Best Russian Films According to Russian Film Critics

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A compilation of several best-of selections made between 1987 and 2006 by Russian film critics and academics: Nedelia, Kinovedcheskie Zapiski, Kazakhstan Cinemateque, Gosfilmfond of Russia, and the Russian Ministry of Culture.

Many films are tied in rank. See comment box below.

Thanks to Angel Gonzalez for the original information.

(For a companion list according to non-Russian critics, see: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55500.

For a more ambitious list of Russian films, see my top 1000: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/49898)

  1. 1.
    Battleship Potemkin (The Special Edition)
    by Sergei Eisenstein
  2. 2.
    Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II - Criterion Collection
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  3. 3.
    The Mirror
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  4. 4.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  5. 5.
  7. 7.
    The Cranes are Flying (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mikhail Kalatozov
  10. 10.
    Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Special Edition)
    by Sergei Paradjanov
  11. 11.
    Ballad of a Soldier (The Criterion Collection)
    by Grigoriy Chukhray
  13. 13.
    Ivan's Childhood / Ivanovo Detstvo (1962)
    by Andrei Tarkovsky
  14. 14.
    Repentance
    by Tengiz Abuladze
  16. 16.
    Strike
    by Sergei Eisenstein
  17. 17.
    Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya)(1927)
    by Abram Room
  19. 19.
    The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
    by Mark Donskoy
  21. 21.
    Falling Leaves (Giorgobistve) (1966)
    by Otar Iosseliani
  22. 22.
    July Rain (1967)
    by Marlen Khutsiev
  23. 23.
    The Beginning [Nachalo] (1970)
    by Gleb Panfilov
  25. 25.
    October (Ten Days That Shook the World)
    by Grigori Aleksandrov
  27. 27.
    Storm over Asia
    by Vsevolod Pudovkin
  29. 29.
    The Color of Pomegranates
    by Ron Holloway
  31. 31.
    Stalker
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  33. 33.
    Zvenigora
    by Aleksander Dovzhenko
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Created by MestnyiGeroi on May 25, 2008.
 

Comments

Marialanga

Untitled — 3 years ago

Thank you for the list. You can find most of them on Youtube with english subtitles.

Going to watch them now!!!!Its worth it!

May 28, 12:55PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

MestnyiGeroi

Actual rankings: — 5 years ago

1. Battleship Potemkin

2. Ivan the Terrible, 1 and 2

2. The Mirror

4. Andrei Rublev

5. Earth

6. My Friend Ivan Lapshin

7. Cranes are Flying

7. Outskirts

9. Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird

10. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

11. Ballad of a Soldier

11. I am Twenty

13. Ivan’s Childhood

14. Repentance

14. New Babylon

14. Strike

14. Bed and Sofa

14. Jolly Fellows

19. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky

19. The Fall of Otrar

19. Falling Leaves

19. July Rain

19. The Beginning

19. Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano

19. October

19. By the Law

19. Storm over Asia

19. Check-Up on the Roads

19. The Color of Pomegranates

19. Happiness

19. Stalker

19. The Ascent

19. Zvenigora

May 25, 11:03AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

mizoguchi

Untitled — 5 years ago

Great list! Thanks a lot. Hopefully i’ll be able to see the ones i haven’t yet

May 25, 10:58AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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