Soviet and Russian Movies in English

Category: War Movies

  • Witnesses

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    is 2018 historical drama directed by Konstantin Fam. Movie iunfolds through three interconnected stories against the backdrop of World War II. The film delves into the lives of three characters – a Jewish violinist, a boxcar, and a pair of children’s shoes – each representing different facets of the Holocaust. Through these objects, the movie…

  • Kaddish

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    is the second feature film directed by Konstantin Fam. Like Konstantin’s previous work, this film is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. “Kaddish,” directed by Konstantin Fam in 2019, is a deeply moving film set against the tragic backdrop of World War II, delving into the profound suffering of a Jewish…

  • The Last Frontier

    The Last Frontier

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    is a 2020 Russian WWII film written and directed by Vadim Shmelyov. “The Last Frontier” (2020) tells the gripping story of a group of young cadets thrust into the harrowing reality of World War II on the brutal Eastern Front. With the guidance of their dedicated instructors, these inexperienced recruits transform into battle-hardened heroes as…

  • Once In The Desert

    Once In The Desert

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    is a 2022 Russian war film directed by Andrei Kravchuk. The films follows a Syrian War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by ISIS militants while they prepare the recently liberated historic site of Palmyra to hold a symbolic concert of the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra. The peacekeeping event can only be held in Palmyra…

  • Amanat

    Amanat

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    is a 2022 Russian historical war film directed by Anton Sivers and Rauf Kubayev. The love story of the son of Imam Shamil Jamalutdin and Lisa Olenina against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the military history of Russia in the first half of the 19th century. Jamalutdin went down in history as a…

  • The Ascent

    The Ascent

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    is a 1977 black-and-white Soviet drama film, directed by Larisa Shepitko. The film won the Golden Bear award at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival in 1977. Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a…

  • Come and See

    Come and See

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    is a 1985 Soviet war drama film directed by Elem Klimov. Come and See had to wait eight years for approval from Soviet authorities before the film was finally produced to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War II, and was a large box-office hit, with 28,900,000 admissions in the Soviet…

  • 100 Minutes

    100 Minutes

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    is a 2021 Russian historical war drama film directed by Gleb Panfilov, a film adaptation based on the story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The film premiered at the 2021 Locarno International Film Festival. 100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and…

  • The Natural History of Destruction

    The Natural History of Destruction

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    is a 2022 documentary film directed by Sergei Loznitsa. Is it morally acceptable to use the civilian population as yet another tool for waging war? Is it possible to justify death and destruction for the sake of supposedly lofty ideals? The question remains as pertinent today as it was at the beginning of World War…

  • Attack and Retreat

    Attack and Retreat

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    is a Soviet-Italian war drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and Dmitri Vasilyev in 1964. Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

  • Bastards

    Bastards

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    is a 2006 Russian drama film directed by Aleksandr Atanesyan. A “Hitlerjugend” kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.

  • The Cuckoo

    The Cuckoo

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    is a 2002 Russian historical comedy drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police ‘Smersh’, has…

  • Fate of a Man

    Fate of a Man

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    is a 1959 Soviet film adaptation of the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, and also the directorial debut of Sergei Bondarchuk. In the year of its release it won the Grand Prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His…

  • The Lighthouse

    The Lighthouse

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    is a 2006 Russian film directed by Mariya Saakyan. Lena returns to her home in a remote, war-ravaged Armenian village to try and persuade her grandparents to leave with her for safety in Moscow.

  • War

    War

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    is a 2002 Russian film, directed by Aleksei Balabanov. During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.

  • Children of the Arbat (TV series)

    Children of the Arbat (TV series)

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    is a 16-part television series based on the Children of the Arbat trilogy by Anatoly Rybakov. It aired on the Channel One network in Russia in 2004.

  • The Taurus Constellation

    The Taurus Constellation

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    is a 2003 Russian war film directed by Pyotr Todorovskiy. Todorovsky’s film examines life in a provincial Russian town (that is too small to even appear on the map) just outside of Stalingrad during the famous WWII Battle. This is NOT a traditional war film, and the epic events of the battle take place almost…

  • Unknown Battle

    Unknown Battle

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    is a 2019 Russian war movie directed by Igor Kopylov. During WW2, in 1942 and 1943, a series of not-so-well known yet bloody battles occurred near the town of Rzhev. Those battles received the name of ‘Rzhev Meat Grinder’. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev, which tells about one of…