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Originally Posted by Dowly
Only seen one Soviet-made movie so far and that was "Come and See",
liked it very much. Althought the long cuts and the platant demonizing of
the germans almost ruined it for me.
All in all, russia is one of those languages that really bugs me in movies, dunno why,
it just does.  But I have been planning on watching Stalker finally in the near
future.  |
That is a better situation in Germany, we do language dubs on all and everything. And we are very good in doing so. Often the German voices the studios choose match the actor better than the actor's natural one! Textlines in a movie most of us find extremely annoying and distracting.
And not all Soviet movies demonise the Germans, though most do - that are the ones that also hopelessly overglorify the role of the Russian soldiers. But the movies I have on mind do not explicitly center on the Germans, the war is just a background against which the story is being told. One film I remember is about a girlk on a Russian farm waiting for her love to return from the front. Simplistic and beautifully played, ordinary life, a strong and natural human touch. A rumour is heared that he got killed. She is desparate, gets over it, marries another one. Other young soldiers return, celebrate and dance with their girls by the fire. She stays by herself, but with a few shy look at a new man her life already starts to set for a new and hopeful direction, despite her sadness. Later her early love returns, alive, and finds his girl married. World collapses, world raises again. All without any Hollywood pathos or sentimentalism, but still told in a humane tone, and full of understanding for the implications of man'S imperfect ways, filmed in black-white and with calm images of the landscape and farmer's life.
It is not the famous movie "The Cranes are flying". I would really like to know what the film's title is that I mean, it touched me so intensely like only few other movies.
The bombastic battle dramas usually are not my taste, not the 40s/50s/60s Hollywood productions and not the Soviet counterparts as well. I find both very dumb.