Best award winning movies with epic masterpiece from Soviet Union
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with epic masterpiece from Soviet Union! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with epic masterpiece from Soviet Union, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Repentance (1987)
The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.
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- 1987-05-01 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Avtandil Makharadze, Iya Ninidze
Rating
7.0
2 The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
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.
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- 1957-10-12 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov
Rating
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7.957
3 Solaris (1972)
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
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- 1972-03-20 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk
Rating
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7.822
4 Andrei Rublev (1966)
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
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- 1966-12-16 | Drama / History
Cast
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov
Rating
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8.016
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5 October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
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- 1928-05-11 | Drama
Cast
- Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
Rating
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6.835
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6 Stalker (1979)
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
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- 1979-05-25 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Rating
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8.155
7 Mirror (1975)
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
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- 1975-03-07 | Drama / History
Cast
- Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev
Rating
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7.978
8 Alexander Nevsky (1938)
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.
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- 1938-11-24 | Drama / History
Cast
- Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov
Rating
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7.045
9 Earth (1930)
Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries "on kulak fields". However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.
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- 1930-04-08 | Drama
Cast
- Stepan Shkurat, Semen Svashenko
Rating
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6.7
10 Come and See (1985)
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
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- 1985-10-17 | Drama / War
Cast
- Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova
Rating
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8.257
