Nine Soviet Films

Greatings: All of these files are AVI, MPEG-4 Video, AC-3 Audio and XviD encoder. All DVD Rips except for Noch Nad Chili, which was dubbed from 45mm to VHS, VHS to DVD, then to XviD. I will eventually up the Full DVDs of most of these. Request what you want and I will msg you when it's up. 1.) Solyaris (AKA Solaris) - 1972 165 min - Colour (Sovcolor) Audio 1: Russian, Audio 2: English Commentary English Subtitles Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the three scientists on the base, the main character is sent out to replace him. He finds the station run-down and the two remaining scientists cold and secretive. When he also encounters his wife who has been dead for seven years, he begins to appreciate the baffling nature of the alien intelligence. The movie is based on the novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem. 2.)Letyat zhuravli (The Cranes are Flying) (1957) Black and white, 95 Minutes Russian with English subtitles Directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili Genre: Drama / Romance / War In Moscow, the young couple Veronika (T. Samojlova) and Boris (Aleksey Batalov) are in deep love for each other. With the World War II, Boris volunteers to join the army and is sent to the front on the day before Veronika's birthday, and they do not have the chance to say goodbye to each other. While waiting for news from Boris, Veronika is raped by Boris' cousin Mark (A. Shvorin) and they marry each other. However, Veronika does not forget Boris, and keeps waiting for him. 3.) Zemlya (Earth AKA Soil) (1930) Black and White, Silent (English writing) - 75 min Directed and written by Aleksandr Dovzhenko This film was voted one of the ten greatest films of all time by a group of 117 film historians at the 1958 Brussels World Fair. Dovzhenko's "film poem" style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian proles, examining natural cycles through his epic montage. He explores life, death, violence, sex, and other issues as they relate to the collective farms. An idealistic vision of the possibilities of Communism made just before Stalinism set in and the Kulack class was liquidated, "Earth" was viewed negatively by many Soviets because of its exploration of death and other dark issues that come with revolution. 4.) Ballada o soldate (Ballad of a Soldier) - 1959 89 min, Black and White, Russian with English Subtitles Directed by Grigori Chukhrai During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front. Instead of this medal he asks for a few days leave to visit his mother and repair the roof of their home. On the train eastwards he meets Shura who is on her way to her aunt. In those few days traveling together they fall in love. This film recevied numerous Awards and nominations. 5.) Voyna i mir (War and Peace) - 1968 390 min, Colour, Russian, English and French with English Subtitles Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk War and Peace (1968) is an eight-hour epic film based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his marriage. Another is the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. The people of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. Napoleon's armies take Moscow only after Russians burned the entire city. Napoleon cannot spend the coldest winter in the old Russian capital, even in it's fortress - Kremlin. Russians besiege the invaders in Moscow by sealing all roads and cutting supplies. Napoleon's massive army becomes exhausted, and many of his troops are deserting to Russians for survival. Napoleon gets defeated after causing terrible losses to both sides. Peace comes at a very high price. Russian society is changed by the war. Pierre Bezukhov returns from the war a mature man. He separates from his manipulative wife Helene. Now he devotes his love to the beautiful and sincere Countess Natasha Rostova. Won Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination 6.) Bezhin lug (Bezhin Meadow) - 1937 Colour, Russian (English Subs), 31 min Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein Unfinished film. A Soviet farmer son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society. 7.)Alexander Nevsky - 1938 Black and white, 112 min Audio 1: Russian, Audio 2: English commentary, English Subtitles Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein Dmitri Vasilyev It is the 13th century, and Russia is overrun by foreign invaders. A Russian knyaz', or prince, Alexander Nevsky, rallies the people to form a ragtag army to drive back an invasion by the Teutonic knights. This is a true story based on the actual battle at a lake near Novgorod. 8.) Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible) Parts I and II - 1944/58 95 min / 88 min - Russian, Black and White/Colour, English subtitles Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein M. Filimonova Part 1: In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. In scenes of his coronation, his wedding to Anastasia, his campaign against the Tartars in Kazan, his illness when all think he will die, recovery, campaigns in the Baltic and Crimea, self-imposed exile in Alexandrov, and the petition of Muscovites that he return, his enemies among the boyars threaten his success. Chief among them are his aunt, who wants to advance the fortunes of her son, a simpleton, and Kurbsky, a warrior prince who wants both power and the hand of Anastasia. Ivan deftly plays to the people to consolidate his power. Part II: His wife dead from poisoning and his chief warrior, Kurbsky, defected to the Poles, Ivan is lonely as he pursues a unified Russia with no foreign occupiers. Needing friendship, he brings to court Kolychev, now Philip the monk, and makes him metropolitan bishop of Moscow. Philip, however, takes his cues from the boyars and tries to bend Ivan to the will of the church. Ivan faces down Philip and lets loose his private force, the Oprichniks, on the boyars. Led by the Tsar's aunt, Euphrosyne, the boyers plot to assassinate Ivan and enthrone her son, Vladimir. At a banquet, Ivan mockingly crowns Vladimir and sends him in royal robes into the cathedral where the assassin awaits. 9.) Noch Nad Chili (Night Over Chile - 1977 1hr 36min, Colour, English Directed by Sebasti? Alarc? Aleksandr Kosarev Fictional account of situation in Chile after the 1973 fascitic coup of Pinochet. Hundreds of leftists where arrested, and taken to the city stadium where they where beaten, tortured. Some where released and lived to tell the tale, well many others are still missing to this day... Won 'Special Prize' at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1977 and was nominated for 'Golden Prize' the same year. Please visit "Canadian Friends of Soviet People" @: http://www.northstarcompass.org