This weekend I’d like to share two of my old Soviet favs from mid-80s. As far as I can tell they are still popular in modern Russia.

Last Year’s Snow Was Falling / Падал прошлогодний снег (1983)

Genres/Tags: Short Clay Animation
iMDB Rating: 8.4 out of 10 (based on 1518 ratings)
Director: Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Video format: YouTube
Languages: Russian Audio, English subtitles

 

Description

Surreal misadventures of a lazy drunkard with speech impediment trying to get a New Year tree on a short notice. Loosely based on folk fairy tales.

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Guest from the Future / Гостья из будущего (1985)

Genres/Tags: TV Mini-series (5 episodes)
iMDB Rating: 8.2 out of 10 (based on 1998 ratings)
Director: Pavel Arsenov
Starring: Natalya Guseva, Aleksei Fomkin, Maryana Ionesyan, Ilya Naumov
Video format: YouTube
Languages: Russian Audio, English subtitles

 

Description

A school boy finds a time machine and he helps Alisa, a scientist girl in the future, to save a mind-reading device from space pirates. Chased by the pirates and followed by Alisa he saves the device bringing it back to his own time.

PS: Absolutely not related to “Back to the Future” 🙂

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This Russian Movies Weekend won’t show you any animation. But instead you can watch Brat and Brat 2, two movies by Alexey Balabanov, which both became a cult right after their releases. I’m not a big fan of the main character/the actor, but the story and filming are really good in my opinion.

Unfortunately, though both these movies are available online in good HD quality, they lack subtitles other than Russian. So I had to make two torrents for you, with 15 languages in each of them. If you don’t see your subs language, check OpenSubtitles.org

Brother / Брат / Brat (1997)

Genres/Tags: Crime, Drama, Romance
iMDB Rating: 8.0 out of 10 (based on 14996 ratings)
Director: Aleksey Balabanov
Starring: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko
Budget: ~10.000-20.000 USD
MKV Size: 3.7 GB
Video format: h264, 1920×1080
Languages: Russian Audio, MULTi15 subtitles

 

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Description

Newly discharged from the army, Danila goes to his older brother – a gangster and a killer – to start a new life in St. Petersburg where he’s soon situated in the criminal world and asked to kill someone. There his new life starts. He meets new people, including a girl, and becomes a big fan of the rock band “Nautilus Pompillius,” but now he is a killer, and realizing killing is easier for him than living makes him understand he is going the wrong way.

Poor YouTube Video in 10 parts

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Brother 2 / Брат 2 / Brat 2 (2000)

Genres/Tags: Action, Crime, Thriller
iMDB Rating: 7.8 out of 10 (based on 10980 ratings)
Director: Aleksey Balabanov
Starring: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Makovetskiy
Budget: ~1.500.000 USD
MKV Size: 4.8 GB
Video format: h264, 1920×1080
Languages: Russian Audio, MULTi15 standalone subtitles

 

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Description

Danila Bagrov meets his army buddy Konstantin Gromov in Moscow, with whom he fought in Chechnya. The friend tells Danila about his twin brother Dmitry, who is a professional hockey player in America. However, the team owner, in cahoots with his Russian partner, has swindled the young star into an oppressive contract, allowing them to rob him blind. Several days after this conversation, Danila finds Konstantin dead. In order to straighten things out and avenge his friend, Danila goes to Chicago.

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