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Thanks, Alex. I'm impressed by the high quality of these films. They got many details correct in regard to weapons, vehicles, uniforms, etc. both Soviet and German, where many Hollywood productions get it wrong. Most of the same military equipment was still in use in the 1960s when this movie was made. Also very few films in the West show the Russian perspective of the war.
I cannot imagine being in a war of such magnitude, I'm sure my chances of survival would have been very small. It makes a single human life seem very insignificant.
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I thought that Mosfilm will be very careful when processing these movies. Some of these movies have English subtitles, while others do not have them. I wrote several times to Mosfilm asking them to make subtitles for the second part, and then wrote to the Ministry of Culture. None of them answered me. So I do not know if my letters affected the advent of English subtitles in the second part of the movie. For the third part there are subtitles but only Serbian So I already wrote a letter to Mosfilm about the third part.
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I think that when Mosfilm will make the correct English subtitles for the third part, we will all be old enough
Therefore, I interrupt this series of movies and start showing other movies. Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka: The Night Before Christmas (1961) Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки: Ночь перед Рождеством (1961) The cartoon - https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=...5&postcount=51 The Night Before Christmas (Christmas Eve) - (1913) Ночь перед Рождеством (1913)
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There are two more Soviet adaptations of this novel - (1937) and (1982). But for them there are no English subtitles.
Treasure Island (1971) Остров сокровищ (1971) The cartoon - https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=202
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Along Unknown Paths (1982)
Там, на неведомых дорожках… (1982) This is a fairy tale for children. "Там, на неведомых дорожках…" - this is a line from the poems of Alexander Pushkin.
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That was movie which Soviet schoolchildren watched instead of a movie The Terminator
Visitor from the Future (1985) Гостья из будущего (1985)
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I watched Episode 1. It reminds me a little of Doctor Who. I assume you watched this as a child? It is more positive-themed than The Terminator.
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I did not watch Doctor Who.
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With your permission, I will restore some of them. D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978)
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Dog Barbos and unusual cross (1961)
(Watching the movie is only possible on the channel of Mosfilm.) Bootleggers (1961) (Watching the movie is only possible on the channel of Mosfilm.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- White Sun of the Desert (1970) (Watching the movie is only possible on the channel of Mosfilm.) These are all movies that I was able to recover. Other movies either disappeared from YouTube altogether or appeared there in better quality but without English subtitles.
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Liberation (1968-1971)
Watching the movie is only possible on the channel of Mosfilm.
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Amphibian Man (Человек-амфибия) - (1961)
The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Alexandr Belyaev (1884-1942).
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However, now I want to offer you a movie that I watched for the first time today and it is not about war. This is a movie about several people who find themselves far from society. In this case, these are geologists. (I don't know why its name was translated like this. Literally translated, it means: "An Unsent Letter") Undelivered letter (Неотправленное письмо) - 1959. Watching the movie is only possible on the channel of Mosfilm.
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I just discovered this thread, and I find it informative on Soviet film. I lived in Boston for a few years, and was lucky enough to see a lot of Russian movies.
I especially liked one called The Kindergarten, written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and was a very thoughtful and human film about civilians in WWII Russia, and I thought it was a good view of Russian civilian life then, which we never see. There was an odd bit when the movie stopped and a modern speech was given by Young Pioneers on peace and socialism. I assumed the authorities inserted it, but also you Russians have a much more sober view of war than we Americans. As one Russian woman told me, where we American have one Memorial Day, Russia has a whole week of it. I actually saw Yevtushenko in Boston, where he gave a poetry reading. It was quite an event, and, God, he was tall. I also enjoyed a Russian film of King Lear by Grigori Kozintsev. There was also a film, Andrei Rublev, which I'm sure you heard of. Very beautiful. Do you remember a film called Moscow doesn't believe in tears? A Russian comedy of sorts. Also, I saw some old Russian silent films that had been locked up by the Bolsheviks, and were just unearthed in the 90's. They were made with silver, and were in excellent condition, and the films were really marvelous. Reminds us there was film in Russia before Eisenstein. You say you don't like contemporary Russian film, although I like some. A film, Leviathan, came out a couple of years ago and could be seen as anti-society, but I thought it very stark, human, and tragic, set in Karelia. I also liked a movie made in the 80's about Rasputin, and liked it. I understand in the USSR it was considered controversial because it showed the Czar as human, and did not do the usual communist line about him being ruthless. |
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Thanks for the title 'Agony.' I might see if I can find it somewhere.
Many, many years ago, we had Sunday afternoon TV featuring children's movies, and one was a Soviet adaptation of the O. Henry (American) story, The Ransom of Red Chief. It was unusual to see an American story done by Russians, but it was quite enjoyable. It was always relaxed, Sundays. Now, it's just trashy and loud, like all American TV. Of course also, the Soviets favored Jack London, since he was a socialist, and John Reed. In Boston, there is actually a fairly large Russian community; many are Jews, but a lot of gentiles are there as well, and being an academic center, there are lots of university film series and 'art' house cinemas, or were; that might have changed. |
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I don't know anything about Russian communities in the United States, except that there is a famous Russian district of Brighton Beach in New York.
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Alex, I went to YouTube and was able to watch 'Agony.' I hadn't seen it in 33 years, and it was a lot of fun to watch and was as I remembered it.
When it was shown in Boston, critics enjoyed the newsreels interspaced with the action, and was very new, as we in the West know absolutely nothing about WWI in Russia. I'm sure some of the scenes might have been lifted from earlier movies, though. It was also good to see a period film in Russia with Russians, and not a not of English actors. It was also liked for giving a humane portrait of Nicholas II, although he was a mess as Czar, and the film showed what kind of mental chaos the leadership of Russia was at that point. The Bolsheviks really didn't have much of an enemy in that respect. Also on Youtube I was browsing for a version of the German film Kolberg, and found one from the USSR made in 1943 about Kutusov. May look at that. |
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