The British film magazine Empire unveiled its list of the 100 greatest foreign-language films. Sergei Eisenstein's silent film Battleship Potemkin took third place.
The British film magazine Empire unveiled its list of the 100 greatest foreign-language films. Sergei Eisenstein's silent film Battleship Potemkin took third place.
Based on real events, the film dramatizing the naval mutiny in June 1905 is famous all over the world thanks to the impressive work of Eisenstein.
The work of Eisenstein has often been parodied. The central scene is the massacre of civilians on the Potemkin Steps and the baby carriage rolling down them.
Among the 100 best films are two by Andrei Tarkovsky - Solaris (№68) and a historic drama Andrei Rublev (№87).
Solaris was shot in 1972 and based on a science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem.
Photo: scene from Solaris featuring Donatas Banionis (Kris Kelvin) and Natalya Bondarchuk (Hari).
Photo: scene from Solaris featuring Donatas Banionis (Kris Kelvin) and Natalya Bondarchuk (Hari).
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The film, called a Soviet response to Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey, won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Photo: Donatas Banionis in the role of Kris Kelvin in Solaris.
Andrei Rublev is about the life a Russian painter of religious icons. The epic film, rarely shown in the Soviet Union, is divided into 8 episodes.
Photo: Anatoly Solonitsyn in the role of Andrei Rublev.
Photo: Anatoly Solonitsyn in the role of Andrei Rublev.
Come and See directed by Elem Klimov took 24th place. Set in World War Two Belarus, the film is an unflinching look at the atrocities carried out by Nazi forces.
The film is about a young man who loses his relatives within two hours and becomes a witness to mass murders.
The film, based on historic fact, took inspiration from The Khatyn Story by Ales Adamovich.
100th place was given to Night Watch (2004) based on the novel of Sergei Lukyanenko. The picture was the highest earning film in Russia, with distribution in Europe and in the United States.
The authors of the list joke that Night Watch was the result of Vampire Hunter Blade dating with a half-vampire Blade.
