Submissions from the Soviet Union to the Academy Awards to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film Category
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1. Izydi! (1991)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
In Russia at the turn of the century, a wealthy Jewish merchant enjoys the best of relations with his Russian neighbours, while his respected home forms the obvious social centre of the ... See full summary »
Director: Dmitriy Astrakhan | Stars: Otar Megvinetukhutsesi, Elena Anisimova, Tamari Skhirtladze, Tatyana Kuznetsova
Votes: 46
64th ACADEMY AWARDS (1991) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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2. Taxi Blues (1990)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Natalya Kolyakanova
Votes: 1,997 | Gross: $0.17M
63rd ACADEMY AWARDS (1990) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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3. Zerograd (1988)
103 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Votes: 2,564
62nd ACADEMY AWARDS (1989) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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4. The Commissar (1967)
110 min | Drama, War
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Director: Aleksandr Askoldov | Stars: Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov, Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Lyudmila Volynskaya
Votes: 1,687 | Gross: $0.39M
61st ACADEMY AWARDS (1988) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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5. Repentance (1984)
PG | 153 min | Drama
Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
Director: Tengiz Abuladze | Stars: Avtandil Makharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze, Ketevan Abuladze
Votes: 4,903 | Gross: $0.22M
60th ACADEMY AWARDS (1987) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Georgian SSR ◄◄◄
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6. Chuzhaya belaya i ryaboy (1986)
100 min | Drama
In 1946 Kazakhstan, breeding pigeons is one of the ways to escape from the grim post-war reality. When a fine white pigeon appears in the small town, teenager Ivan goes to great lengths to get it.
Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Lyudmila Saveleva, Sultan Bapov
Votes: 187
59th ACADEMY AWARDS (1986) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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7. Come and See (1985)
Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Votes: 97,286
58th ACADEMY AWARDS (1985) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Byelorussian SSR / Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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8. Wartime Romance (1983)
92 min | Drama, Romance
This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged ... See full summary »
Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Andreychenko, Inna Churikova, Ekaterina Yudina
Votes: 643
57th ACADEMY AWARDS (1984) ▓▓▓▓ Status: nominated
►►► Ukrainian SSR ◄◄◄
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9. Vassa (1983)
140 min | Drama
Ruthless millionaire Vassa Zheleznova is the head of a wealthy entrepreneurial family. She can do anything to protect its reputation, even push her husband to suicide.
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Inna Churikova, Vadim Mikhaylov, Nikolai Skorobogatov, Olga Mashnaya
Votes: 307
56th ACADEMY AWARDS (1983) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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10. Private Life (1982)
102 min | Drama
A man gets fired from his comfortable government job. He reacts as if it's the end of the world; slowly he finds things to live for. Private Life was nominated for the Academy Award in the Foreign Language Feature category.
Director: Yuli Raizman | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Iya Savvina, Irina Gubanova, Tatyana Dogileva
Votes: 260
55th ACADEMY AWARDS (1982) ▓▓▓▓ Status: nominated
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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11. O Sport, You Are Peace! (1981)
Not Rated | 149 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary showing the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982.
Directors: Yuriy Ozerov, Fyodor Khitruk, Boris Rychkov
Votes: 108
54th ACADEMY AWARDS (1981) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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12. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
PG | 150 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.
Director: Vladimir Menshov | Stars: Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov, Irina Muravyova, Aleksandr Fatyushin
Votes: 14,294 | Gross: $2.50M
53rd ACADEMY AWARDS (1980) ████ Status: won
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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13. Autumn Marathon (1979)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.
Director: Georgiy Daneliya | Stars: Oleg Basilashvili, Natalya Gundareva, Marina Neyolova, Evgeniy Leonov
Votes: 3,656
52nd ACADEMY AWARDS (1979) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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14. White Bim Black Ear (1977)
PG | 182 min | Drama
A white dog called Bim is looking for its owner. It encounters all kinds of people and situations.
Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy | Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Valentina Vladimirova, Mikhail Dadyko, Ivan Ryzhov
Votes: 2,437
51st ACADEMY AWARDS (1978) ▓▓▓▓ Status: nominated
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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15. The Ascent (1977)
111 min | Drama, War
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Votes: 10,112
50th ACADEMY AWARDS (1977) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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16. They Fought for Their Country (1975)
158 min | Drama, War
July 1942. Soviet forces are retreating in the face of a massive German onslaught towards Stalingrad. An infantry platoon is tasked with holding a vital hill in order to give their comrades time to cross the Don River and regroup.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Georgiy Burkov
Votes: 3,224
49th ACADEMY AWARDS (1976) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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17. Dersu Uzala (1975)
G | 142 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Khrulyov
Votes: 33,525
48th ACADEMY AWARDS (1975) ████ Status: won
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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18. The Fierce One (1974)
97 min | Drama
On the Kazakh steppe during the days of the Revolution a young boy raises a wolf cub.
Director: Tolomush Okeev | Stars: Kambar Valiyev, Suymenkul Chokmorov, Aliman Zhankorozova, Kargynbai Satayev
Votes: 135
47th ACADEMY AWARDS (1974) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Kirghiz SSR / Kazakh SSR ◄◄◄
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19. Osvobozhdenie: Napravlenie glavnogo udara (1971)
125 min | Drama, History, Romance
This five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.
Director: Yuriy Ozerov | Stars: Mikhail Nozhkin, Nikolay Olyalin, Mikhail Ulyanov, Larisa Golubkina
Votes: 767
46th ACADEMY AWARDS (1973) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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20. The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
PG-13 | 188 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.
Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy | Stars: Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova, Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova
Votes: 4,774
45th ACADEMY AWARDS (1972) ▓▓▓▓ Status: nominated
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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21. Tchaikovsky (1970)
Not Rated | 157 min | Biography, Drama
The life and work of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky is shown through his relationship with aristocratic art connoisseur Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck.
Director: Igor Talankin | Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov, Vladislav Strzhelchik
Votes: 487
44th ACADEMY AWARDS (1971) ▓▓▓▓ Status: nominated
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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22. The Brothers Karamazov (1969)
232 min | Drama
Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.
Directors: Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyrev, Mikhail Ulyanov | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva, Kirill Lavrov, Andrey Myagkov
Votes: 941
42nd ACADEMY AWARDS (1969) ▓▓▓▓ Status: nominated
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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23. War and Peace (1965)
GP | 393 min | Drama, Romance, War
The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Boris Zakhava
Votes: 8,346 | Gross: $0.13M
41st ACADEMY AWARDS (1968) ████ Status: won
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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24. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Votes: 39,940
36th ACADEMY AWARDS (1963) ░░░░ Status: submitted
►►► Russian SFSR ◄◄◄
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