MestnyiGeroi's "20 Classic Russian Film Comedies"
Ask your average non-Russian fan of world cinema about Russian movies, and you are likely to hear names such as Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, and Vertov from the early Soviet years, and Tarkovsky, Sokurov, Paradzhanov, Klimov and Shepitko from the later years. These are all great filmmakers, all known for their serious, often dark and austere films.
But if you ask Russians themselves about the best Russian movies ever made, other names less known in the West will come up just as frequently—names like Gaidai, Ryazanov, and Daneliya. These are the directors of comedies, and it can rightly be claimed that Russia has an illustrious history of cinema comedy.
Some rather goofy and broad, some wry and subtle, here, roughly in order of popularity, is a selected list of the comedies that, to my mind, have become the most beloved entries in the annals of Russian cinema comedy.
(Any suggestions – about order or choices— are welcome.)
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Autumn Marathon ( Osenniy marafon ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Netherlands ]by Georgi Daneliya
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Peculiarities of the National Hunt / Osobennosti natsional'noy okhoty - Russian Soundtrack Onlyby Aleksandr Rogozhkin
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