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Top Soviet and Russian Films

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 74
2 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 236
3 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 296
4 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 377
5 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 407
6 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 453
7 Stalker1 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 509
8 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev 523
9 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 552
10 October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 839
11 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 887
12 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 930
13 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 Grigori Chukhraj 997
14 War and Peace 1967 Sergei Bondarchuk 1019
15 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 1086
16 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 Sergei Parajanov 1121
17 I Am Cuba2 1968 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 1159
18 Dersu Uzala3 1975 Akira Kurosawa 1194
19 Burnt by the Sun4 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov 1244
20 Mother and Son1 1997 Aleksandr Sokurov 1471
21 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 1476
22 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1551
23 Russian Ark1 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1566
24 Nostalgia5 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 1675
25 Orlando4 5 6 1992 Sally Potter 1748
26 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 1873
27 The Red and the White7 1968 Miklós Jancsó 1933
28 Storm over Asia 1928 Vsevolod Pudovkin 1992
29 Mother 1926 Vsevolod Pudovkin 2133
30 The Return 2003 Andrei Zvyagintsev 2234

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

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