Best award winning movies with illogical decision from Soviet Union

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with illogical decision from Soviet Union! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with illogical decision 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

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #39 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #40 for
    tour de force
  3. Ranked #55 for
    cautionary tale

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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

rating icon 7.957
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    vertiginous
  2. Ranked #33 for
    symmetry plots
  3. Ranked #45 for
    jingoistic

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3 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

rating icon 8.016
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #100 for
    arthurian
  2. Ranked #119 for
    diorama
  3. Ranked #125 for
    with biblical reference

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4 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

rating icon 7.822
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #121 for
    elegiac
  2. Ranked #131 for
    interplanetary
  3. Ranked #153 for
    thought-provoking question

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5 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

rating icon 8.257
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #172 for
    most moving
  2. Ranked #229 for
    most unsettling
  3. Ranked #249 for
    broad perspective

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6 The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

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1969-10-01 | Drama / History

Cast

Spartak Bagashvili, Sofiko Chiaureli

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #29 for
    impressionistic
  2. Ranked #37 for
    with biblical reference
  3. Ranked #52 for
    diorama

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7 Father of a Soldier (1965)

During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in the last days of war finds the son...

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1965-05-11 | Drama / War

Cast

Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    plangent sound
  2. Ranked #230 for
    handsome and tall
  3. Ranked #231 for
    wall to wall

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8 The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (1953)

Sadko is based on an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was based on a Russian epic tale of the same name. In the old Russian city of Novgorod, the merchants are feasting in a gorgeous palace and Sadko is bragging that he can bring to their land a sweet-voiced bird of happiness. They laugh at him, but he is offered help by the Ocean King's daughter, who is mesmerized by Sadko's singing and is in love with him. The hero is destined to visit many lands in his search of the bird. First shown in the USA in 1953 with English subtitles. This entry is for 1962 English-dub by Roger Corman's Filmgroup, which runs about 8 minutes shorter (removes much of the music) than the Russian original (see, Sadko, 1953)

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1953-01-05 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Sergei Stolyarov, Alla Larionova

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    chintzy
  2. Ranked #60 for
    goofball
  3. Ranked #84 for
    globetrotting

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9 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

rating icon 8.155
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    sepia tone
  2. Ranked #166 for
    opaque
  3. Ranked #171 for
    introspective

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10 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

rating icon 6.835
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #32 for
    cross-cut editing
  2. Ranked #99 for
    juxtaposition
  3. Ranked #112 for
    historical point of view

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