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Best Russian Films According to Russian Film Critics

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. Battleship Potemkin (The Ultimate Edition) (2pc) (Full B&W)
by Sergei Eisenstein
  
2.
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 Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II - Criterion Collection
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
3. The Mirror
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
4. Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
5.
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 Earth (Zemlya)(A. Dovzhenko, 1930)  
6.
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 My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Moi drug Ivan Lapshin)(A. German, 1984)  
7. The Cranes are Flying - Criterion Collection
by Mikheil Kalatozishvili
  
8.
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 The Outskirts (aka The Patriots)(Okraina)(B. Barnet, 1931)  
9.
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 Iko Shashvi Mgalobeli (Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird)
by Otar Iosseliani
  
10. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Special Edition) (1964) (Sub)  
11. Ballad of a Soldier - Criterion Collection
by Grigori Chukhrai
  
12.
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 I am Twenty (Mne dvadtsat’ let)(M. Khutsiev, 1964)  
13. Ivan's Childhood / Ivanovo Detstvo (1962)
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
14. Repentance
by Tengiz Abuladze
  
15.
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 New Babylon (Novyi Vavilon)(G. Kozintsev/L. Trauberg, 1929)  
16. Strike
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
17.
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 Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya)(A. Room, 1927)  
18.
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 The Jolly Fellows (Vesyolye rebyata)(G. Aleksandrov, 1934)  
19. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
by Mark Donskoy
  
20.
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 The Fall of Otrar (Gibel’ Otrara; aka Ten’ zavoevatelya, ili Gibel Otrara)(A. Amirkulov, 1991)  
21.
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 Falling Leaves (Giorgobistve) (1966)
by Otar Iosseliani
  
22.
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 July Rain (1967)
by Marlen Khutsiev
  
23.
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 The Beginning [Nachalo] (1970)
by Gleb Panfilov
  
24. Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano / Neokonchenaya Pyesa Dlya Mekhanicheskogo Pianino
by Nikita Mikhalkov
  
25. October (Ten Days That Shook the World)
by Grigori Aleksandrov
  
26.
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 By the Law (aka Dura Lex)(Po zakonu)(L. Kuleshov, 1926)
by
 
27. Storm over Asia
by Vsevolod Pudovkin
  
28. Check-up on the Roads / Proverka na dorogakh - Russian Soundtrack Only
by Aleksei German
  
29. The Color of Pomegranates
by Sergei Parajanov
  
30.
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 Happiness (Shchast’e)(A. Medvedkin, 1934)  
31. Stalker (1979) (2pc) (Sub)
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
32.
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 The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye)(L. Shepitko, 1976)  
33. Zvenigora
by Aleksander Dovzhenko
  
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Created by MestnyiGeroi on May 25, 2008.