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Best Russian Films According to Worldwide Film Critics

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. Battleship Potemkin (The Ultimate Edition) (2pc) (Full B&W)
by Sergei Eisenstein
  
2. Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
3.
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 Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II - Criterion Collection
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
4. The Mirror
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
5.
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 Earth (Zemlya)(A. Dovzhenko, 1930)  
6. Stalker (1979) (2pc) (Sub)
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
7. October (Ten Days That Shook the World)
by Grigori Aleksandrov
  
8.
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 Alexander Nevsky - Criterion Collection
by Sergei Eisenstein
  
9. Strike
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
10. Dersu Uzala
by Akira Kurosawa
  
11. The Color of Pomegranates
by Sergei Parajanov
  
12. Solaris - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
13. Mother
by Vsevolod Pudovkin
  
14. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
by Mark Donskoy
  
15. Storm over Asia
by Vsevolod Pudovkin
  
16. Nostalghia
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
17. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Special Edition) (1964) (Sub)  
18. Ivan's Childhood / Ivanovo Detstvo (1962)
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
19. Come and See
by Elem Klimov
  
20. War & Peace (1968)  
21.
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 The Outskirts (aka The Patriots)(Okraina)(B. Barnet, 1931)  
22. The Cranes are Flying - Criterion Collection
by Mikheil Kalatozishvili
  
23.
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 The End of St. Petersburg (Konets Sankt-Peterburga)(V. Pudovkin/M. Doller, 1927)  
24.
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 By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinyego morya)(B. Barnet/S. Mardanin, 1936)  
25. Slave of Love. Raba lubvi. By N. Mihalkov
by Nikita Mihalkov
  
26.
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 Happiness (Shchast’e)(A. Medvedkin, 1934)  
27.
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 The General Line (aka Old and New)(Staroye i novoe, aka Generalnaya liniya)(S. Eisenstein, 1929)  
28. Repentance
by Tengiz Abuladze
  
29.
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 My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Moi drug Ivan Lapshin)(A. German, 1984)  
30. Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet
by Iosif Shapiro
  
31.
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 Iko Shashvi Mgalobeli (Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird)
by Otar Iosseliani
  
32. Lady with the Dog / Dama s sobachkoj
by Iosif Heifits
  
33. Burnt by the Sun. Utomlennye Solncem.
by Nikita Mihalkov
  
34. Arsenal (Silent) (Sub B&W)
by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  
35. Chapaev
by Sergey Vasilev
  
36. Mother and Son
by Aleksandr Sokurov
  
37.
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 Girl with the Hatbox (Devushka s korobkoi)(B. Barnet, 1927)  
38. The Return
by Andrei Zvyagintsev
  
39. Several Days From the Life of Oblomov
by Nikita Mikhalkov
  
40. I Am Cuba
by Mikheil Kalatozishvili
  
41.
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 The House on Trubnaya (Dom na Trubnoi)(B. Barnet, 1928)  
42.
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 New Babylon (Novyi Vavilon)(G. Kozintsev/L. Trauberg, 1929)  
43.
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 Road to Life (Putyovka v zhizn’)(N. Ekk, 1931)  
44.
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 The Ghost that Never Returns (Privideniye, kotoroye ne vozvrashchayetsya)(A. Room, 1929)  
45.
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 The Red Snowball Tree (aka Snowball Berry Red)(Kalina krasnaya)(V. Shukshin, 1973)  
46.
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 The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye)(L. Shepitko, 1976)  
47. Russian Ark: The Masterworks Edition  
48. Ballad of a Soldier - Criterion Collection
by Grigori Chukhrai
  
49. Aerograd (Frontier)
by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  
50.
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 Pirosmani (G. Shengelaya, 1969)  
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Created by MestnyiGeroi on May 25, 2008.