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"The Last Warrior: A Messenger of Darkness," a fantasy comedy film, was the most attended movie in 2022, viewed by over five million visitors in Russian cinemas. "Uncharted" had...
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It is unfortunate that the times of total censorship are returning. Some films from the 2022 list also have a chance not to reach Russian cinemas in the near future. Peace to the whole world. One interesting fact about the best Russian films of 2022: 3 films out of 10 are films from Yakut studios!
- Cast Away
- Sputnik
- The Bourne Supremacy
- Burnt by The Sun
- The Russia House
- War and Peace
- The Loves of Liszt
- In The Forests of Siberia
- Devil’s Pass
- The Barber of Siberia
Cast Awayis an American survival film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. The movie tells the story of Chuck Noland, a high-ranking official at FedEx who puts his work ahead of his personal life. While flying with a cargo plane he gets caught in a storm. When part of the payload explodes, th...
Sputnikis a Russian science-fiction horror film directed by Egor Abramenko in his feature directorial debut. The movie stars Pyotr Fyodorov, Fedor Bondarchuk, and Oksana Akinshina. The film takes place in the Soviet Union in the year 1983. Astronaut Konstantin is the sole survivor of a space mission. He returns to Earth, and in doing so brings with...
The Bourne Supremacy is an American action thriller film featuring Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne character and was preceded by The Bourne Identity (2002) itself a movie made in Greece. The movie was directed by Paul Greengrass and stars Matt Damon, Joan Allen, and Brian Cox. The story is about a CIA operation getting disrupted by a Russian rival and...
Burnt By The Sunis a Russian / French drama film by director and screenwriter Nikita Mikhalkov and starring Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov and Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė. The film received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994. The story takes place in Russia in the year 1936, where Hero of the Russian revolution Colonel Kotov spends ...
The Russia Houseis an American spy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Roy Scheider. The movie is about three notebooks that are believed to contain Russian military secrets. These notebooks come in the possession of a British reporter during a Russian book conference. The British secret service then sta...
War And Peaceis a Russian romantic drama film starring Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, and Sergey Bondarchuk, who was also the director. The film is a retelling of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and it is widely considered as being one of the most expensive and longest films of all time and having some of the most...
The Loves Of Lisztis a Hungarian / Russian musical drama film produced and directed by Márton Keleti, based on the biography of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt. The movie stars Imre Sinkovits, Ariadna Shengelaia and Sándor Pécsi. The film tells the story of Franz Liszt, who defeats renowned pianist Thalberg at a piano competition in ...
In The Forests Of Siberia is a French survival film directed by Safy Nebbou and starring Raphaël Personnaz and Evgeniy Sidikhin. The movie is an adaptation of Sylvain Tesson’s book The Consolations of the Forest, published in 2011. The film tells the story of Teddy, who decides to move away from the noise of the world and settle in a cabin on the f...
Devil’s Passis a Russian / Finnish found footage horror film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Holly Goss, Matt Stokoe, and Luke Albright. The movie is based upon the Dyatlov Pass Incident, a real-life event in which nine Russian hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between the first and second of February 1959, under mysterious circumsta...
The Barber Of Siberiais a Russian film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and starring Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, and Aleksey Petrenko. The movie was screened out of competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of a woman (Ormond) who, in early 1900s Russia, first helps a man who might be her father and then falls in love wit...
- Boris Egorov
- Zoya. In 1941, when the battle for Moscow was at its peak, Nazi forces took up positions in villages surrounding the capital and the Soviets sent saboteur-scout groups to burn down the buildings in the settlements that the enemy was planning to use to wait out the winter.
- Chernobyl. The Abyss. After the resounding success of the HBO miniseries ‘Chernobyl’, Russian filmmakers began working on their own show dealing with the tragic events.
- Palma. It’s 1977. Igor Polsky leaves on a trip, but cannot take his dog with him, because it doesn’t have the necessary medical papers. Abandoned, Palma finds sanctuary at the airport and meets every arriving plane in hopes that her owner will exit the arrivals gate.
- The Pilot. In the winter of 1941, Nikolay Komlev’s plane is shot down somewhere over the inhospitable wilderness. The pilot survives, but the hardest ordeal still awaits him.
- Paper Soldier (Aleksey German, 2008) Paper Soldier is a period piece surrounding a space launch for Soviet Cosmonauts in the 1960s. With a well-written script and great set design, the film tells a story of a Soviet Union in the midst of an uneasy transition to a more liberal society.
- How I Ended This Summer (Aleksei Popogrebski, 2010) Set in a remote Arctic Island, How I Ended this Summer tells the story of two scientists conducting geological research from an old Soviet Outpost.
- Leviathan (Andrei Zvyaginstev, 2014) Censorship has always been an unfortunate reality for Russian filmmakers. Even in 2014, illiberal anti-blasphemy laws forced Andrei Zvyaginstev to edit out explicit language from Leviathan in order to secure a domestic release.
- Euphoria (Ivan Vrypaev, 2013) Euphoria is a film that is singular in vision and simplistic in its dramatic narrative. The most notable aspect of this film is its sprawling cinematography, which calls to mind Soviet films such as Mikhail Kaltozov’s Letters Never Sent.
Let’s take a look at the top 50 feature films about or staged in Russia in chronological order. 1. Anna Karenina, 1935. Legion Media. A Hollywood classic and one of the first screen adaptations...
Dec 18, 2017 · Olga Glioza 18 December 2017. Russian cinema has a long and rich history – the last decades have seen everything from Soviet films through to contemporary arthouse movies. If you’re planning a trip to Russia and want to know what makes it tick, check out our pick of the top films to help you understand the country just that little bit better. Brat.
