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Top Soviet and Russian Films

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 65
2 Andrei Rublev 1969 Andrei Tarkovsky 200
3 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 284
4 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 363
5 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev 383
6 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 465
7 Stalker1 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 513
8 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 526
9 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 570
10 War and Peace 1967 Sergei Bondarchuk 734
11 October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 766
12 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 786
13 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 858
14 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 973
15 Burnt by the Sun2 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov 1063
16 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 Sergei Parajanov 1077
17 Dersu Uzala3 1975 Akira Kurosawa 1092
18 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 Grigori Chukhraj 1235
19 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 Sergei Parajanov 1242
20 Russian Ark1 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1477
21 The Red and the White4 1967 Miklós Jancsó 1491
22 I Am Cuba5 1964 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 1548
23 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 1736
24 Orlando6 7 1992 Sally Potter 1775
25 Storm over Asia 1928 Vsevolod Pudovkin 1798
26 Mother and Son1 1997 Aleksandr Sokurov 1910
27 Mother 1926 Vsevolod Pudovkin 1927
28 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 1948
29 Nostalgia6 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 1982
30 The Ascent 1977 Larissa Shepitko 2055
31 Childhood of Maxim Gorky 1938 Mark Donskoy 2209
32 The Asthenic Syndrome 1989 Kira Muratova 2272
33 The End of St. Petersburg 1927 Vsevolod Pudovkin 2448

1 Joint production with (West) Germany.
3 Joint production with France.
2 Joint production with Japan.
4 Joint production with Hungary.
6 Joint production with Cuba.
5 Joint production with Italy.
7 Joint production with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

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