It's time to bring back the challenge I started last year: Sovietember - all about Soviet cinema. From the most popular to the extremely underseen ones directed by women. From silent films to documentaries, war epics to epic romantic comedies, fairytales to animations, audiovisual poetry, Dostoevsky to Shakespeare adaptations, sci-fi to crime flicks, and even the mystery and rare folk horror entry. And this year I put even more effort into the list, making an updated version with categories and a little Soviet cinema guide you can find at the end of the text box. ♥
How to participate:
· Watch Soviet films! No watch goals here. You can refer to the categories I created below for guidance on diving…
It's time to bring back the challenge I started last year: Sovietember - all about Soviet cinema. From the most popular to the extremely underseen ones directed by women. From silent films to documentaries, war epics to epic romantic comedies, fairytales to animations, audiovisual poetry, Dostoevsky to Shakespeare adaptations, sci-fi to crime flicks, and even the mystery and rare folk horror entry. And this year I put even more effort into the list, making an updated version with categories and a little Soviet cinema guide you can find at the end of the text box. ♥
How to participate:
· Watch Soviet films! No watch goals here. You can refer to the categories I created below for guidance on diving into Soviet cinema.
· Create and share your own Sovietember watchlists in the comments, which you can easily create with the help of this curated main list, all movies on LB with 'USSR' in the production tags, the previous Sovietember list with links in the notes and lists like sakana's ☭ Soviet (Bloc) Spring 🌷
· Tag your reviews and lists with #sovietember so we can easily find and read what you wrote!
Big shoutout and thanks to the friends who helped me put together this list.
Happy Sovietember everyone! ☭
--- SOVIET CINEMA CATEGORIES/GUIDE ---
📽️ Early Soviet Cinema (1918-1945, #1-29)
- Sergei Eisenstein (#1-7) who often directed with Grigori Aleksandrov (#3-4), and Dmitriy Vasilev (#5)
- Dziga Vertov (#8-12)
- Lev Kuleshov (#13)
- Olga Preobrazhenskaya (#14)
- Esfir Shub (#15)
- Abram Room (#16-17)
- The Brumberg Sisters (#18 - Animation)
- Alexander Dovzhenko (#19-23)
- Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg (#24)
- Vsevolod Pudovkin (#25-27)
- Aleksandr Medvedkin (#28)
- Georgi & Sergei Vasilyev (#29)
🎶 Soviet Musicals (#30-37)
Examples of popular and beloved Soviet musicals!
🧜♀️ Soviet Fairytales and Literary Adaptations (#38-74)
Everything from Cinderella to The Little Mermaid, Dostoevsky to Shakespeare!
🦔 Soviet Animation
Sort by Animation as a Genre because they're spread all over the categories.
🔥 Soviet Films Directed by Women (#75-103, and in the Early Soviet Cinema category)
🎞️ Later Soviet Cinema (1945-1990, #104 onwards)
Films made post-WW2 to the end of the Soviet Union, sorted in chronological order, including films made in the entire Soviet Bloc (so, including Soviet satellite states)