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In Among Gray Stones, Kira Muratova crafts a dreamlike coming-of-age tale, adapted from a short story by legendary Ukrainian writer Vladimir Korolenko.
Kira Muratova
Soviet Union,
1983
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With his second feature, a towering epic that took him years to complete, Andrei Tarkovsky waded deep into the past and emerged with a visionary masterwork.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet Union,
1966
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Shepitko’s emotionally overwhelming final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and has been hailed around the world as the finest Soviet film of its decade.
Larisa Shepitko
Soviet Union,
1977
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Widely considered Kira Muratova’s masterpiece, The Asthenic Syndrome is also Soviet cinema’s grand avant-comic opus, a deconstructive portrait of the nation in the final, frenzied stages of the communist experiment.
Kira Muratova
Soviet Union,
1989
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A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds.
Sergei Parajanov
Soviet Union,
1969
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This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in one of the screen’s most searing depictions of anguish since Renée Falconetti’s Joan of Arc) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance.
Elem Klimov
Soviet Union,
1985
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Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart.
Mikhail Kalatozov
Soviet Union,
1957
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Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia.
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Union,
1944
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Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia.
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Union,
1958
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The debut feature by the great Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood is a poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet Union,
1962
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The great Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov, known for his virtuosic, emotionally gripping films, perhaps never made a more visually astonishing one than Letter Never Sent.
Mikhail Kalatozov
Soviet Union,
1959
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A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in images, as much a work of cinema as it is a hypnagogic hallucination.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet Union,
1975
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With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet Union,
1972
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One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker embarks on a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet Union,
1979
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Adapted from selected stories by Arkady Koshko, The Tuner is Muratova’s pitch-black con-artist comedy as well as a veritable masterclass in slow-burn spontaneity Capitalizing on an overheard conversation, low-tier schemer Andrey (Georgiy Deliev) disguises himself as a piano tuner to access the apartment of Anna (Alla Demidova), a wealthy older woman.
Kira Muratova
Russia,
2004
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At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world...
Sergei Bondarchuk
Soviet Union,
1966
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