Soviet classic movies
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There are many movies which are well-remembered and looked upon fondly in the former Soviet republics; famous lines or jokes from these movies are often quoted and some have even become a part of the Russian language as sayings and idioms. Most of these classic Soviet movies were produced by Mosfilm and other state-owned film studios.
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- Белое солнце пустыни ("Beloe solntse pustyni", "White Sun of the Desert") - one of the most loved Soviet films of all time. For more information on this type of movie, see Red Western.
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- Джентльмены Удачи ("Dzhentl'meny Udachi", "Gentlemen of Luck") - a schoolteacher played by Evgeni Leonov pretends to be crime boss Dotsent (who looks exactly like him) in order to gain information about a stolen artifact from Dotsent's two lackeys.
- Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика ("Kavkazskaya plennitsa, ili Novie priklucheniya Shurika", "Prisoner of the Caucasus, or Shurik's New Adventures")
- Иван Васильевич меняет профессию ("Ivan Vasilievich menyaet professiyu", "Ivan Vasilievich changes his profession") - a scientist's time travel machine ends up teleporting his landlord into 16th century Russia and bringing Ivan the Terrible into the present.
- Двенадцать стульев ("Dvenadtsat" stulev, "Twelve chairs") - based on the famous novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov.
- Бриллиантовая рука ("Brilliantovaya ruka", "Diamond Arm") - starring Yuri Nikulin, Anatoli Papanov, and Andrei Mironov.
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- Ирония судьбы или с легким паром ("Ironia sudby ili s legkim parom", "Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath")
- Обыкновенное чудо ("Obyknovennoe chudo", "Ordinary wonder") - a fairy-tale love story about a bear who has been transformed into a man by a wizard, and must be kissed by a princess to return to his original form.
- Семнадцать мгновений весны ("Semnadtsat mgnovenii vesny", "Seventeen Moments of Spring") - a multi-episode film about an undercover Soviet spy, "Stirlitz", in Germany during World War II. An entire type of joke, usually based on a play on words, has arisen from these movies.
- Тихий Дон (1957) ("And Quiet Flows the Don" (1957)) by Sergei Gerasimov. It's an adaptation of a Nobel prize winning novel And Quiet Flows the Don.
