Selection of films for soul rest

Film lovers in the USSR were not particularly spoiled by information about the novelties of cinema and the life of film artists. For this reason, the colorfully illustrated Soviet Screen Magazine He was very popular.





Many, including my parents, have been storing and rereading the filing for years. Photos of favorite movie actors were often cut from the magazine to decorate the walls of their apartment.

From 1957 to 1991, the editorial board of the magazine held the Best Film of the Year contest on the basis of readers’ letters. Recently, I came across a list of winners, and I have already watched a couple of films with pleasure.





I hope that our readers will find them on this list as well. favorite Soviet films And they'll spend a lot of fun minutes watching those tapes that they love, too.

Rating of Soviet films

1. "Height" (1957)
   In the same year, the magazine "Soviet Screen" began to conduct audience voting, and the first winner readers called the film "Height".
   
   
   
   According to the plot, a brigade of installers arrives for the construction of a blast furnace under the leadership of Brigadier Nikolai Pasechnik. At the construction site, Nikolai meets the wayward welder Catherine. He tries to take care of her, but they often quarrel. During the installation of equipment at high altitude, the young man breaks down and gets injured.
   
   
   
   
   
   It is interesting that in the same year the film-legend “Cranes Fly” with Alexei Batalov and Tatiana Samoilova, which received the “Golden Palm” for the first time in the history of Soviet cinema, was released in Cannes.
   
   
2. The Fate of Man (1959)
   In 1959, more than eighty films were shot in the USSR. According to the results of the audience voting, the best film of the year was the military drama “The Fate of a Man” – the adaptation of the story of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov and the directorial debut of Sergei Bondarchuk.
   
   
   
3. Hamlet (1964)
   The leader of the rental at the end of the year was a brilliant adaptation of the novel “The Living and the Dead” by Konstantin Simonov. And the rating of “Soviet Screen” was headed by “Hamlet” directed by Grigory Kozintsev with Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the role of the Danish prince, who took 21st place at the box office.
   
   
   
   Kozintsev and Smoktunovsky were awarded the Lenin Prize for this film. In 1966, the film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the category Best Foreign Language Film.
   
   It took six months to build a model of Elsinore Castle near Tallinn for the film. And now this place is called “Hamlet Rock” or “Cape Hamlet”.
   
   
4. Nobody Wanted to Die (1966)
   This year, Eldar Ryazanov’s comedy “Beware of the Car” was released on the screens of the country, but according to the results of the audience voting of the magazine “Soviet Screen”, the best film of the year was recognized as the adventure film “Nobody Wanted to Die”.
   
   
   
   The harsh drama directed by Vytautas Zhalakevichius opened a whole galaxy of brilliant Lithuanian actors who became the stars of the screen - Donatas Banionis, Regimantas Adomaitis, Juozas Budraitis.
   
   The action takes place in post-war Lithuania, where the Forest Brothers continue to fight the Soviet regime. Is it worth taking responsibility for the lives of others, does the ordinary man in the street have the right to sit aside while the passions of civil war are boiling? Is it possible to act on the principle of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?” The director tried to answer all these difficult questions.
   
   
5. We'll Live Until Monday (1968)
   It is very difficult to choose among masterpieces. In 1968, "The Diamond Arm", "Village Detective", "Golden Calf", "Dead Season" and "Live Until Monday" were published.
   
   
   
   Each of these pictures deserves first place, but readers of the Soviet Screen preferred the school history of the director Stanislav Rostotsky with Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Irina Pechernikova in the lead roles.
   
   Kind and bright film tells about 3 days in the life of history teacher Ilya Semenovich Melnikov, his former student Natalia Gorelova and several students of the 9th grade.
   
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   At the beginning of the film sounds a charming melody composer Kirill Molchanov. Interestingly, much later the writer of the film Georgy Polonsky wrote poems to her. Thus was born the piercingly sad “Crane Song”, which was not included in the film and was remembered by me in the recording of the Big Children’s Choir of Central Television (soloist Tanya Semenova).
   
   
6. The Dawns Are Quiet Here (1972)
   In 1969 in the magazine “Youth” was published the story “And the dawns are quiet...” Boris Vasiliev. Later it became one of the most popular books about the Great Patriotic War. In 1971, director Stanislav Rostotsky took up the film adaptation of the story.
   
   
   
   The film takes place in 1942 in Karelia, in the rear of our troops. In the story, Petty Officer Fedot Vaskov and five anti-aircraft gunners act to intercept German saboteurs, the possible goal of which is the Kirov railway.
   
   Vaskov's squad enters into an unequal battle with the Germans. Reinforcements do not come, and the girls die one by one, although the sergeant tries to protect them as much as possible. Wounded and almost unarmed, Vaskov captures the remaining saboteurs. Thirty years later, he and his adopted son install a memorial plaque in the area of the death of the girls.
   
   
7. "Kalina Red" (1974)
   After leaving the colony, the recidivist thief Yegor Prokudin, nicknamed Gore, decides to go to the village where his friend Lyuba lives by correspondence.
   
   
   
   Acquaintance with anyone and her family forces Egor to look at life in a new way, and he decides to tie up with his criminal past. However, the criminals, former friends of Yegor, are not going to put up with his new way of life.
   
   “Kalina Red” is the last film of Vasily Shukshin as a director and the only one shot by him on color film.
   
   
8. Irony of Fate, or With Easy Steam! (1976)
   With the plot of the main New Year's TV movie of the last 40 years, I think, it is not necessary to introduce readers. For the first time the picture was shown on January 1, 1976 at 17:45 on the first program of the CT, and on February 7 it was repeated at numerous requests of the audience.
   
   
   
   Zhenya Lukashin, as it turned out, instead of Andrey Myagkov could play Andrei Mironov, but to say on the plot that he “was not successful with women” was difficult – no one would believe. Therefore, the candidacy of Mironov had to be rejected.
   
   
9. "Office Novel" (1978)
   Lyrical comedy directed by Eldar Ryazanov, who deservedly received all 3 main awards of the magazine "Soviet Screen" (best film, actor - Andrei Myagkov, actress - Alice Freundlich).
   
   
   
   The story of an official affair of a not very beautiful and not very young boss and an ordinary worker raising two children alone, was watched in cinemas by 58 million viewers. In 1979 the film was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR.
   
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   It is hard to believe, but the words of the song “Nature has no bad weather” were written by the director and co-writer of the script Eldar Ryazanov (according to him, in that case he went through a lot of poems of famous poets, but did not find anything).
   
   
10. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
    The leader of the box office in 1980, Vladimir Menshov’s film was awarded the Oscar in the nomination “Best Foreign Language Film” and the USSR State Prize.
    
    
    
    In cinemas, the drama about the search for happiness by three friends was watched by about 84 million people, which made it the second highest-grossing Soviet films. In the first place was the first Soviet film fighter – the film “Pirates of the twentieth century” directed by Boris Durov.
    
    
    
    
    
11. You Never Dreamed (1981)
    The film is about the friendship of two teenagers, which gradually develops into love. Complicating matters is that their parents, too, once loved each other in their teenage years.
    
    
    
    When the director Ilya Frez conceived to film the story of Galina Shcherbakova “You did not dream...” in Goskino he categorically stated: “The lovers are called Roman and Julia?” Is it that your Shcherbakova thinks she's Shakespeare? That's not gonna happen! So Juliet, that is, Julia, had to be replaced by Katya.
    
    
12. Station for Two (1983)
    The film tells how the station buffetress Vera and the pianist Platon Ryabinin from Moscow met under very unusual circumstances. As a result, Vera lost her fiancé with melons, but found a beloved who soon has to go to places not so remote to serve his sentence for a crime he did not commit.
    
    
    
13. Cruel Romance (1984)
    Eldar Ryazanov shot based on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky “Bespridannitsa” one of the best films about love and loyalty, betrayal and passion. The director retained the love triangle invented by Ostrovsky, but the actions of the characters and part of the events are a script fiction of Ryazanov.
    
    
    
14. Cold Summer of the Fifty-Third (1988)
    The film was created during the “perestroika”, when our country was on the verge of great change. The time of action is 1953, the country is also waiting for changes. Stalin died, Lavrenty Beria was arrested, tens of thousands of hardened criminals were released from the camps under an amnesty.
    
    
    
    Two former political prisoners recently released from the camp fight a gang of amnesty criminals. Victory must be paid at a high price.
    
    
15. The Promised Heavens (1991)
    The most complex, controversial and multifaceted film of the genius Eldar Ryazanov about homeless people living in a city dump, was able to accommodate sadness, longing, compassion, laughter, and tenderness.
    
    
    
    Some called it the beginning of the era of the decline of creativity of the great director, but despite this, the film became a real box office hit and received a record number of statuettes “Nika”, including in the nomination “Best Film of 1991”.
    
    
    
    
    

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