Totally filled with famous quotes.Īgain, all three of these are available as DVDs with very good video/audio remastering, and feature both English and Russian subtitling. Romantic comedy in which a Moscow guy gets roaring drunk, accidentally takes a flight to Leningrad, and discovers that, in an amazing coincidence, the key to his Moscow flat fits the door of a Leningrad apartment owned by a beautiful young woman who's not quite happy with her fiancé. Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром! (1976, made for TV) - 'The Irony of Fate, or, Have a Nice Bath!' - sometimes called 'The Soviet A Christmas Story', not because the stories are similar but because movies gradually became modern classics by being shown constantly on TV during the Christmas/New Year season. Based on a play by Mikhail Bulgakov of Master and Margarita fame, and added at least two classic songs to the repertoire of Soviet/Russian pop-music. Иван Васильевич меняет профессию (1973) - Literally, 'Ivan Vasilevich changes his career,' though it's sometimes sold in English as 'Ivan Vasilevich: Back to the Future.' Delightful comedy/fantasy/sci-fi that mixes time-travel with the 'identical cousins' premise of 'The Parent Trap' (one actor playing two look-alike people). (The horrible demon of the title, Viy, is actually rather silly looking - but a few of the 'minor demons' are truly hideous, and the evil young witch Pannochka resembles a scary/beautiful combination of Samara from The Ring and Morticia from The Addams Family.)

Вий (1967) - Also found under the English title 'Spirit of Evil' - though I'd argue that a more accurate translation might be 'The All-Seeing Demon' or 'Eyelash-zilla'! Famous as the first 'horror' film in the USSR, but today it seems more campy than frightening. I can recommend a few classic Soviet films that are available on DVD with English and Russian subtitles, and the DVDs are very easy to find on Amazon and other sites: In other words, they were created as a kludge/workaround for the problem that Russian-made DVDs hardly ever have subtitles in Russian, and Russian TV hardly ever have closed-captioning for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. The 'time-codes' here (such as 00:31:06,900 -> 00:31:11,820) suggest to me that these 'subtitles' are intended to be added manually to bootleg/'ripped' video files, such as you might download from YouTube.

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