battleship Potemkin started a revolution. “Battleship Potemkin” (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein also started a revolution, or more likely continued the one from “Strike” (earlier same year) – a revolution in cinema attractions and new ways of filmmaking.
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⠀👍2. Man with a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
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Another great pioneer of Russian cinema is Dziga Vertov. In his search for “life as it is,” he first started his series “Kino-pravda” (film truth), taking the “pravda” from the name of a popular newspaper.
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“Man with a Movie Camera” camera is also experimental, introducing new cinema techniques like double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames and split screens. There is no story, just a collection of moments shot on camera of the daily life of the Soviet people in Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow and Odessa. The film is praised for its dynamics and optimism.
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❣️3. Cranes are Flying (1957, Mikhail Kalatozov)
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Cranes are Flying” by Georgian-born Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov is the only Soviet film to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (1958).
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The story focuses on the very sympathetic female character of Veronica and her long wait for her fiancé Boris, who is fighting in World War II. The audience knows that Boris dies saving another soldier’s life, but Veronika and her family don’t learn about it until the end of the war.
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🙃4. White Sun of the Desert (1970, Vladimir Motyl)
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The film is set like a western with a lot of comic elements, and many of its popular quotes entered the Russian language, such as, “The Orient is a delicate matter” or “Are there questions? No, there aren’t!”
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When Russian astronauts are going to space, they have the “White Sun of the Desert” projected for them as a ritual for good luck.
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🚶♀️5. Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
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Three man enter a highly restricted area called the “Zone,” in which reality does not follow the known principles of physics. What they are looking for is a place called the “Room,” which is known to make one’s deepest wishes come true.