100 Greatest Russian Language Movies (Revision Version)

[Lew]

100 Greatest Russian Language Movies

Here is my last attempt at "Russian Language" movies.
I've read about every movie and changed much from my first attempt

Give me your opinions on ranks or additions.
(Animation has it's own list below)

https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/movi ... ovies.html

1. Battleship Potemkin (1925) Director: Sergei Eisenstein
2. Man with a Movie Camera (1929, documentary) Director: Dziga Vertov
3. Stalker (1979) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
4. Andrei Rublev (1966) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Solaris (1972) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
6. The Mirror (1975) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
7. Come and See (1985) Director: Elem Klimov
8. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) Director: Sergei Eisenstein
9. Alexander Nevsky (1938) Director: Sergei Eisenstein [with Dmitri Vasilyev]
10. War and Peace (1965) Director: Sergei Bondarchuk

11. The Cranes Are Flying (1957) Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
12. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1946) Director: Sergei Eisenstein
13. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980) Director: Vladimir Menshov
14. Ivan's Childhood (1962) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
15. Earth (1930) Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
16. Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974) Director: Leonid Bykov
17. Ballad of a Soldier (1959) Director: Grigori Chukhrai
18. The Ascent (1977) Director: Larisa Shepitko
19. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928) Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
20. Gentlemen of Fortune (1971) Director: Aleksandr Seryj

21. Burnt by the Sun (1994) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
22. The Diamond Arm (1969) Director: Leonid Gaidai
23. Strike (1925) Director: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein, Ilya Kravchunovsky
24. The Return (2003) Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
25. Leviathan (2014) Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
26. Pokrov Gates (1983) Director: Mikhail Kozakov
27. Brother (1997) Director: Aleksei Balabanov
28. Heart of a Dog (1988, TV Movie) Director: Vladimir Bortko
29. Mimino (1977) Director: Georgiy Daneliya
30. Two Comrades Served (Sluzhili dva tovarishcha) (1968) Director: Yevgeni Karelov

31. My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985) Director: Aleksei German
32. The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972) Director: Stanislav Rostotsky
33. The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988) Director: Aleksandr Proshkin
34. Close to Eden (1991) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
35. Hamlet (1964) Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev
36. Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965) Director: Leonid Gaidai
37. The House I Live In (1957) Directors: Lev Kulidzhanov Yakov Segel
38. Siberiade (1979) Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
39. Trial on the Road (1986) Director: Aleksei German
40. Crime and Punishment (1970) Director: Lev Kulidzhanov

41. A Cruel Romance (1984) Director: Eldar Ryazanov
42. Autumn Marathon (1979) Director: Georgiy Daneliya
43. Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973) Director: Leonid Gaidai
44. Twenty Days Without War (1977) Director: Aleksei Germa
45. They Fought for Their Country (1975) Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
46. Tomorrow Was the War (1987) Director: Yuriy Kara
47. The Brothers Karamazov (1969) Directors: Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyrev, Mikhail Ulyanov
48. The Island (Ostrov) (2006) Director: Pavel Lungin
49. The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976, TV Movie) Director: Eldar Ryazanov
50. The Golden Calf (1968) Director: Mikhail Shvejtser

51. Twelve Chairs (1971) Director: Leonid Gaidai
52. A Railway Station for Two (1983) Director: Eldar Ryazanov
53. White Bim Black Ear (1977) Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy
54. Prisoner of the Mountains (1996) Director: Sergei Bodrov Sr.
55. Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964) Director: Georgiy Daneliya
56. The General Line (1929) Director: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, and Sergei Eisenstein
57. The Fool (2014) Director: Yuri Bykov
58. Letter Never Sent (1960) Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
59. Mother (1926, Silent) Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
60. Kin-dza-dza! (1986) Director: Georgiy Daneliya

61. The Garage (1980) Director: Eldar Ryazanov
62. The Very Same Munchhausen (1980) Director: Mark Zakharov
63. Storm Over Asia (1928, silent) Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
64. Brother 2 (2000) Director: Aleksei Balabanov
65. Love and Doves (1985) Director: Vladimir Menshov
66. The Destiny of a Man (1959) Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
67. Arsenal (1929, Silent) Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
68. Dead Man's Letters (1986) Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy
69. Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano (1977) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
70. Courier (1986) Director: Karen Shakhnazarov

71. The Girls (1962) Director: Yuriy Chulyukin
72. Afonya (1975) Director: Georgiy Daneliya
73. Khrustalev, My Car! (1998) Director: Aleksei German
74. At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
75. Office Romance (1977) Director: Eldar Ryazanov
76. Watch Out for the Automobile (1966) Director: Eldar Ryazanov
77. The Thief (1997) Director: Pavel Chukhray
78. Russian Ark (2002) Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
79. Lilya 4-Ever (2002) Director: Lukas Moodysson
80. Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967) Director: Leonid Gaidai

81. Assa (1987) Director: Sergey Solovyov
82. The Red Snowball Tree (1974) Director: Vasiliy Shukshin
83. The Idiot (1958) Director: Ivan Pyrev
84. Ten Little Indians (1987) Director: Stanislav Govorukhin
85. Farewell (1983) Director: Elem Klimov
86. Wings (1966) Director: Larisa Shepitko
87. White Sun of the Desert (1969) Director: Vladimir Motyl
88. The Italian (2005) Director: Andrey Kravchu
89. Country of the Deaf (1998) Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy
90. The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999) Director: Stanislav Govorukhin

91. Uncle Vanya (1970) Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
92. Mother and Son (1997) Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
93. Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956) Directors: Marlen Khutsiev, Feliks Mironer
94. Enchanted Desna (1964) Director: Yuliya Solntseva
95. The End of St. Petersburg (1927, silent) Directors: Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin
96. Peter the First, Part I (1937) Director: Vladimir Petrov
97. Dear Comrades! (2020) Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
98. Hard to Be a God (2013) Director: Aleksei German
99. The Barber of Siberia (1998) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
100. Arrhythmia (2017) Director: Boris Khlebnikov


Extras:

12 (2007) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
The Steamroller and the Violin (1961) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Zvenigora (1928) Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Family Relations (1982) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Viy (1967) Directors: Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko
Carnival Night (1956) Director: Eldar Ryazanov
Elena (2011) Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Mother and Sons (1938) Directors: Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Loveless (2017) Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Dying Swan (1917, silent) Director: Yevgeni Bauer
Conquest of Peter the Great (Pyotr pervyy II) (1939) Director: Vladimir Petrov
Battle for Sevastopol (2015) Director: Sergey Mokritskiy
Rasputin (1981) Director: Elem Klimov
Cargo 200 (2007) Director: Aleksei Balabanov
Adams Rib (1991) Director: Viacheslav Kryshtofovych
Beanpole (2019) Director: Kantemir Balagov
To Live! (2010) Director: Yuriy Bykov
Bumer (2003) Director: Pyotr Buslov
How I Ended This Summer (2010) Director: Alexei Popogrebsky
Harvest Time (2004) Director: Marina Razbezhkina
Moscow Laughs (1934) Director: Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Coma (2020) Director: Nikita Argunov


Top 10 Russian Animated films

The Snow Queen (1957) Director: Lev Atamanov
Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) Director: Yuri Norstein
The Scarlet Flower (1952) Director: Lev Atamanov
The Nutcracker (1973) Director: Boris Stepantsev
Once Upon a Time there Lived a Dog (1982) Director: Eduard Nazarov
The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981) Director: Roman Kachanov
Karlson Returns (1970) Director: Boris Stepantsev
The Tale of Tales (1979) Director: Yuri Norstein
The Glass of Harmonica! (1968) Director: Andrey Khrzhanovskiy
The Twelve Months (Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) (1956) Director:s Mikhail Botov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano

[ManPerson]

I'm pretty sure Stalker and Come and See are on the greatest movies list as well.

[ManPerson]

The Ascent should also be higher.

[DmitryXenon]

(After finishing I realized there were no Russian language Horror movies)

Viy (1967) might be a good choice for the list.

[DmitryXenon]

Other movies to consider are Alexei German’s "My Friend Ivan Lapshin" and "Khrustalev, My Car!" Their ratings are generally even higher than "Hard to Be a God". Alexander Sokurov's “Mother and Son” and “Russian Ark” would also be suitable.

[Lew]

Take another look.
I updated with your suggested additions and moved a few around.

[pauldrach]

I'm pretty sure Stalker and Come and See are on the greatest movies list as well.

Yes. According to that, "Stalker" should be #3 and "Come and See" should be #7 (right below "The Mirror"). Four Tarkovsky in a row and in the top 10 look a little overkill but if that's what we decided why not?

Here are the ones from the decade lists:

Pre-1920:
#78 The Dying Swan - Yevgeni Bauer (1917)
#84 Twilight of a Woman's Soul - Yevgeni Bauer (1913)
#94 The Cameraman's Revenge - Ladislas Starevich (1912) - Animated
#144 After Death - Yevgeni Bauer (1915)
#165 The Queen of Spades - Yakov Protazanov (1916)
#185 The Beautiful Leukanida - Ladislas Starevich (1912) - Animated
#231 Defence of Sevastopol - Aleksandr Khanzhonkov & Vasily Goncharov (1911)

1920s:
#1 Battleship Potemkin - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1925)
#8 Man with a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov (1929)
#37 Strike - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1925)
#56 October: Ten Days That Shook the World - Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Alexandrov (1928)
#88 Mother - Vsevolod Pudovkin (1926)
#101 Storm over Asia - Vsevolod Pudovkin (1928)
#122 Arsenal - Alexander Dovzhenko (1929)
#136 The End of St. Petersburg - Vsevolod Pudovkin & Mikhail Doller (1927)
#141 Kino Eye - Dziga Vertov (1924)
#143 Aelita - Yakov Protazanov (1924)
#171 The General Line - Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Alexandrov (1929)
#175 By the Law - Lev Kuleshov (1926)
#179 The Girl with the Hat Box - Boris Barnet (1927)
#188 Zvenigora - Alexander Dovzhenko (1928)
#189 The New Babylon - Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg (1929)
#218 Chess Fever - Vsevolod Pudovkin & Nikolai Shpikovsky (1925)
#239 The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks - Lev Kuleshov (1924)
#246 Bed and Sofa - Abram Room (1927)

1930s:
#43 Alexander Nevsky - Sergei M. Eisenstein & Dmitriy Vasilyev (1938)
#66 Earth - Alexander Dovzhenko (1930)
#182 Chapayev - Georgi & Sergei Vasilyev (1934)
#186 The Childhood of Maxim Gorky - Mark Donskoy (1938)
#189 By the Bluest of Seas - Boris Barnet (1936)

1940s:
#47 Ivan the Terrible, Part I - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1944)
#61 Ivan the Terrible, Part II - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1946)

1950s:
#97 The Cranes Are Flying - Mikhail Kalatozov (1957)
#154 Ballad of a Soldier - Grigory Chukhray (1959)
#241 The Snow Queen - Lev Atamanov (1957) - Animated

1960s:
#35 Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky (1966)
#97 War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky - Sergei Bondarchuk (1965)
#106 Ivan's Childhood - Andrei Tarkovsky (1962)
[#112 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Sergei Parajanov (1965)] - Ukrainian
[#118 The Color of Pomegranates - Sergei Parajanov (1969)] - Armenian
#183 The Diamond Arm - Leonid Gaidai (1969)
#227 I Am Cuba - Mikhail Kalatozov (1964)

1970s:
#22 Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
#47 Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
#53 The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)
#135 The Ascent - Larisa Shepitko (1977)
#136 Tale of Tales - Yuri Norstein (1979) - Animated

1980s:
#40 Come and See - Elem Klimov (1985)
#141 Nostalghia - Andrei Tarkovsky (1983)

1990s:
#197 Burnt by the Sun - Nikita Mikhalkov (1994)
#206 Mother and Son - Alexander Sokurov (1997)

2000s:
#87 Russian Ark - Alexander Sokurov (2002)
#98 The Return - Andrey Zvyagintsev (2003)

2010s:
#79 Leviathan - Andrey Zvyagintsev (2014)

Additional films in my yearly lists:

#12 Child of the Big City - Yevgeni Bauer (1914)
#16 A Life for a Life - Yevgeni Bauer (1916)
#16 Father Sergius - Yakov Protazanov & Alexandre Volkoff (1918)
#17 Stenka Razin - Vladimir Romashkov (1908)
#17 Daydreams - Yevgeni Bauer (1915)
#17 For Happiness - Yevgeni Bauer (1917)
#19 The Insects' Christmas - Ladislas Starevich (1913) - Animated
#19 Jolly Fellows - Grigori Alexandrov (1934)
#20 Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent - Pyotr Chardynin (1918)
#22 Engineer Prite's Project - Lev Kuleshov (1918)
#22 Loveless - Andrey Zvyagintsev (2017)
#24 1812 - Vasily Goncharov, Kai Hansen & Aleksander Uralsky (1912)
#24 Repentance - Tengiz Abuladze (1984)
#26 Anniversary of the Revolution - Dziga Vertov (1918)
#28 A Sixth Part of the World - Dziga Vertov (1926)
#28 Carnival Night - Eldar Ryazanov (1956)
#28 Gentlemen of Fortune - Aleksander Sery (1971)
#29 Okraina - Boris Barnet (1933)
#29 The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! - Eldar Ryazanov (1975)
#30 Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures - Leonid Gaidai (1965)
#30 The Asthenic Syndrome - Kira Muratova (1989)
#31 The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty - Esfir Shub (1927)
#31 The Red Snowball Tree - Vasily Shukshin (1974)
#32 The Queen of Spades - Pyotr Chardynin (1910)
#32 Enthusiasm - Dziga Vertov (1930)
#32 White Sun of the Desert - Vladimir Motyl (1970)
#32 Close to Eden - Nikita Mikhalkov (1991)
#33 Alone - Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg (1931)
#33 Kidnapping, Caucasian Style - Leonid Gaidai (1967)
#34 The Grasshopper and the Ant - Ladislas Starevich (1913) - Animated
#34 Afonya - Georgiy Daneliya (1975)
#34 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears - Vladimir Menshov (1980)
#35 Princess Tarakanova - Kai Hansen & Maurice Maître (1910)
#35 Salt for Svanetia - Mikhail Kalatozov (1930)
[#35 Tangerines - Zaza Urushadze (2013) - Estonian/Georgian]
#36 Miss Mend - Boris Barnet & Fedor Ozep (1926)
#36 Women of Ryazan - Olga Preobrazhenskaya & Ivan Pravov (1927)
#36 Road to Life - Nikolai Ekk (1931)
#36 Volga-Volga - Grigori Alexandrov (1938)
#36 Amphibian Man - Vladimir Chebotaryov & Gennadi Kazansky (1961)
#37 Mirazhi - Pyotr Chardynin (1916)
#37 The House on Trubnaya - Boris Barnet (1928)
#37 Prisoner of the Mountains - Sergei Bodrov (1996)
#38 The Night Before Christmas - Ladislas Starevich (1913)
#38 My Friend Ivan Lapshin - Aleksei German, Sr. (1985)
#39 Satan Triumphant - Yakov Protazanov (1917)
#39 War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova - Sergei Bondarchuk (1966)
#40 Kino-pravda No. 1 - Dziga Vertov (1922)
#40 Interplanetary Revolution - Nikolai Khodataev, Zenon Komissarenko & Yuri Merkulov (1924)
#40 The Club of the Big Deed - Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg (1927)
#40 Winnie-the-Pooh - Fyodor Khitruk (1969) - Animated
#41 The Humpbacked Horse - Alexander Rou (1947)
#41 War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 - Sergei Bondarchuk (1967)
#42 The Blue Express - Ilya Trauberg (1929)
#42 Hedgehog in the Fog - Yuri Norstein (1975) - Animated
#43 Rusalka - Vasily Goncharov (1910)
#44 The Lady and the Hooligan - Vladimir Mayakovsky & Yevgeni Slavinsky (1918)
#44 I Am Twenty - Marlen Khutsiev (1965)
#44 Siberiade - Andrei Konchalovsky (1979)
#45 The New Gulliver - Aleksander Ptushko (1935) - Animated
#45 Spring on Zarechnaya Street - Marlen Khutsiev & Feliks Mironer (1956)
#45 Hamlet - Grigori Kozintsev (1964)
#45 Office Romance - Eldar Ryazanov (1977)
#46 Romance with Double-Bass - Kai Hansen (1911)
#46 The Overcoat - Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg (1926)
#46 The Dawns Here Are Quiet - Stanislav Rostotsky (1972)
#47 Children of the Age - Yevgeni Bauer (1915)
#47 Beware of the Car - Eldar Ryazanov (1966)
#47 Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future - Leonid Gaidai (1973)
#47 Dark Eyes - Nikita Mikhalkov (1987)
#47 Lilya-4-Ever - Lukas Moodysson (2002)
#48 The Little House in Kolomna - Pyotr Chardynin (1913)
#48 The Death Ray - Lev Kuleshov (1925)
#48 The Girls - Yuri Chulyukin (1962)
#48 Brother - Aleksei Balabanov (1997)
#49 Fate of a Man - Sergei Bondarchuk (1959)
#50 Happiness - Aleksander Medvedkin (1935)
#50 Cinderella - Nadezhda Kosheverova & Mikhail Shapiro (1947)
#50 Freeze Die Come to Life - Vitali Kanevsky (1990)
#51 Uncle's Apartment - Yevgeni Bauer & Pyotr Chardynin (1913)
#51 Revolutionary - Yevgeni Bauer (1917)
#51 Soviet Toys - Dziga Vertov (1924)
#51 Striped Trip - Vladimir Fetin (1961)
#51 Dear Comrades! - Andrei Konchalovsky (2020)
#52 The Lily of Belgium - Ladislas Starevich (1915)
[#52 My Grandmother - Kote Mikaberidze (1929)] - Georgian
#52 An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano - Nikita Mikhalkov (1977)
#53 Glumov's Diary - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1923)
#53 Vasilisa the Beautiful - Alexander Rou (1940)
#53 Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia - Eldar Ryazanov & Franco Prosperi (1974)
#54 The Bremen Town Musicians - Inessa Kovalevskaya (1969) - Animated
#54 Assa - Sergei Solovyov (1987)
#54 Taxi Blues - Pavel Lungin (1990)
#55 Departure of a Grand Old Man - Yakov Protazanov & Elizaveta Thiman (1912)
#55 And Quiet Flows the Don - Sergei Gerasimov (1957)
#55 Welcome, or No Trespassing - Elem Klimov (1964)
#55 The Sun - Alexander Sokurov (2005)
#56 The Eleventh Year - Dziga Vertov (1927)
#56 War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov - Sergei Bondarchuk (1967)
#56 Waterloo - Sergei Bondarchuk (1970)
#58 The Portrait - Ladislas Starevich (1915)
#58 Letter Never Sent - Mikhail Kalatozov (1960)
#58 They Fought for Their Country - Sergei Bondarchuk (1975)
#59 Fragment of an Empire - Fridrikh Ermler (1929)
#59 Peter the First, Part I - Vladimir Petrov (1937)
#59 Ordinary Fascism - Mikhail Romm (1965)
#59 Mimino - Georgiy Daneliya (1977)
[#60 Once upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird - Otar Iosseliani - Georgian]
#61 Viy - Konstantin Ershov & Georgy Kropachyov (1967)
#62 Silent Witnesses - Yevgeni Bauer (1914)
#62 In Spring - Mikhail Kaufman (1929)
#62 Wings - Larisa Shepitko (1966)
[#62 The Seasons - Artavazd Peleshyan (1975) - Armenian]
#63 Spring - Grigori Alexandrov (1947)
#63 The Lady with the Dog - Iosif Kheifits (1960)
#64 Kin-dza-dza! - Georgiy Daneliya (1986)
#65 Tractor Drivers - Ivan Pyryev (1939)
#65 Walking the Streets of Moscow - Georgiy Daneliya (1964)
#65 The Thief - Pavel Chukhray (1997)
#65 12 - Nikita Mikhalkov (2007)
#66 At Home Among Strangers, Stranger at Home - Nikita Mikhalkov (1974)
#66 White Bim Black Ear - Stanislav Rostotsky (1977)
#67 Forward, Soviet! - Dziga Vertov (1926)
#67 Turksib - Victor A. Turin (1929)
#67 Whispering Pages - Alexander Sokurov (1994)
#68 Kino-pravda No. 21: Leninskaia Kino-pravda. Kinopoema o Lenine - Dziga Vertov (1925)
#68 Rainbow - Mark Donskoy (1944)
#68 The Second Circle - Alexander Sokurov (1990)
#70 Night Watch - Timur Bekmambetov (2004)
#71 True Friends - Mikhail Kalatozov (1954)
#71 Days of Eclipse - Alexander Sokurov (1988)
#72 Peter the First, Part II - Vladimir Petrov (1938)
#73 The Night Before Christmas - Alexander Rou (1961)
#74 Only Old Men Are Going to Battle - Leonid Bykov (1974)
#75 Aerograd - Alexander Dovzhenko (1935)
#75 Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship - Mark Donskoy (1939)
#75 Twelve Chairs - Leonid Gaidai (1971)
#77 Jack Frost - Alexander Rou (1965)
#78 Three Songs About Lenin - Dziga Vertov (1934)
#79 Gorky 3: My Universities - Mark Donskoy (1940)
#79 The Fall of Berlin - Mikheil Chiaureli (1950)
#80 Nail in the Boot - Mikhail Kalatozov (1931)
#80 The House I Live In - Lev Kulidzhanov & Yakov Segel (1957)
#80 The Long Farewell - Kira Muratova (1971)
#81 The Youth of Maxim - Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg (1935)
#81 The Golden Calf - Mikhail Schweitzer (1968)
#81 King Lear - Grigori Kozintsev & Iosif Shapiro (1971)
#82 Deserter - Vsevolod Pudovkin (1933)
#85 Ivan - Alexander Dovzhenko (1932)
#87 The Steamroller and the Violin - Andrei Tarkovsky (1961)
#88 Father of a Soldier - Rezo Chkheidze (1964)
#93 The Great Consoler - Lev Kuleshov (1933)

Films in brackets are probably nor eligible. I'm unsure about some others but left them in for now if Wikipedia said that Russian was at least among the spoken languages.

[pauldrach]

49. Who Is Prince Oak Oakleyski (2022, documentary) Director: I. Kolyada, and Prince Oak Oakleyski

This is the problem with using IMDb charts unreviewed. 9.6/10 from 75 ratings. Shouldn't be anywhere near any list.

[Lew]

Take another look.
I've made many changes from my first attempt.
Give me your thoughts.
The webpage is ready to post.
Thanks

[DmitryXenon]

“At Home Among Strangers” is a far more significant and acclaimed work by Mikhalkov than “12”. “Barber of Siberia” seems overrated; it marked the beginning of Mikhalkov's artistic decline. “The Steamroller and the Violin” is simply Tarkovsky's graduation film and is relatively little-known outside circles of scholars and enthusiasts of his work. I don't think it's essential to include it on the list.

[DmitryXenon]

Hi Lew! Thanks for putting the list together. I went through the published version and noticed quite a few typos and a few factual inaccuracies. I thought I'd point them out so they can be corrected.

Misspelled names:

#3 - Stalker: Nikolay Grink → Nikolay Grinko

#28 - Heart of a Dog: Evgeniy Evstignee → Evgeniy Evstigneev

#44 - Twenty Days Without War: Aleksei Germa → Aleksei German

#72 - Afonya: Leonid Kuravlyo → Leonid Kuravlyov

#74 - At Home Among Strangers: Anatoliy Solonitsy → Anatoliy Solonitsyn

#90 - The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment: Irina Rozanov → Irina Rozanova

Other spelling and transliteration errors:

#3 - Stalker: "Сталкер (stóker)" → "Сталкер (Stalker)"

#5 - Solaris: "giong insane" → "going insane"

#26 - Pokrov Gates: "apatment" → "apartment"

#37 - The House I Live In: "appartment" → "apartment"

#47 - The Brothers Karamazov: "Dostoeyevsky's" → "Dostoevsky's"

#60 - Kin-dza-dza!: The original Russian title should be "Кин-дза-дза!", not "Кин-Дза-Дза!"

#64 - Brother 2: "Vengence" → "Vengeance"

#67 - Arsenal: "arsenál" → "Arsenal"

#68 - Dead Man's Letters: "Sci-F" → "Sci-Fi"

#81 - Assa: "Асса (Асса)" → "Асса (Assa)"

#89 - Country of the Deaf: "boyfriens's" → "boyfriend's"

#96 - Peter the First: "Pyotr pervyy I" → "Pyotr Pervyy" (the Roman numeral is redundant).

Cast, director credits and descriptions:

#6 - The Mirror: Ignat Daniltsev is listed twice. One instance could be replaced with Oleg Yankovskiy or Nikolay Grinko.

#14 - Ivan's Childhood: Eduard Abalov shouldn't be credited as co-director alongside Andrei Tarkovsky. Abalov worked on an earlier, abandoned version of the project, while the completed film was directed by Tarkovsky alone.

#54 - Prisoner of the Mountains: Susanna Mekhraliyeva is listed twice. One instance could be replaced with Dzhemal Sikharulidze.

#58 - Letter Never Sent: The director is Mikhail Kalatozov, not Mikheil Kalatozishvili. These are two different filmmakers.

#61 - The Garage: The cast selection seems rather unusual, since it mainly features actors in minor roles. Liya Akhedzhakova, Valentin Gaft, Iya Savvina and Andrey Myagkov would be much more representative choices.

#70 - Courier: "Romance during the fall of communism" seems misleading. I'd suggest changing it to "Romance during the early years of perestroika", which would be more historically accurate.

#74 - At Home Among Strangers: The description mentions the Civil War and 1917, but the story actually takes place in the early 1920s, after the Civil War.

#81 - Assa: The cast list omits the three main actors: Sergei Bugaev, Tatyana Drubich and Stanislav Govorukhin. Viktor Tsoi would also be a more representative choice.

#90 - The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment: The protagonist is avenging the rape of his granddaughter, not his daughter.

Animated films:

#6 - The Mystery of the Third Planet: The original 1981 film was directed by Roman Kachanov alone. Glenn Stanton shouldn't be listed as a co-director.

One final suggestion regarding the ranking itself:

I'd suggest replacing Żuławski's Boris Godunov (1989) at #35 with Kozintsev's Hamlet (1964). Kozintsev's Hamlet is one of the most famous and critically acclaimed film adaptations of Shakespeare's play, both in Russia and internationally. Żuławski's Boris Godunov, on the other hand, received a lot of criticism and remains relatively obscure, both in Russia and abroad. I think Hamlet would be a much better choice.

[Lew]

Thanks DmitryXenon

I've made your corrections.
If you find any more or think something should be moved or added let me know.

On a side note:
I was hoping Yandex (Russia's Google) would index this list and our rankings and pass them on to wikipedia.ru where there are already many links to ddd lists. That's why I added the Cyrillic script titles. I thought that might help.

But since I began this list the Yandex data centers have been badly damaged. (And that's a good thing!)
But unlucky timing on my part.