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1950s Russian-language Movies

Public list by WPS with 198 movies or TV shows/series

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A Night to Remember(1958)

2h 3min | Drama, Action, History
3.8/5 (with 103 votes)

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

Directed by Roy Ward Baker - With Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe, Laurence Naismith, ...

The Snow Queen(1957)

1h 8min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him.

Directed by Lev Atamanov, Nikolay Fyodorov

Ballad of a Soldier(1959)

1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
4.1/5 (with 77 votes)

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.

Directed by Grigori Chukhrai - With Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Yevgeni Urbansky, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Antonina Maksimova

The Scarlet Flower(1952)

42min | Animation, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

Before going on an overseas journey, a merchant father asks his three daughters what they would like him to bring back for them. The eldest asks for a shining tiara, the middle asks for a frame through which her face would always appear young, and the youngest (Nastenka) asks her father to bring her a beautiful scarlet flower like one which she saw in her dreams. Her elder sisters laugh at this simple wish. The father's trip is successful and he finds everything that he came for, with the exception of Nastenka's scarlet flower. Nevertheless, the ship heaves off and they begin to head back while the father scans the lands around him for a scarlet flower.

Directed by Lev Atamanov

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness(1958)

2h 38min | War, Drama
3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin, and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story.

Directed by Mark Robson - With Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Ronald Squire, Richard Wattis, Athene Seyler, ...
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The Killers(1956)

19min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 37 votes)

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, Alexandre Gordon - With Vasily Shukshin, Alexandre Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky

The Twelve Months(1956)

55min | Fantasy, Animation, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 20 votes)

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.

Directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Mikhail Botov

Fate of a Man(1959)

1h 43min | Drama, War
3.8/5 (with 26 votes)

The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory...

Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk - With Sergei Bondarchuk, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Georgy Millyar, Pavel Polunin, Pavel Volkov

Quiet Flows the Don(1957)

5h 40min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Directed by Sergei Gerasimov - With Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Danylo Ilchenko

The Adventures of Buratino(1959)

1h 7min | Kids & Family, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.

Directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Dmitriy Babichenko

The Magic Voyage of Sinbad(1953)

1h 20min | Action, Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy
2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Sadko is based on an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was based on a Russian epic tale of the same name. In the old Russian city of Novgorod, the merchants are feasting in a gorgeous palace and Sadko is bragging that he can bring to their land a sweet-voiced bird of happiness. They laugh at him, but he is offered help by the Ocean King's daughter, who is mesmerized by Sadko's singing and is in love with him. The hero is destined to visit many lands in his search of the bird. First shown in the USA in 1953 with English subtitles. This entry is for 1962 English-dub by Roger Corman's Filmgroup, which runs about 8 minutes shorter (removes much of the music) than the Russian original (see, Sadko, 1953)

Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko - With Sergei Stolyarov, Alla Larionova

The House I Live In(1957)

1h 35min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

1935. Two families — Davydov's with three children and the newlyweds Lida and Dmitri Kashirin's — enter the new house on the outskirts of Moscow into a common communal apartment. The children grow up, and they and the adults around them are looking for their place in life, looking for answers to the questions of who to be and what to be, quarreling, making peace, building relationships, destroying them. Six years later, the peaceful lives of characters, with their joys and misfortunes, quarrels and reconciliations, and complex personal relationships, are blown up by a war that connects everyone at once, forcing them to see the meaning of their days, their attitudes to each other and their life values in a different way. For some of them, war is a fatal trait.

Directed by Lev Kulidzhanov, Yakov Segel - With Vladimir Zemlyanikin, Yevgeny Matveyev, Rimma Shorokhova, Valentina Petrovna Telegina, Pavel Shalnov, Mikhail Ulyanov, ...
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Carnival Night(1956)

1h 18min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Music
3.5/5 (with 29 votes)

It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.

Directed by Eldar Ryazanov - With Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov, Georgi Kulikov, Sergey Filippov, Olga Vlasova, ...

The Forty-First(1956)

1h 28min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

Directed by Grigori Chukhrai - With Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolai Kryuchkov

Don Quixote(1957)

1h 40min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.

Directed by Grigori Kozintsev - With Nikolay Cherkasov, Bruno Freindlich, Georgy Vitsin, Serafima Birman, Vladimir Maksimov, Yuri Tolubeyev, ...

Maksim Perepelitsa(1955)

1h 34min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

Maxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.

Directed by Anatoliy Granik - With Leonid Bykov, Mykola Yakovchenko

Old Man Khottabych(1956)

1h 26min | Adventure, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

A boy named Volka discovers an ancient vessel on the bottom of a river. When he opens it, a genie emerges from there. He calls himself Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Khottab, or in Russian style Khottabych. Grateful Khottabych is ready to fulfill any of Volka's wishes. But it appears that Volka should use the powers of the genie carefully, for they can have undesirable results.

Directed by Gennady Kazansky - With Nikolay Volkov, Gennady Khudyakov

Extraordinary Accident(1958)

1h 28min | Crime
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The crew of a soviet cargo falls prey to an act of piracy in waters between China and Taiwan, and are taken to Taiwan where they are pressured into stating they chose to go into the free world.

Directed by Viktor Ivchenko - With Mikhail Kuznetsov, Oleksandr Anurov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov

The Sword and the Dragon(1956)

1h 33min | Adventure, Fantasy
2.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Paralyzed since birth, Ilya can only watch helplessly as his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler arrives with a magic elixir that restores him to full health, Ilya begins an adventure to protect the village and the royal family from harm.

Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko - With Boris Andreyev, Andrei Abrikosov, Natalya Medvedeva, Mikhail Pugovkin, Iya Arepina, Alexandra Danilova, ...

The Idiot(1958)

1h 56min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

The film is based on the first part of the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated in a psychiatric clinic. On the train, on the way to St.Petersburg, the prince meets Parfyon Rogozhin, who tells him of his passionate love for Nastasya Filippovna, the former containment woman of the millionaire Totsky. In St.Petersburg, the prince finds himself in the house of his distant relative – Lizaveta Yepanchina (General's wife), meets her husband, their daughters, as well as the Secretary of General – Ganya Ivolgin. The portrait of Nastasya Filippovna, accidentally seen on the general’s table, makes a great impression on the prince...

Directed by Ivan Pyryev - With Yury Yakovlev, Yuliya Borisova, Nikita Podgorny, Leonid Parkhomenko

Belinsky(1953)

1h 42min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it was not released until 1953, following the reshooting of various scenes demanded by Stalin.

Directed by Grigori Kozintsev - With Sergei Kurilov, Aleksandr Borisov, Georgy Vitsin, Yury Lyubimov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vladimir Chestnokov, ...

Different Fortunes(1956)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. The rejected Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city and starts working at the factory, studying at the evening institute. Sonya leaves after him and gets a job at the same factory. Tanya and Fedya, having married, go to college, and the young husband has to earn some money as a driver to support his family. The selfish nature of Tanya refuses to put up with the modest position in which the newlyweds are forced to be, and she starts an affair with an elderly composer...

Directed by Leonid Lukov - With Tatyana Piletskaya, Yulian Panich, Georgi Yumatov, Lev Sverdlin, Olga Zhizneva

Romeo & Juliet(1955)

1h 32min | Romance / Love, Music, Drama
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

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Directed by Lev Arnshtam, Leonid Lavrovsky - With Yuri Zhdanov, Galina Ulanova, Yury Zhdanov, Aleksey Yermolayev, Sergey Koren, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Lapauri, ...

Height(1957)

1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

For the construction of the plant comes a team of ironworkers, they will carry out the installation of the blast furnace according to the new method. A film about the difficult characters of ordinary Soviet people who know how to work, dream, love - to build a great human happiness.

Directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi - With Nikolay Rybnikov, Inna Makarova, Gennady Karnovich-Valua, Vasily Makarov, Marianna Strizhenova

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg(1953)

2h 3min | Action, History, Drama
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.

Directed by Sergei Yutkevich - With Akaki Khorava, Besa Imami, Semyon Sokolovsky, Marie Logoreci, Oleg Zhakov

Miles of Fire(1957)

1h 25min | Action, War, History, Adventure
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Civil War. Southern steppes of Russia. Circumstances bring together various people: the Chekist, professor, actor, nurse and White Guard officer posing as a vet. On two tachanka's they make their way into the city.

Directed by Samson Samsonov - With Ivan Savkin, Margarita Volodina, Vladimir Kenigson

True Friends(1954)

1h 42min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Story about 3 childhood friends who found each other later in life and decided to rafting on one of the Moscovian rivers.

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov - With Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Borisov, Boris Chirkov, Anatoly Dudorov

The First Echelon(1955)

1h 54min | War, Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

In one of the steppe regions of Kazakhstan arrives on Komsomol youth squad. Severe frosts, spring mud flows, exhausting work than their specialty - the development of virgin land does not come easy. But the young are young - they work, enjoy life, fall in love. In the center of the story - the touching romance secretary of the Komsomol organization and tractor driver Anne.

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov - With Vsevolod Sanayev, Oleg Yefremov, Tatiana Doronina

The Immortal Garrison(1956)

1h 38min | War, Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The Immortal Garrison is set in June of 1941, at the outset of the Nazi invasion of Russia. A group of Soviet servicemen, languidly biding their time at the Brest fortress on the Polish border, are suddenly galvanized into action. All desires to return home to their wives and sweethearts are swept aside as the courageous garrison unites to thwart a common enemy. The siege of Brest has served as story material for countless Russian films: in lieu of contradictory evidence, Immortal Garrison must be adjudged the best of these films. For its American release, Immortal Garrison was double-featured with another Soviet production, The Mexican.

Directed by Eduard Tisse, Zakhar Agranenko - With Nikolai Kryuchkov, Vladimir Yemelyanov

Attack from the Sea(1953)

1h 34min | War, Drama
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

The historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France begins aggressive wars. The Russian and allied troops freeing Italy are headed by A. V. Suvorov. The victory in the fortress of Corfu is ensured by operation of the admiral Ushakov.

Directed by Mikhail Romm - With Sergei Bondarchuk, Ivan Pereverzev, Gennadi Yudin, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Aleksey Alekseev, Vladimir Balashov, ...
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