Russian Movies and TV Series:

Russia is good at producing war movies and costume dramas and always has been. Also, animated films and cartoons.

The problem is that the rest of it is shit

In the Soviet era we also had great comedies, philosophical movies and some of the deeper sci-fi genre as well. But we forgot how to make all that.

flamming_python wrote:Russia is good at producing war movies and costume dramas and always has been. Also, animated films and cartoons...

Blackout (2020) and Sputnik (2020) scored spots on top 10 streaming list in USA

To The Lake (2019) hit excellent numbers and reviews on Netflix

And that's just latest batch

Sputnik (2020) especially is widely praised

flamming_python wrote:The problem is that the rest of it is shit.

According to you

Audience and critics strongly disagree

flamming_python wrote:In the Soviet era we also had great comedies, philosophical movies and some of the deeper sci-fi genre as well. But we forgot how to make all that.

All Soviet comedies were shit

Other than Tarkovsky's movies all Soviet sci-fi and philosophical movies were shit

Commies may pretend to like them and they may get airtime solely on dumb nostalgia but everyone with working brain would rather watch Limp Bizkit music video on repeat than suffer through Soviet faux artistic bullshit

PapaDragon wrote:

flamming_python wrote:Russia is good at producing war movies and costume dramas and always has been. Also, animated films and cartoons...

Blackout (2020) and Sputnik (2020) scored spots on top 10 streaming list in USA

To The Lake (2019) hit excellent numbers and reviews on Netflix

And that's just latest batch

Sputnik (2020) especially is widely praised

I heard about these. Haven't watched them yet myself

Although that they're in Netflix US's top 10 list means rather nothing to me, I can't stand 95% of the Hollywood superhero and feminist rubbish these days that constantly tops the charts.

According to you

According to who else?

All Soviet comedies were shit

100% of ex-Soviet citizens would disagree including myself

Gentlemen of Fortune, Ivan Vassilevich changes Profession, Twelve Chairs, The Golden Calf - these are all absolute classics.

Also when you speak about Soviet cinema, you should pretty much realize that the period of Soviet cinema extends up to about the early 2000s; which was when the Russian movie industry re-orientated itself to just copying Hollywood.
So from that you also get 90s films such as Peculiarities of the National Hunt; another classic comedy.

Granted there are a couple other ones which other people like but I never did, such as Diamond Arm.

George1 wrote:First movie in space?

Earlier, head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Pavel Vlasov said two crew members will stay in the orbit longer than scheduled due to Russia’s plans to shoot the first movie in space aboard the station. In his words, Novitsky will return to the Earth in the Soyuz MS-18 descent capsule, along with an actress and a film director, who will travel to space to make space-based film scenes aboard the ISS.

https://tass.com/science/1282707

Wonder where the accountants are on this film's budget eh?

Probably some state-sponsored hogwash designed to teach Russia's population about the great exploits of whatever; and to hell with the ability to do more with less, or actually making money.

Socialite and wealthy heir: adaptation of Anna Karenina will be Netflix's first original Russian project.
May 26th, 2021. Victoria Belikova, Yana Larina

Streaming service Netflix has officially announced its first original Russian-made project. The series based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina" will be released under the title "Anna K". Svetlana Khodchenkova was approved for the main role. Among the directors are Natasha Merkulova, Roman Kantor, Valery Fedorovich, Evgeny Nikishov and Alexey Chupov. Filming will take place in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and the series will be set in contemporary Russia.

The Netflix video service will release the series Anna K, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. It will be the first Russian project filmed under the auspices of the platform. The production will be carried out by the 1-2-3 Production company, which previously released such popular films as Epidemia, Dyatlov Pass, Flight, Call Center and others. The "Friend of a Druga" studio also participates in the project.

The script for the series is being worked on by Maria Mikulina (Subtle Matter) and Roman Kantor, the author of the scripts for the Silver Skates and Epidemic projects. For the first time in his career, he will act as a director along with Natasha Merkulova, Alexei Chupov, as well as Valery Fedorovich and Yevgeny Nikishov, who had a hand in creating such high-profile films as "Policeman from Rublyovka", "Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone", "Gogol. Start". Svetlana Khodchenkova will play the main role.

The action of the new film adaptation of the cult novel will unfold in modern Russian megacities - Moscow and St. Petersburg. Also, the heroes will find themselves in the harsh Russian outback. According to the plot, Anna Karenina, a socialite and the wife of the future governor of St. Petersburg, starts an affair with Alexei Vronsky, the heir to the metallurgical industry. Their love will have a devastating effect on both family and social ties of the heroes.

"The series touches upon the themes of passion and fidelity and proves the irrefutable truth - that love can lead to both freedom and death, regardless of any wealth," - says the official description of the project.

“Bringing Anna Karenina to Russia in the 21st century and presenting her to the whole world in her native language (and many others) through the amazing Netflix platform is a dream for me. Literally so, because the idea of ​​this series came to me in a dream, and since then I have not stopped following it, ”said Roman Kantor.

The series will be available on Netflix worldwide. One of the producers, Sergei Kornikhin, representing the Drugo Druha studio, says that cooperation with the platform is "A small step for our company, but a huge step for the entire film industry."

Valery Fedorovich and Evgeny Nikishov are sure that the series will interest many foreign viewers, since it is based on a classic work of great importance for world literature.

“This project will be a real challenge for us. But since the future series is based on one of the fundamental works of love in world literature, we hope that we will be able to touch the hearts of viewers around the world, from Australia to Brazil, ”the directors say.

Past film adaptations

Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina, first published in the 1870s, has been repeatedly filmed. The first attempts to master history by means of cinematography date back to the era of silent cinema. The films of the same name were released in the Russian Empire, Hungary, Italy. Later, the work continued to attract filmmakers around the world. In the mid-1930s, Anna Karenina was played by the film star Greta Garbo in the film by American director Clarence Brown. The tape won the Mussolini Cup at the Venice Film Festival.

Later, Anna was embodied by other famous artists: Vivien Leigh, Jacqueline Bisset, Sophie Marceau, Keira Knightley. The latter starred in an Oscar-winning film adaptation for her work as costume designers.

The film by Alexander Zarkhi, which premiered in 1967, was extremely popular among Soviet audiences. Anna in it was played by Tatyana Samoilova, and Vronsky - by Vasily Lanovoy. This adaptation is especially close to the literary source.

Interestingly, the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya played a secondary role in the tape. Later she performed the part of Anna Karenina in the Bolshoi Ballet.

Also among the Russian projects based on the novel are the tapes of Karen Shakhnazarov, Sergei Solovyov, Yuri Grymov. In 2019, a short film by Radda Novikova “Dark as Night. Anna Karenina "based on the script by Alexander Tsypkin (" Unprincipled "). The action, as in the upcoming Netflix movie, has been moved to modern realities. The film stars Julia Peresild, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Maxim Sukhanov, Matvey Lykov and others.

https://russian.rt.com/nopolitics/article/866078-anna-karenina-netflix

Russia should also take advantage of its large stock of Wehrmacht's Great Patriotic War leftovers for Russian-produced streaming platform war films by Netflix and alikes as a counteroffensive to some Western efforts to rewrite history.