My favorite Soviet movie posters
In 1991, the Soviet Union disappeared from the world map. Together with him, Soviet cinema, great and unique, also disappeared. The new states that emerged as a result of the collapse of the USSR, including Russia, were never able, in my opinion, to reach the heights and greatness of Soviet cinema. 75 soviet movie posters as a mirror of the history of the USSR, as a separate type of fine art and as an important part of communist propaganda. The list is compiled on the basis of one year one poster (1917-1991). Before 1924, it would be correct to call posters Russian, since there was a Civil War in Russia itself at that time, and most Russian films were filmed in Europe. I chose the posters precisely for the beauty of the poster itself, and not for the importance of the poster movie. My list of favorite Soviet films looks completely different and differs from the list of posters by 90%. However, it is surprising that some great posters are drawn for my favorite films as well. These are "Bed and Sofa" (1927), "The Inspector-General" (1952), "The Cranes Are Flying" (1957), "The Idiot" (1958), "My Younger Brother" (1962), "Business People" (1963), "Goodbye, Boys"(1964),"White sun of the Desert "(1970), "A Long Goodbye"(1971), "Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven"(1976), "Mimino"(1977), "Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game"(1987) and "Kerosene Salesman's Wife" (1989)! It is also worth noting that I personally, as a big fan of Soviet films, have seen only a third of the films whose posters are on the list. This means, firstly, that a film-masterpiece and a poster-masterpiece are different things, and secondly, I really want to watch films whose posters are included in the list. There is still something to strive for, however, as always happens, this dream will never come true 100%, because some of the films on the list have sunk into oblivion. But the posters of these unseen masterpieces remained. Thanks to those people who kept them for us.
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- DirectorVyacheslav ViskovskyStarsV. DalskayaKonstantin KhokhlovPyotr LeontyevElena, who is hopelessly in love with Prince Bassargin, goes to a fortune-teller, Sybil, for help.
Screen adaptation of Kryzhanovskaya-Rochester novel "Infernal Chara". The fortuneteller Sibylla and Satan himself help the girl to attract the object of passion.
The film was not completely preserved and without inscriptions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnsrVgyGZfo - DirectorVitold PolonskyLev KuleshovStarsTasya BormanA. ChernovaNikolay GorichProduction of "N. Kozlovsky, S. Yuriev & Co.".
The film has not survived. - DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsVladimir GajdarovNathalie LissenkoA psychological drama about the suffering of a woman's soul.
The film has not survived. - DirectorPyotr ChardyninNikolai SaltykovStarsPyotr InsarovWas withdrawn from the rental in December 1928, as poor quality artistically and ideologically.
The film has not survived. - DirectorIvane PerestianiStarsMikheil ChiaureliIvane PerestianiAlisa KikodzeRevolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.The first feature film production based on Georgian material with the participation of Georgian actors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDRrkI4bOOo - DirectorAleksandr PanteleyevStarsPyotr KirillovUrsula KrugVladimir MaksimovThe film contains footage of newsreels taken during the Volga famine in 1921-1922.
The film has not survived. - DirectorAmo Bek-NazaryanStarsNato VachnadzeVaso ArabidzeBejanovaIago, young fellow falls in love with Nunu. But, by her beauty is already fascinated old, rich and married Girgola. Girgola does everything to get Nunu.Based on the novel by Alexander Kazbegi "Patricide".
- DirectorAleksandr IvanovskyStarsYevgeni BoronikhinYuri Korvin-KrukovskyMarina YuryevaBased on the novel by O. Forsch "Dressed in stone" and the story by P. Shchegolev "The Mysterious Prisoner".
The film was restored at the Lenfilm film studio in 1936. - DirectorVladimir GardinStarsP. MeshcherinGuzenkoAleksandra KartsevaAbout the struggle of the Bolshevik underground and red partisans in the rear of the Kolchak troops, which culminated in an attack on the enemy train, the capture of Kolchak and the discovery of a carefully guarded gold reserve.About the struggle of the Bolsheviks and partisans in the rear of the Kolchak troops.
The film has not survived. - DirectorKonstantin EggertVladimir YegorovDavid MorskoiStarsMariya Blyumental-TamarinaAleksandr GeirotOlga ZhiznevaAbout the life of the workers of Donbass during the revolution and civil war against Denikin's troops.
The film has not survived. - DirectorAbram RoomStarsVladimir FogelNikolay BatalovLyudmila SemyonovaA married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.Love triangle during the NEP years. The prototypes of the main characters were Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Brik family.
- DirectorDziga VertovThis documentary film is showing the hard labor of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the U.S.S.R. economy and turning their country into a world power.The film is dedicated to the industrialization of the Ukrainian SSR to the 11th anniversary of the October Revolution.
The film is silent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4IVYWCURKo - DirectorFridrikh ErmlerStarsEmil GalSergey GerasimovYakov GudkinA story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.About a man who lost his memory under the tsar after a shell shock in the war, and who regained his memory after the revolution under socialism. The film was restored and dubbed in 1967. In 2018, work was completed on the restoration of the original uncensored version of the tape, which lasted more than seven years.
- DirectorDziga VertovHow the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsMaksim ShtraukhLyubov NenashevaNaum RogozhinAfter the robbery, the cashier's wife finds the bag with the money under the stairs, and the cashier gets the opportunity to embezzle the money.
- DirectorYakov UrinovStarsGeorgiy MuzalevskiyFyodor BlazhevichSergey MartinsonThe director of the Soviet plant learns that there are pest groups at the plant with the study of his wife from the diaries of a suddenly deceased friend, a Chekist, and gives his wife into the hands of Soviet justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42MvFoxqy24 - DirectorIvan PyrevStarsAda VoytsikVeronika PolonskayaTamara MakarovaInvented capitalist country. Beginning of 1930th. An economic crisis throws out on the street of three friends - young workwomen. Their dreams collapse about safe life, and each begins the difficult way in its own way.
- DirectorAleksandr MacheretStarsBoris LivanovV. TsishevskyKonstantin GradopolovGraduating students of school Peter Vinogradov, Senya Kaufman and Kotya Ohotnikov leave from a distant city to Moscow. Friends promise not to forget a home town and friends. Peter with melancholy says goodbye to favorite girl Valya, dreaming to enter the Moscow conservatory. Arriving in the capital, friends act to work on a car factory and settle down in evening institution of higher learning. Life begins only.
- DirectorVladimir VaynshtokDavid GutmanStarsNikolay CherkasovYakov SegelOlga BazanovaThe son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures in Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand...
- DirectorGrigoriy RoshalStarsNikolai PlotnikovYelena MaksimovaAndrei Abrikosov"Paris Commune," 1870-1871. Poor working class in Paris rises up against their oppressors as France is defeated by Germany in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian war.
- DirectorAleksandr IvanovStarsElena TyapkinaZoya FyodorovaNikolay KryuchkovThe Soviet Far East and Manzhou-Go are separated by a border river, on one side of which the Russian White Guards settled in a small Manchurian village, and the Vlasov family lives on the opposite bank. Wishing to destroy the Vlasovs, the White Guards penetrate their house. A group of fighters comes to the aid, led by the commandant of the border section, Captain Tarasov. A long, grueling battle begins.
- DirectorKonstantin YudinStarsValentina SerovaEmma TsesarskayaAndrey TutyshkinIn search of truth and the opportunity to punish the director-bureaucrat who's work collapsed the once prosperous Far East fur farm, the best worker on the farm, Katya Ivanova arrives in Moscow. On the way to the railway station, Katya catches and surrenders a spy to border guards. On the train, the girl gets acquainted with the handsome navy sailor Sergei Berezkin, who offers her to go to Moscow and contact the Complaints Bureau there (this is such an instance where you can complain about anyone). In Moscow, Katya, while her complaint is being considered, works in one organization, then in another, and everywhere she agitate to girls to go to the Far East.
- DirectorNikolai TikhonovStarsIvan PelttserSergei AntimonovNikolai GladkovThe action takes place in Turkmenistan in the 1930s. The old surgeon Yastrebov forbids his daughter Liza from practicing parachuting, considering it too dangerous. One day, a pilot arrives from the airport. In a remote village, a child is dying, and needs an urgent operation. Yastrebov agrees to fly. But on the radio they report that a strong snowstorm began in the landing area, the landing strip is covered. The elderly doctor does not want to hear anything about turning back. He decides to make a parachute jump. After a successful operation, the child's life is saved.
- DirectorViktor EysymontStarsZoya FyodorovaMariya KapustinaOlga FyodorinaDuring the Finnish war, a group of Soviet girls voluntarily go to the front. They help doctors save the lives of wounded soldiers, and also fight with the enemy.
- DirectorYuli RaizmanStarsValentina KaravayevaMikhail KuznetsovD. PankratovaIn 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha, falls in love with a telegraph operator called Mashenka.
- StarsShaken Ajmanov
- DirectorViktor EysymontStarsNina IvanovaNatalya ZashchipinaAda VoytsikWoven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.
- DirectorLeonid LukovStarsTatyana OkunevskayaElena TyapkinaVera AltayskayaThe film tells the story of Soviet youth, bravely fought in the Great Patriotic War against the fascist invaders in the Donbass region occupied by the Germans.
- DirectorYefim AronGrigoriy RoshalStarsKalibek KuanyshbayevKapan BadyrovSerke KozhamkulovThe screen adaptation of the novel "Abai" by Mukhtar Auezov recreates the story of prominent Kazakh poet and philosopher Abay Kunanbayev. The famous Kazakh poet became friends with the Russian exile, scientist Nifont Dolgopolov. Under the influence of their growing friendship, Abai formed some of his academic ideas and principles.
- DirectorIlya FrezStarsTamara MakarovaKira GolovkoTatyana BaryshevaMarusya is a capricious, spoiled, but kind girl. Now she needs to go to school. It was very difficult for the girl to get used to the school system. But the help of a wise teacher and sensitive companions really help her in this.
- DirectorAleksandr FaintsimmerVladimir Korsh-SablinStarsVladimir DruzhnikovYuriy TolubeevAleksandr KhvylyaYoung railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsNikolai KomissarovSergei VecheslovYelena KuzminaLast days of WWII. English and American agents head to Berlin for secret negotiations with nazi leaders.
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsIgor GorbachyovYuriy TolubeevAnastasiya GeorgievskayaKhlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses the situation for taking bribes from the local governor and flirting with both his wife and daughter. Khlestakov abuses the corruption and hypocrisy of the local authorities until, at the end, the real inspector shows up...
- DirectorYuriy OzerovFilm-concert of the best numbers shown at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR at a festive concert on November 6, 1953. Performers of the concert included David Oistrakh, Igor Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, Igor Bezrodny, Yulian Sitkovetsky, Galina Barinova, Kirill Kondrashin, Maya Golovnya, Svyatoslav Richter etc.
- DirectorAleksandr IvanovskyNadezhda KosheverovaStarsLyudmila KasatkinaPavel KadochnikovLeonid BykovThe story is about heiress of the circus family who organizes show "Let's get married" right in the cage for the tigers.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsTatyana SamoylovaAleksey BatalovVasiliy MerkurevVeronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsYuriy YakovlevYuliya BorisovaNikita PodgornyUpon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovStarsLyubov OrlovaAndrei PopovPavel Kadochnikov58-year-old actress Orlova plays a beauty who makes visitors from the capitalist states change their, western media influenced, opinion of the Soviet Union when their plane makes a stop in Siberia and then arrives to Moscow. The visitors are impressed with the Soviet Union's prosperity and technological progress, such as space technology.
- DirectorAleksandr MittaAleksei SaltykovStarsAleksandr KobozevAnna RodionovaAleksey BorzunovIn the pioneer organization of one of the schools, fiction and boredom reign. Kolka Snegirev and his friends are organizing the "Secret Society". A conflict is brewing.
- DirectorAleksandr ZarkhiStarsLyudmila MarchenkoAleksandr ZbruevOleg DalFour teenagers spend their first summer after graduation at a fishing collective in Estonia.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsRostislav PlyattGeorgiy VitsinYuriy NikulinTwo bandits learn that kidnapping is a very profitable business. So they decide to kidnap local rich person's son in hope to get a substantial ransom.
- DirectorMikhail KalikStarsNatalya BogunovaEvgeniy SteblovAnna RodionovaGoodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. It's summer, and their main goals are swimming in the Black Sea and wooing the girl all three of them love. However, they are asked to become officers in the military, and slowly their worlds begin changing forever. Their parents oppose them, they begin fearing losing each other and their families, and the military tricks and maneuvers them into joining the army instead of the navy.
- DirectorVadim DerbenyovStarsEvgeniy LebedevValentina SperantovaMariya KremnevaAn older couple have four children who left them long ago. Tired of waiting for letters which never arrive, the father takes a trip to see how the children are doing.
- DirectorEvgeniy SherstobitovStarsAleksandr BarsovTatyana KlyuyevaRafik SabirovSoviet kids helping KGB to uncover foreign spy while in a same place movie group is up make spy movie.
- DirectorVitaliy MelnikovStarsMikhail KononovAleksey GribovGennadiy DanzanovA young patriotic man ends up in the on Chukotka right after the civil war, where he intends to spread ideas of justice and equality among the natives, but instead he learns the local capitalist ways.
- DirectorGeorgi NatansonStarsTatyana DoroninaAleksandr LazarevOleg EfremovFor her, the sweet and somehow naive flight attendant Natasha, it was love at first sight. For him, a cynical and cold scientist, it's just a meeting. Their romance is just a series of short, stolen moments. But will something change between them?
- DirectorVladimir MotylStarsAnatoliy KuznetsovPavel LuspekayevSpartak MishulinAt the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsZinaida SharkoOleg VladimirskyYuriy KayurovA single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.
- DirectorAleksandr MittaKenji YoshidaStarsKomaki KuriharaOleg VidovMakoto SatôA young Japanese ballet dancer comes to Moscow to study at the Bolshoy Theater, works hard, gets a titular role in Gisele and falls in love with the local sculptor. Then she gets a news that will change evrything...
- DirectorEmil LoteanuStarsGrigore GrigoriuSvetlana TomaBarasbi MulayevRada, a beautiful and very proud gipsy girl is used to steal men's hearts and monk them. Zobar is a horse thief who's heart is stolen by Rada and his mind is bewitched. He is ready to give up his freedom but not his pride.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsVakhtang KikabidzeFrunzik MkrtchyanElena ProklovaLocal Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.
- DirectorBoris BushmelevStarsVladimir BasovViktor IlichyovTatyana VasilevaA certain creative group decides to open in one of the regional cities an amusement attraction called "Labyrinth". Colleagues come to the city, stay in a hotel and unexpectedly face a whole mountain of all sorts of trouble.
- DirectorDzidra RitenbergaStarsGeorgiy TaratorkinSvetlana SmirnovaAlgis MatulionisYoung chekist Yuris Vilks infiltrates gang of Francisc in post-war Latvia to discover its connections with "forrest brothers".
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsRuta StaliliunaiteJuozas BudraitisLeonid FilatovA film about the psychological crisis of a woman in her 40s as she tries to create the illusion of love - looking for herself in love and love in herself.
- DirectorSergey VronskiyStarsAnatoliy KuznetsovNikolai SkorobogatovGalina PolskikhAt the resort, chance brings together Grebentsov and Panshin, former fellow soldiers. Grebentsov had once vacationed in these places, and then he had an affair with a beautiful local girl, Nadya. And now she appears again in Grebentsov's life. The past enters the present and may change tomorrow.
- DirectorRezo EsadzeStarsRuslan MikaberidzeGuram PetriashviliZura KipshidzeA group of people who happen to be on the same bus try to get home on the New Year's Eve, but their bus is delayed by numerous obstacles, and the tensions grow.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsRolan BykovIosif RyklinViktor MikhaylovIn the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son.
- DirectorVadim AbdrashitovStarsAnton AndrosovYelena DmitriyevaElena YakovlevaPlumbum in translation from Latin means lead - it is Ruslan Chutko's nickname who decided to become a "sanitary assistant of society." But while being taken away by his role of fighting against evil, he goes beyond the limits of child's game and mercilessly intrudes into other people's fates. This film is a sharp detective story dealing with deep and actual moral problem...
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsNikolay KarachentsovTatyana MikhalevkinaYuriy DubrovinThe city authorities, preparing for the holiday of the city, are urgently looking for a worthy candidate for the role of "Mother of a millionth resident." But a misunderstanding happened: in a hurry, painfully unsuccessfully chosen mother.
- DirectorAleksandr KaydanovskiyStarsVytautas PauksteAleksandr BaluevAnna MyasoyedovaOne of the brothers operated on a boy. Another assisted him. It took a blood transfusion. Expensive for a moment, the surgeon did not check the material submitted by the assistant and poured the blood of the wrong group to the patient. The baby is dead. The life of the brothers has changed dramatically. One became a kerosene worker, the other became the chairman of the city council.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsViktor SukhorukovAnzhelika NevolinaEvgeniy MerkurevThe story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.