Best Russian Films According to Worldwide Film Critics

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A compilation of numerous best-of selections made by worldwide (i.e., non-Russian) film critics: Sight and Sound, Cahiers du Cinema, The Village Voice, Steadycam, Nickel Odeon, Kinema Junpo, FIAF, Time Out, Positif.

Thanks again to Angel Gonzalez for the original information.

(For a companion list according to Russian critics, see http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55499.

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

  1. 1.
    Battleship Potemkin (The Special Edition)
    by Sergei Eisenstein

  2. 2.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  3. 3.
    Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II - Criterion Collection
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  4. 4.
    The Mirror
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  5. 5.

  6. 6.
    Stalker
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  7. 7.
    October (Ten Days That Shook the World)
    by Grigori Aleksandrov

  8. 8.
    Alexander Nevsky - Criterion Collection
    by Sergei Eisenstein

  9. 9.
    Strike
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  10. 10.
    Dersu Uzala
    by Akira Kurosawa

  11. 11.
    The Color of Pomegranates
    by Ron Holloway

  12. 12.
    Solaris (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  13. 13.
    Mother
    by Vsevolod Pudovkin

  14. 14.
    The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
    by Mark Donskoy

  15. 15.
    Storm over Asia
    by Vsevolod Pudovkin

  16. 16.
    Nostalghia
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

  17. 17.
    Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Special Edition)
    by Sergei Paradjanov

  18. 18.
    Ivan's Childhood / Ivanovo Detstvo (1962)
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

  19. 19.
    Come and See

  20. 20.
    War & Peace (1968)
    by Sergei Bondarchuk

  21. 22.
    The Cranes are Flying (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mikhail Kalatozov

  22. 25.
    Slave of Love. Raba lubvi. By N. Mihalkov
    by Nikita Mihalkov

  23. 27.
    The General Line (Old and New) (Staroye i novoye) (1929)
    by Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein

  24. 28.
    Repentance

  25. 30.
    Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet
    by Grigori Kozintsev

  26. 32.
    Lady with the Dog / Dama s sobachkoj
    by Iosif Heifits

  27. 33.
    Burnt by the Sun. Utomlennye Solncem.
    by Nikita Mihalkov

  28. 34.
    Arsenal
    by Aleksandr Dovzhenko

  29. 35.
    Chapaev
    by Sergey Vasilev

  30. 36.
    Mother and Son
    by Aleksandr Sokurov

  31. 38.
    The Return
    by Andrei Zvyagintsev

  32. 39.
    Several Days From the Life of Oblomov
    by Nikita Mikhalkov

  33. 40.
    I Am Cuba
    by Mikhail Kalatozov

  34. 41.
    The House on Trubnaya (Dom na Trubnoi)(1928)
    by Boris Barnet

  35. 47.

  36. 49.
    Aerograd (Frontier)
    by Aleksandr Dovzhenko

  37. 50.
    Pirosmani (G. Shengelaya, 1969)

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Created by MestnyiGeroi on May 25, 2008.
 

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