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Top Soviet and Russian Films

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 96
2 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 174
3 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 175
4 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 236
5 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 332
6 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 354
7 Ivan the Terrible 1945 Sergei M. Eisenstein 489
8 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 592
9 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 598
10 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev 657
11 Nostalgia 1 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 808
12 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 827
13 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 852
14 I Am Cuba 2 1964 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 893
15 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 954
16 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 Grigoriy Chukhray 957
17 Dersu Uzala 3 1975 Akira Kurosawa 960
18 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 1028
19 October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 1036
20 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 1038
21 Russian Ark 3 4 5 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1218
22 Orlando 1 6 7 8 1992 Sally Potter 1278
23 War and Peace 1966 Sergey Bondarchuk 1298
24 Mother and Son 4 1997 Aleksandr Sokurov 1339
25 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1410
26 The Return 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev 1479
27 Burnt by the Sun 6 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov 1665
28 Mother 1926 Vsevolod Pudovkin 1973
29 Match Point 7 9 2005 Woody Allen 2131
30 The Red and the White 10 1967 Miklós Jancsó 2189
31 The Ascent 1977 Larissa Shepitko 2220
32 Storm over Asia 1928 Vsevolod Pudovkin 2249

1 Joint production with Italy.
2 Joint production with Cuba.
3 Joint production with Japan.
4 Joint production with Germany.
5 Joint production with Canada, Denmark, and Finland.
6 Joint production with France.
7 Joint production with the United Kingdom.
8 Joint production with the Netherlands.
9 Joint production with Ireland, Luxembourg, and the United States.
10 Joint production with Hungary.

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