Soviet kino thread? What are some of your favorites? I guess we can include pre-revolution Russian Empire films from the 1910's, too, though I haven't seen any.

Here's Red Snowball Tree (Кaлинa кpacнaя) a 1974 doomercore movie about a released convict who shacks up with a female pen-pal in a remote Siberian village, only to find that trouble continues to follow him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-RLbCXVvwI

It was incredibly popular in the USSR. By some measures, it was the MOST successful Soviet film within the Soviet Union, but it isn't as well-known outside the eastern bloc as other Soviet films for some reason.

>>211532398 (OP)
Alexander Nevsky. Eisenstein really was a genius and I will be eternally mad that Stalin trashed Ivan the Terrible part III.

Also some guy on youtube is the only way to watch it with a non-shitty score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9wWedSZBfE

Fuck off zigger, back to sosach you go.

>>211533007
The USSR included the Ukrainian SSR, and a lot of acclaimed Soviet films were actually made in Ukraine or by Ukrainian directors. You can't even do an exploration of 'Ukrainian cinema' without the USSR and its film industry.

>>211532398 (OP)
>doomercore
Fuck that, watch Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967), a light, colourful comedy featuring a very cute girl who kind of looks like Juliette Binoche.

>>211533345
There were a lot of Soviet comedies, lighthearted musicals, etc. Another popular one was Carnival Night / Кapнaвaльнaя нoчь, about employees at a government bureau trying to stage a new years' party where things keep going wrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrtUnWBCeI

>Sampo (Russian: Caмпo) is a 1959 Soviet–Finnish fantasy film based loosely on the events depicted in the Finnish national epic Kalevala.
>The film was foremost a Soviet Mosfilm production, Finnish film companies were reluctant to participate but Suomi-Filmi was eventually persuaded to join the production.

>>211533007
nafo faggots can't into cinema