good Russian movies

I'm an American trying to teach myself Russian, I have a grammar book and I will use online resources to complement it. Mostly I'm interested in reading Russian academic works that have not been translated into English, but speaking and understanding the spoken language is also desirable. I have heard that one good way to start absorbing a language is to watch movies in the language. What are some good Russian movies with decent sound quality? I love Stalker and I might use that one. Any other suggestions from Russian lains?

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>>6751 >dead mans letters >Ugly Swans both somewhat post apocalyptic, IIRC they were done by one of the apprentices to the director of STALKER

The most famous Russian film in the west is probably Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears. It's good. Something else you should consider is films that you're already familiar with that have a Russian voiceover/dub. Based on your image, I'm going to go with anime.

>>6754 I don't actually watch much anime lol, I just find the image funny. That is a good idea, I could for instance find a Russian dub of The Big Lebowski.

On a related note, where do you download your Russian movies? I use rutracker but frequently what I'm looking for is only available as 720p or as a full blu ray rip. Is that just how the Russian scene is?

>>6756 There used to be a site that was basically an archive of Russian cinema (found it probably 7 or 8 years ago), and they had pretty much any Russian movie made with English subtitles. Unfortunately, I forgot the name, but last I checked it was behind a paywall.

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>>6753 wasn't a fan of leviathan. it felt too made-for a certain type of western film critic.

>>6752 know of a torrent? Only one I can find is not seeded

>>6751 there aren't any "good" movies from this country, instead we just watch this guy www.youtube.com/channel/UC6cqazSR6CnVMClY0bJI0Lg soykaf on new movies paid for with taxmoneys >>6753 not sure about the first two pictures but "Leviathan" is like kicking whales, pic related and BadComedian also has a video. т. ну вы знаете руса

>>6756 >is only available as 720p or as a full blu ray rip. Is that just how the Russian scene is? Yes, what else do you need? Alternatively, you can watch soviet films on their youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/MosfilmRuOfficial/videos

First russian grimdark.

>>6751 I don't know about movies that can assist in you learning the language but here's a list of what I think are pretty good Russian shows/movies 17 moments of spring The meeting place cannot be changed Tarkovsky's movies Russian Ark The Fool Leviathan Operation Y and Shurik's other adventures War and Peace Russian Ark Brother

>>6751 I would recommend White Sun of the Desert (Белое Солнце Пустыни) from 1970. Also Bumer (Бумер) from 2003, and Racketeer (Рэкетир) from 2007 which is Kazakh Russian-language film.

Is this thread full of Russian elitists or just clueless westerners? What's the point in recommending most popular films with international recognition? I expected real obscure arthouse stuff or just plain trashy pictures. Gee, these people unironically read Dostoevsky outside school assignments.

>>6972 Russians people has no money and free time to make such a movie. We work for food and sleep sometimes. For any objectionable movie you can go to jail. We better with music, thy to hear C-file, lumen, ночные грузчики (night loaders), Fleur. Also, a try to learn English, do you want to try email correspondence?

idk how to describe 'a visitor to a museum' without using the word depressing, but that makes it sound similar to every other russian movie ive ever seen - though i must admit i havent delved too deep in this area its a post apocalytic film where mutants called "degenerates" practice a strange religion where they beg to no longer exist. the main character wants to find a museum on the bottom of the ocean that can only be reached when the tides pull back.

>>6989 I sort of gave up learning Russian haha I guess I just don't have a good reason to learn it

Try pic related, it features a medieval society in contact with a space faring one. It's the second time the story was adapted, the other version is an 80s German version which is more in the vein of other 80s science fantasy like Krull. The Russian version is more arty or whatever. >>7025 >without using the word depressing It applies.

>>7027 Honestly all of the Russian films based on books by the Strugatsky brothers tend to be worth a watch, they're good reads too.

>>7028 2008 Prisoners of Power/Inhabited Island adaptation is always kicked like dead whales down the beach by Russian film critics for it's visual style and very poor main actor performance to the point where he had to be dubbed (fairly regular practice in Russian cinema, but only when main character is played by a foreign actor), but I actually like it's goofy cliche cyberpunk dystopian city aesthetics which obviously looks borrowed from many western works like Mario Brothers, Judge Dredd, 5th Element and other 90's classics, and even something out of 2002 movie Equilibrium which is in itself a compound work borrowing from 20th century dystopian classics, it also sports some unconventional vehicles like a 6-wheeler coupe made from LADA Zhiguli and tanks designed and rebuilt by actual tank factory in Ukraine. There's a particularly memetic moment in the end of first part criticized by everyone where a pink automatic tank appears in a green jungle, and later when MC boards it through what looks like a quickly-cut access hatch and a plywood trapdoor covering it. The official story goes like this: tank factory engineers argued that an automatic tank should not have any trapdoors on it and re3fused to make one, so the film crew had to improvise on site, the "critics" criticize lavish pink color of a tank not belonging to the forest, however they forget that tank was malfunctioning and might have followed it's way from a neighboring desert. After all, the original book aesthetics: depiction of architecture, people and society are more about post-war Stalin's Moscow where authors lived, and quirky cyberpunk late 90's aesthetic is just a fad of the time to hook on youngsters. Although, I reckon a darker diesel-atompunk version of the movie with vidrelated aesthetics would indeed score more positive reviews and cinema awards, much like Hard to Be God.

>>7050 Cool webm. It calms me down.

>>7050 >The official story goes like this: tank factory engineers argued that an automatic tank should not have any trapdoors on it and re3fused to make one, so the film crew had to improvise on site I can imagine some welders arguing fervently with a turtleneck-wearing director and finally one of the welder says "blyat! This is so fuarrrking stupid!" and the welders just leave. also very nice webm

>>6751 The best russian movies is "Brother" and "Brother 2". Ну а теперь на русском. Стоит посмотреть эти фильмы. Раз уж я в треде, то посоветую ещё Ночной дозор не знаю как на английском/ i don't know how it be in English now

>>6989 Russians anytime go to the melkobordy small boards, you know? Ставлю 20 баксов на то что ты сам русский раз такое пишешь, кхех

>>6765 bump, brat is the soykaf. easily my second favourite movie of all time

>>7082 Night Watch

T-34 (2019) movie about a russian tank crew. Simple enough story but you're watching it for the Matrix styled bullet-time.

>>6972 В наше время мало встретишь настоящих илитариев на парашах. Чаще всего это обычные снобы с около-культурных тусовок. Хотя, какая разница~ >>6803 Добавлю от себя. https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/675498/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/521526/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/418255/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/252063/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/1178267/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/47040/ - Когда в 6 лет смотрел - плакал. https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/653696/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/922150/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/992605/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/41109/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/909700/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/84830/ Но я кино не особо смотрю, впрочем, как и любой аноньчик. >>7541 >T-34 (2019) Шо оригинал был агитационной жвачкой, шо продолжение стало очередным боевиком. Даже как-то забавно.

>>7548 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNyxhuzPgJI

Stalker (1979) Solaris (1972) Night Watch (2004) Planeta bur (1962) Budet laskovyy dozhd (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc Firing Range (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnJbtbh4tDE

>1 Absolutely terrifying history. >2 Well, just good dark fantasy.

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>>6961 >White Sun of the Desert This bigly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5oyppOiBSs Also Siberiade. I used to watch a lot of Russian ww2 movies with my dad (he would translate them for me in real time) and the best one I remember by name was Fortress of War (2010). There was also a really old one about a tank commander I saw on VHS which I don't remember by name, there was a scene where the main character is fishing in a pond until he gets called up by radio to enter his T-34 and drive to battle, any Russians have an idea what film it could have been?

>>6751 >May there always be sunshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FsCbnEdKo0

Почему на какую бы имиджборду я не пошёл там всегда есть русские, особенно это часто наблюдается на имиджбордах технологической тематики, даже на ебаном Наночане есть русские. Иногда я вот думаю что все на этой борде просто русичи просто пишут на инглиш лангвидже

>>6961 >White Sun of the Desert There's a tradition among cosmonauts launching from Baikonur to watch this movie on the night before liftoff.

>>6751 Technically not a movie but if you're interested in the Ak-47 from a russian point of view, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io7Zztghdno

>>7894 Не, ну, чему удивляться тут? Мы по всему миру разошлись, везде нормально прижылись, а к нам что-то никто не хочет. и не начинай мне тут про херовую економику и Путин вор, в евжопе тоже дохера варуют, только здесь не заметно потому что тут коррупцию не раскрывают И кто говорит что здесь не могут просто знать русский как второй язык? Учить языки никто ещё не запрещал. Смотри ОП. Привет с германистана.

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>>8420 >knam ne chto ne hotschet >privet is germanistana actually germanistani go to ru for cheap farmland. Not many but its a thing to buy a few hectar since you can get several hectar for a fraction of the price compared to de. Same reason most retire into a cheaper country but focused here on ru since it got most space

is this movie any good? Or is it Russian propaganda? >Gagarin - First In Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNneUUKo62E

>>6751 I`d like to recommend to you my own list of films I will watch soon: https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/46660/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/42571/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/672820/(actually, this film is accessible on vk.com in videos, but maybe it is possible to find it somewhere else) And my favorite Russian director is Kirill Serebrennikov and there is some of his artworks: https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/252099/ https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/922150/ Recently his new film was filmed, there are many good reviews, but I didn`t watch it: https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/1263423/

'Игра на выживание'_2020 Survival (TV series) https://www.kinopoisk.ru/series/1395366/ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Игра_на_выживание_(телесериал)

>>7894 Потому что в Мордоре все борды уничтожены, а православные поцреоты и подзалупные уёбища вроде этого >>8420 съебали за границу кукарекать что всё норм!

'Страна ОЗ'_2015 The Land of Oz https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/820668/ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wikiСтрана_ОЗ_(фильм) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_of_Oz_(film)

The ukranian invasion (2022-02-24) is an ongoing series.

Thief was really good. Also the adaptation of Master and Margherita was pretty good.

>>6751 Kin-dza-dza! Russian sci-fi/dystopian film

>>9590 I'm no expert in Soviet cinema but Kin-dza-dza! has to be the closest to a Terry Gilliam film they ever had. I think at that time they were loosening their censorship rules and allowing for more parody of their own system, which was about to collapse anyway.