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1940s Russian-language Movies

Public list by WPS with 122 movies or TV shows/series

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The Third Man(1949)

NR
| 1h 45min | Thriller, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 775 votes)

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Directed by Carol Reed - With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde-White, ...
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Cinderella(1947)

1h 22min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

In the fairy kingdom live stepmother, her evil daughters — Anna and Maryana, a limp husband-forester and his daughter from his first marriage — Cinderella. The stepmother exploits the poor girl as a housekeeper. With the help of her godmother-fairy, Cinderella gets to the royal ball, where a beautiful and very kind prince falls in love with her. At midnight, the magic ends, and poor Cinderella has to return to her former life. But on the crystal shoe that Cinderella lost while fleeing the palace to the battle of the palace chimes, the prince searches for the bride.

Directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro - With Erast Garin, Faina Ranevskaya, Yanina Zhejmo, Aleksey Konsovsky, Yelena Yunger, Tamara Sezenevskaya, ...
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The Battle of Stalingrad(1949)

3h 3min | Drama, War, Action, History
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Vladimir Petrov - With Aleksei Dikiy, Maxim Strauch, Viktor Khokhryakov, Nikolay Dorokhin, Vladimir Solovyov, Yuri Tolubeyev, ...

The Young Guard(1948)

3h 9min | Drama, War
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occupation of Russia. The teens manage to outsmart the Nazis in their fight, and their activity lifts the spirits of the surviving citizens.

Directed by Sergei Gerasimov - With Inna Makarova, Nonna Mordyukova, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergei Bondarchuk

The Hunchedback Horse(1947)

57min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Animation
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

Adventures of Ivan the Fool and humpbacked horse in the world of kind magical creatures and cruel people.

Directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya

The Sky Slow-Mover(1945)

1h 18min | War, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Three pilots are best friends and good fighters. During the WWII they are taking an oath to refrain from love until the end of the War. But soon they meet three women-pilots. One by one they give up the oath, and all three fall in love.

Directed by Semyon Timoshenko - With Nikolai Kryuchkov, Vasili Merkuryev, Vasily Neshchiplenko, Tamara Alyoshina, Lyudmila Glazova, Alla Parfanyak, ...

Mysterious Island(1941)

1h 15min | Adventure, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Based on Verne's book The Mysterious Island, five POWs escape from a camp in a balloon during the Civil War and crash-land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Trying to settle with their lives they find someone is helping them.

Directed by Eduard Pentslin - With Aleksey Krasnopolsky

Story of a Real Man(1948)

1h 36min | War, Drama
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Alexey Meresyev was a fighter pilot during the war. One day he was shot down by Nazis, and because of his wounds both of his legs had to be cut off up to his knees. Because of his spirit and courage, Alexey was able to overcome his disability. He learned not only to walk on his artificial limps, but even dance and fly the plane again. Based on a real-life story.

Directed by Aleksandr Stolper - With Pavel Kadochnikov

1812(1943)

1h 35min | War, Drama, Action
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A biopic about Prince Kutuzov, the defeater of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Directed by Vladimir Petrov - With Aleksei Dikiy, Nikolay Okhlopkov, Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Gotovtsev, Nikolay Ryzhov, Semyon Mezhinsky, ...

Vassilisa the Beautiful(1940)

1h 12min | Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest brother, Ivanushka, brings home a frog from the marshes. His father finds this most curious, but what he does not know was that the frog was actually a beautiful girl named Vasilisa who was cursed by a magical serpent whom she refused to marry. Now Ivanushka must overcome tremendous obstacles to restore Vasilisa to her true form and free her from the serpent's spell.

Directed by Alexander Rou - With Sergei Stolyarov, Georgy Millyar
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Kashchey the Immortal(1944)

1h 13min | Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

A beautiful maiden, Marya Morevna, gives her prospective husband, the mighty warrior Nikita Kozhemyaka, three riddles to solve before she'll marry him. Before he can tell her the answers, the Russian land is invaded by the armies of Kashchei the Immortal, in whose footsteps death and destruction follow. Marya is abducted by Kashchei, and Nikita finds his home in ashes. Nikita meets a kindly wizard who gives him a cap of darkness. With it, the hero will find a way to save his bride and rout Kashchei.

Directed by Alexander Rou - With Georgy Millyar, Sergei Stolyarov, Aleksandr Shirshov, Galina Grigoryeva

Meeting on the Elbe(1949)

1h 44min | Drama, War
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Soviet and American soldiers are meeting on the shores of the Elbe river in Germany in 1945.

Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov - With Lyubov Orlova, Vladlen Davydov, Konstantin Nassonov, Boris Andreyev, Faina Ranevskaya, Erast Garin, ...
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The Village Teacher(1947)

1h 40min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary "People's Will" member teachers, a young woman spent her life in a village and evidenced the changes a Russian village has undergone from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to late 1940s.

Directed by Mark Donskoy - With Vera Maretskaya, Daniil Sagal, Pavel Olenev, Vladimir Belokurov, Aleksandr Zhukov, Roza Makagonova, ...

The Humpbacked Horse(1941)

1h 9min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

An old man has three sons: the elder two are considered fairly smart, while the youngest, Ivan, is considered an idiot. One day the father sends the three to find out who's been taking the hay in their fields at night. The elder brothers decide to lie hidden in a haystack, where they promptly fall asleep. Ivan, meanwhile, sits beside a birch tree and plays on his recorder. Suddenly, he sees a magnificent horse come flying out of the sky. Ivan grabs its mane and holds on as the horse tries to shake him off. Finally, the horse begs him to let her go and in return gives him two beautiful black horses and a little humpbacked horse (Konyok-gorbunok) to be his companion.

Directed by Alexander Rou - With Georgy Millyar, Pyotr Aleynikov, Lev Potyomkin, Michaił Trojanowski, Aleksandr Zhukov, Nikolay Gorlov, ...

The Stone Flower(1946)

1h 10min | Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

This remarkable film is based on P. Bazhov’s fairy tale “The Malachite Box”. Little Danila was the most inquisitive apprentice of old Prokopich, a famous stone-carving master. Years passed… Like his teacher, the grown-up Danila has learned to feel the soul of his material and became an expert in handling rare precious stones found in the Ural Mountains. One day he met the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, a fairy who ordered for herself an unusual stone flower.

Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko - With Vladimir Druzhnikov, Stepan Kayukov, Tamara Makarova, Mikhail Yanshin

The Train Goes East(1948)

1h 27min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

On the evening of May 9, 1945, when Moscow is noisily and cheerfully celebrating the Victory Day, a young girl agronomist Zina Sokolova and a sailor officer Lavrentyev meet in the compartment of the Moscow-Vladivostok train. The sailor takes the lively, direct character of the girl for windiness and frivolity. Sokolova also reacted frowningly and mockingly to the satellite. To get to know each other better, travelers are helped by nuisance: they are behind the train, and the rest of the way they are together, getting to know people and the life of the country along the way.

Directed by Yuli Raizman - With Lidiya Dranovskaya, Leonid Gallis

A Captain at Fifteen(1945)

1h 23min | Adventure, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.

Directed by Vasily Zhuravlyov - With Vsevolod Larionov, Yelena Izmaylova, Alexandr Chvylja, Osip Abdulov, Mikhail Astangov
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The Foundling(1939)

1h 8min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

A little girl is lost in Moscow and hits the road making fun (not intentionally) of everybody she meets. She'll be back home soon but she will change the life of at least one man forever...

Directed by Tatyana Lukashevich - With Rostislav Plyatt, Rina Zelyonaya, Faina Ranevskaya, Pyotr Repnin, Olga Zhizneva, Viktor Gromov, ...

Defense of Tsaritsyn(1942)

3h 8min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war.

Directed by Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev - With Mikheil Gelovani, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Mikhail Zharov, Varvara Myasnikova, Pavel Kadochnikov, Vasiliy Yakovlevich Sofronov, ...

Spring(1947)

1h 44min | Music, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.

Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov - With Lyubov Orlova, Faina Ranevskaya, Nikolay Cherkasov, Rostislav Plyatt, Tatyana Guretskaya, Jaroslav Štercl, ...

Masquerade(1941)

1h 40min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov's Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.

Directed by Sergei Gerasimov - With Emil Gal, Sergei Gerasimov, Sofia Magarill, Tamara Makarova

Yakov Sverdlov(1940)

1h 49min | History

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Sergei Yutkevich - With Nikolai Kryuchkov, Vassili Markov, Leonid Lyubashevsky, Nikolay Okhlopkov, Igor Smirnov, Stepan Kayukov, ...

The Shining Path(1940)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.

Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov - With Lyubov Orlova, Yevgeny Samoylov

Girl No. 217(1945)

1h 31min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946.

Directed by Mikhail Romm - With Yelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina, Anna Lisyanskaya, Vasily Zaychikov, Nikolai Komissarov, Heinrich Greif, Yevgeny Morgunov, ...

The Great Glinka(1946)

1h 56min | Music, History
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Lev Arnshtam - With Boris Chirkov, Valentina Serova, Vasili Merkuryev, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Klavdiya Polovikova, Kira Golovko, ...

In the Mountains of Yugoslavia(1946)

1h 25min | War
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Yugoslav farmer-turned-partisan Slavko Babić starts an uprising against the fascist Germans and their allies.

Directed by Abram Room, Eduard Tisse - With Vjekoslav Afrić, Ivan Bersenev, Bojan Stupica, Nikolay Mordvinov, Olga Zhizneva, Vsevolod Sanayev, ...

Mashenka(1942)

1h 12min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.

Directed by Yuli Raizman - With Valentina Karavayeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Vera Altayskaya, Georgy Svetlani

Air Taxi(1943)

1h 14min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

Directed by Herbert Rappaport - With Mikhail Zharov

The Star(1949)

1h 38min | Action, Drama, War
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Command of one of the Soviet divisions becomes aware of the alleged enemy counterattack. The scouts sent into the enemy's rear to refine the data returned. A new group of seven scouts, called "The Star", headed by Lieutenant lieutenant. Returning after a job, the group suddenly found with the German squad. After sending one of the scouts with a report, the lieutenant lieutenant with his friends enter into mortal combat with the enemy ...

Directed by Aleksandr Ivanov - With Anatoly Verbitsky

Two Soldiers(1943)

1h 20min | War, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A story about the friendship between two young men, two soldiers - Arkady from Odessa and Sasha from Ural.

Directed by Leonid Lukov - With Boris Andreyev, Stepan Krylov, Maxim Strauch, Yanina Zhejmo, Mark Bernes, Ivan Pereverzev, ...
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